Nothing personal here, folks, but I don't believe the issue is, as DoodleBob opines, "contra virtue-signaling".
Here is the issue which I, as a Conservative, see it:
I went to an annual town meeting last year because they were thinking of passing a town measure to MANDATE that ALL business considered and conducted by the town government, should include a component on Climate Change.
I am not against people trying to find out about "Climate Change" and doing what they think they should to stop it. It is a lie and a fools errand, but...it is their time, energy, and money. If this were a non-profit or private company answerable to shareholders, I could not care less. Have at it.
My objection that I stood up in front of the crowd and voiced, was that it is not the role of the town government to do this.
I want my town government to fix the potholes in the roads and keep snow off those roads. I want the water clean when it comes out of my faucet. I want the school system run intelligently. I want the budgets to be balanced.
I said, if even one second of someone's time at Town Hall goes towards ANYTHING regarding "Climate Change", that is ONE SECOND less they can spend on those things that are important.
Because the TIME government officials spend on ANYTHING is MONEY, and it is a zero sum game. TIME (money) taken away from something to be spent on something else is MONEY spent on something else that is not the province of the government.
And I feel the same way about this.
I don't mind if some medical entity defines a month as "Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month" or something like that.
But if one second of government time is being allocated for it, even one second, that is taxpayer money expenditure, and I am wholly against it, since we are already so far in debt we likely will never climb out.
And, as you can see below, there are people proposing this crap, pushing this crap, creating web pages for this crap, creating documents for this crap, allocating someone in government to administer this crap, maybe even creating a unique position for this crap and designating a dedicated FTE for this thing.
Dammit. I want the NIH to deal with the issue the possible issues associated with things like potentially harmful vaccines and whether policies to mandate them are issues, not "National Stalking Awareness Month".
So yes. If there is a non-profit or even a company, and they decide to designate a day, a month or a year to be dedicated to "The Dangers of Nose Hair Plucking" or even more seriously, stalking, I have no problem with that.
But for Conservatives, it ends there. One second proposing it on the floor of the House, one second spent towards government expenditures to educate, put up websites, create documentation, or hiring dedicated people to oversee this is (and should be) anathema towards any thinking Conservative.
That's all. It is terrible that people are stalked, even worse that this stalked person was murdered. Conservatives take issue with government getting involved in this BS, other than to create legislation against stalking, and ensure those doing it are punished appropriately.