I stumbled across this article via Twitter. It makes the argument that confrontation is compassion when you are confronting issues like oppression and exploitation. This raises an important question; does compassion mean feeling compassion universally (as the Dalai Lama teaches) toward everyone, including those who exploit and oppress others?  Or does it mean standing up in to tyranny (perhaps more like Gandhi or Martin Luther King Jr.)?

Here's the article.  Let me know what you think:

http://www.ronnadetrick.com/confrontational-compassion/