words are cheap but i don't think any public commitment to a moral or ethical stance should be immediately disregarded as disingenuous or not valuable
how many of us have felt the cautious relief of eyeing, like, an 'LGBT ALLY' or 'BLM' on a laptop sticker amidst a sea of 100% white male-passin people
perhaps i should get a kanteen and a bunch of stickers...
hollyhoppet wrote
i've of two minds of this because sometimes people will say they support you but when shit hits the fan they're nowhere to be found. on the other hand i do feel safer when i see validating messaging
that said i can really only speak to lgbt positive messaging, not on how it feels to see BLM stuff around.
the other thing that's weird to me is "virtue signalling" used to be reserved for reactionaries dunking on people saying "hey don't be a bigot." maybe it's just because getting older is making me slower to respond to change but the phrase still leaves a pretty bad taste in my mouth