Comments on: The politics of compromise http://wanderlustwithrhonda.com/2007/07/09/the-politics-of-compromise/ A coast to coast exploration of politics, sex, and reproductive health care Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:54:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: nini http://wanderlustwithrhonda.com/2007/07/09/the-politics-of-compromise/#comment-118 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:01:59 +0000 http://wanderlustwithnora.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/the-politics-of-compromise/#comment-118 That book is great! I’ll leave it for you in the apartment if you want! :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://wanderlustwithrhonda.com/2007/07/09/the-politics-of-compromise/#comment-117 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:36:09 +0000 http://wanderlustwithnora.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/the-politics-of-compromise/#comment-117 In my opinion, it’s helpful to always keep in mind the distinction between those individuals who actually achieve tangible change in the real world, and those individuals who instead content themselves with merely developing abstract theory, jargon, and other forms of “critique” around the individuals in the former category.

If you had to choose which of those two categories to be in, my guess is that you’d choose the former.

So, whenever you’re in doubt, I’d advise you to read the biographies of the people in the former category, and use as your touchstone the following: whenever I feel like I’m doing the right thing, I’m probably on the right track, and whenever I feel more worried about what well-meaning critics will say, then I’m probably on the wrong track.

If an idea is good, and will benefit peoples’ lives, then it can probably be expressed without abstraction and without jargon, and it surely will have no basis in the color of your skin.

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