I paid too but didn’t mind, it wasn’t too expensive and it was worth paying for. Really good story.
Thanks again! Kind words about my writing never get old!
I didn’t mind either. I felt bad only buying the kindle version. And yes, it was a good story.
If you want to feel better, buy a few kindle versions as gifts for your friends and family. 
My family still uses rotary phones and answering machines 
Scratching my head over this apparent assumption that getting offended on behalf of oppressed people is somehow automatically insincere or illegitimate unless the victims of the oppression happen to be personal acquaintances in real life.
Somebody better warn all those privileged conservatives who get offended on behalf of, say, Christians who are complete strangers to them in real life and who get attacked or discriminated against by, say, extremist Muslims or Hindus in non-Christian-majority countries that they’re merely “virtue signaling”.
If you have to pull out “virtue signaling,” it’s just an admission you’ve lost. Your only remaining defense is “Well, sure, that all sounds right, but they don’t really mean what they say!”
Even if that were true, it would be irrelevant. Whether something is correct has nothing to do with the sincerity of the person arguing it. A Creationist could argue for evolution using real evidence, and it wouldn’t matter that he himself doesn’t believe any of it. The evidence is what matters.
Most of these irrational tactics used by the right came up because you were losing arguments so badly that you had to come up with something. It’s unfortunate that so many people find it convincing.
And, no, pointing out that what you call virtue signaling actually does occur doesn’t mean anything. You’re literally just describing hypocrisy, and that’s existed since time immemorial. The existence of hypocrites does not prove something wrong.
I’m a sci fi fan. Everything from Isaac Asimov to Fred Saberhagen.
In what way is my opinion bullshit?
Do you simply refuse to believe that virtue signalling is a thing?
Or do you have a different definition of virtue signalling?
That is a compelling argument.
I don’t know if any of your other arguments are any better.
Not all white people are virtue signallers but most virtue signallers are white (or otherwise privileged).
There are plenty of conservative virtue signallers.
Its $2. It’s probably just easier for me to buy it on Amazon.
It is bullshit for believing that others are not capable of being sincere; IOW, a projection of your shortcomings, it is also bullshit once one learns about where the term came from:
If you buy it, thank you very much, and I hope you enjoy reading it. And if you do read it, I hope you’ll let me know if you liked it.
And you base this assessment on what evidence? Poor people aren’t liberal? Don’t understand that they share common suffering from the same group?
How much of a slime are you that you see decency as something people must be faking?
It’s projection.