 William Simmons devotes a whole section of his 2011 text on human rights ("Human Rights Law and the Marginalized Other") to a critique of Arendt's position and in particular on Little Rock.While a number of critics feel she was fundamentally racist, many of those who have defended Arendt's position have pointed out that her concerns were for the welfare of the children, a position she maintained throughout her life.She felt that the children were being subjected to trauma in order to serve a broader political strategy of forcible integration.