It is also what the philosopher Jill Stauffer calls “ethical loneliness” in her book of the same title, about what she calls the “injustice of not being heard.” Ethical loneliness is what happens when wrongs are compounded by going cruelly unacknowledged. The term speaks to the special pain of being part of a silenced group, and the pain you feel when the possibility of communication disappears simply because of your identity. The loneliness is profound.
