Inspired by this post about Vampire The Masquerade

      • Goatboy@lemmy.todaydeleted by creator
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        Lol no. These people rarely have empathy for anyone but themselves.

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          Exactly. White collar, upwardly mobile women (usually white) trying to accrue social credit for themselves to preen for other similarly minded women with no real desire to make anything materially better for anyone else.

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            Can’t count the number of times I’ve had “allies” try to call me out for speaking about my own experience. Identity politics is a cancer.

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      Even though we usually talk about it in a derogatory way, virtue signaling is not inherently bad. A shirt that says “trans rights are human rights” is virtue signaling, but the performance is in itself beneficial to society, even if the wearer is only doing it to feel trendy and special.

      What they accomplished with this is hostility to bigots who might otherwise have felt welcome.