I don't live in America, but I feel a similar level of stress to what you are, because my social media feed is America-centric. So my Facebook was the last few days, nothing but George Floyd related posts. However I have nothing to add to that conversation. I'm not going to post on Facebook condemning the murder, although I do condemn it, it made me sick. But I'm posting in an echo chamber. No one will see my post except people who already agree.

I'm also not American so me posting about it won't do ANYTHING to help black people in America.

Yet I feel this incredible pressure that I have to comment or else I'll be seen as a bad racist white person. But if I post just to "prove" I'm not like the others, then I'm not doing it for the right reason. I would literally be virtue signalling.

In addition, seeing the riots, seeing innocent people being killed or injured, having their businesses destroyed, seeing teeming masses of people rioting during a pandemic, I do start to feel what if it's going too far now, what if it is becoming counterproductive, giving Trump the narrative he wants? When before the riots people on Fox News were even condemning the police? Now they go back to their favourite topic, bashing the left. The anger is righteous but are violent protests the answer? Will thousands more die of coronavirus due to these protests? Will they end up actually HURTING the Black community more?

Yet if I voice those concerns under my real name I worry that I would be cancelled as a racist because apparently if you're white you can't have an opinion on anything race-related, even if you support the cause. It's like a double pressure - comment and be loud because if you don't you're contributing to "white silence" even if you live on the other side of the world, but don't comment anything about what you actually think or any kind of nuance because "white people need to learn to shut up". I can't do it.

So I deactivated social media.