If We Lived in a Society and World More in Line

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The Answer is Generally speaking, Walzer, Singer, Rawls, Pogge, and others who can be read in Chapter 7 argue for radical egalitarian, social, political and economic structures for the world's societies. While Hooks pays special attention to women, particularly poor women, if we gave sufficient attention to our social, political, and economic institutions, equality, fairness, and justice would be present to such a degree that special attention would not need to be paid to categories of people, whether ethnic minorities, women, or others. The same truth applies to questions about affirmative action; we may say that just insofar as society is moral, no special attention needs to be given to categories of people (excluding those who suffer disadvantages which are not diminished by universal remedy, for instance the physically handicapped). Of course, the writers above agree with Hooks in this: insofar as categories of people (like poor women, women of color) suffer disadvantages greater than most others by comparison, we need to make a particular effort to ameliorate their suffering, oppression, domination, and disadvantage.

If We Lived in a Society and World More in Line

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