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CMV: Unironically using "folx" is either the result of virtue signaling or ignorance.

I say "ignorance" to cover people who are perhaps so sheltered they haven't encountered the actual spelling of "folks" or who have been genuinely led to believe that "folks" isn't already a gender neutral term. Things like that. Didn't mean it in an insulting way, just a very literal interpretation of the word. 

But for all the rest I fail to see how publicly using "folx" isn't just pure virtue signaling. "Folks" is *already* gender neutral. Due to its gender neutrality it was *already* considered one of the more PC ways to refer to people in a gender neutral way, such as saying "trans folks." *Nobody* was complaining about its use or saying it was regressive or, if they were, I can't possibly imagine what leg they had to stand on. It seems some individuals just took it upon themselves to change the spelling of "folks" and tack an "x" on the back of it (a la the already unnecessary, unpopular, and virtue signal-y "Latinx") to demonstrate to everyone else how woke and progressive and LGBTQ-friendly they are.
gpt
I kinda feel like this is one of those situations where complaining or critiquing about X (Where in X is such an infinitesimally small and niche issue that even if one actually encounters it (highly unlikely) in real life it could not possibly have less of an effect on you) and claiming that people who give a crap about X are really just doing Y sorta means that you, *yourself*, are just as obsessed and preoccupied with X despite it being a complete non-issue and equally culpable in just doing Y.

To put it more specifically: Your unironic complaining about people using "folx" is ever bit as "virtue signaling" as anyone unironically using "folx". 

Sometimes it's better to just not give a shit about things that could not possibly have less of an effect on you?