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What is wrong with signalling virtue?

The emphasis is on vapid. Do you really not understand why people respond negatively to someone interjecting with some hardly-relevant comment just to make themselves look good?

you said that volume =/= value. To me it seems you don’t like when people try to be social and expressive, at least around certain topics.

That was specifically about you saying that you had "given a lot". Just because it's "a lot" doesn't mean it's valuable.

You haven’t elaborated on what racial injustice looks like to you, you’re just gate keeping other people’s definitions.

Actually I haven't done either. Because it's not particularly relevant to my point.

Those other definitions of racial injustice are vapid

I didn't say the definition was vapid. I said the act was vapid. Again, a wall of text about something I didn't say or do.

Please elaborate on who the victims are of that comment you originally responded to.

Again: at best, the people who have to rifle through those inane comments, and at worst, the people who's actual problems are diminished because the signal-to-noise ratio is out of whack.

It's very simple: I was calling out the person I replied to for having a kneejerk reaction to seeing an article where a black person was arrested.

At best it's vapid virtue-signaling, at worst it diminishes the real examples of systemic racial injustice that happen all too often.

You then chose to jump in, assume my views, and then chastise your own assumptions about me.

Of course I'm going to defensively insist that you point out examples of what you're accusing me of. Why should I bother engaging with all your strawmen?