I Hate You Because

 Right wing shit bags would have you believe that virtue signaling means " the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one's good character or the moral correctness of one's position on a particular issue." In other words "you're just saying that to look good" dressed up in some sad sack pseudo-intellectual drivel that makes a neckbeard feel like Ben Shatpiro. Bullshit. It means assuming someone is a hypocrite because the speaker is certain that everyone is just as big a piece of shit as they are. It is a slur coined by people so devoid of human feeling that they simply cannot imagine another person doing anything, even expressing any position, for any reason other than naked ambition. Of course it is a new neologism, because the sorts of people who make up these terms have never read anything older than this weeks /pol/ and so are unaware of terms like "grandstanding", " disingenuity...

 Let's get this straight right off the bat. This only partially applies to any African-American who wants to claim the homeland because their ancestors had no say whatsoever in becoming American property. You wanna walk proud through Birmingham claiming to be Yoruba - brother or sister, you are fucking Yoruba. I mean, you're not really, but exigent circumstances demand that I respect your decision to identify as such as an act of mourning and personal empowerment. I am speaking primarily to my melanin-challenged brothers and sisters: You are not Italian. You are not German. You are not Scottish. You are not Irish. You are not Indian, Korean, Chinese, or Lao. You don't live in any of those places. You didn't used to live in any of those places. You didn't grow up in any of those places. You don't speak the language. If you do, you don't have the dialect and you don't know the slang. You don't eat the food, because the FDA won't let you have unpast...