Rebecca Solnit writes for TomDispatch that,
So here I want to lay out an insanely obvious principle that apparently needs clarification. There are bad things and they are bad. There are good things and they are good, even though the bad things are bad. The mentioning of something good does not require the automatic assertion of a bad thing.[1]
- [1]Rebecca Solnit, “The Rain on Our Parade: Letter to My Dismal Allies,” TomDispatch, September 27, 2012, http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175598/tomgram%3A_rebecca_solnit%2C_we_could_be_heroes↩