This condemnation of human suffering must happen so that we can protect the intellectual coherence needed in order to help others comprehend the critical difference between studying hunger as anthropological tourists and experiencing it, between deploring violence and surviving it, and between the false benevolence of “giving voice” and being institutionally forced into voicelessness. Thus, the pseudo-critical educators who proclaim the need to “give” people of color or women a voice, fail to realize that voice is not a gift. It is a democratic right. It is a human right.
