> You forgot 'signalling' which is what people in the West - not just the USA - are tired of.
No, that's implicit. If I'm tired of rock music, that mostly comes into play when I'm exposed to it in some way.
> Stating that a whole country has problems with virtue is rather stigmatising
Speaking of, someone expressing their virtue -- and caring for the well being of sentient beings simply is, it's a capacity, and it annoys the people who lack it, because it raises the question why they lack it -- isn't automatically them "signalling" anything. That's just an attempt to stigmatise it.
recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922972
If we don't have empathy with victims of that, who cares what we are "tired of"? We can torture animals, but don't stigmatise us, and don't talk about how you try to avoid feeding the systems that lead to animals being tortured. You can talk about how much you like your other new hobbies, but not this one. You cannot even wear a pin. Because we're so tired and you're so oppressive, with your virtue and your signals. Have empathy with my fear of empathy, basically.
I'm not even vegetarian but I'm more tired of that than them, because it's both evil and stupid, and projects that on vegans.
> something you'd complain about if it were about any country in what some have taken to call the "global South".
Many things play into this. One is the hesitation to punch down versus a superpower that spent many, many millions to signal, to broadcast, their virtue into the whole world for decades.
