And there is nothing wrong with 'virtue signaling': Decent, civilized behavior should be promoted, and reactionary, backwards behavior should be derided. Otherwise the society cannot find its balance, and ends up promoting reactionaries who openly declare that they want to take the society 200 years back. Like what happened in Texas about abortion, making people snitch on other people for abortion - real big brother stuff.
I would take an extreme woke over the mildest conservative any day. The former doesnt want to take me to 200 years back in time.
Performative virtue signaling, as practiced in the US is wrong IMO. It is aimed at extracting social approval out of like-minded peers without effecting any positive change. Indeed it's getting to the point where _the mere absence_ of virtue signaling behavior draws reprisals and Twitter lynch mobs. Virtue under the barrel of a gun is not virtue at all.
Moreover, negative change is occurring: murders are up nationwide last year due to "abolishing police" in lower income neighborhoods and releasing repeat criminals from jail "on their own recognizance", a dozen times in a row. Black on black violence is a topic that can't even be raised on the left, and yet it affects both blacks and whites disproportionately. Why is that? Because it needs heavy police enforcement to combat it. A gangbanger couldn't care less about your "social worker".
I would take an extreme woke over the mildest conservative any day. The former doesnt want to take me to 200 years back in time.