I was accused of "virtue signalling" for squee-ing publicly (to the audience in a room) about the accessibility improvements at the convention hosting the event I was running. The accusation was made in a blog post the day of the event (when he'd gone to sulk in his room) and repeated *over a year later* on an email list, when I finally replied that no, really, I had just been *happy* ...? The accuser flat-out refused to accept my word that I was genuinely happy about the improvements (e.g., blue tape marking flow lanes and wheelchair / mobility aide rest areas) and I was making spontaneous excited utterances. He said it was a performance of better-than-thou, and continues even now to hold me up as an example of how SJWs have ruined "his" supposedly-formerly-apolitical con.
Edited (Editing in multiple parts of my reply and a conjunction went wrong.) Date: 2017-12-02 04:32 am (UTC)
(no subject)