Someone Like Patricia Williams

Patricia J. Williams is, without a doubt, radical. Does that mean something? I think it does. I do not mean that in a negative way, but positive. In short, we need someone like her who says, "laughing purposefully at what is hurtful seems somehow related to a first lesson in the skill of staged humiliation" (Williams, 167). She is thoroughly logical, articulate, passionate, and persistent. Quality like that matters to us because we basically need both those who persist no matter what and those who compromise. She is on the spectrum of those who argue hard and do not give in. She does not compromise for the sake of what ought to be done accordingly to her conviction. I mean, what happens to the world where only people we have are who discuss and compromise, and do not persist? Things wouldn't improve in the desirable direction. As much as we need those who stand for conventional norms of what is right and wrong to "hold back," we need those who stand for critical and radical understanding of conventional norms, which have been consciously and subconsciously constructed and perpetuated in society through the course of history because that is how we find out and fix what actually is not of what seems to be. I think that's what Williams is doing.