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Virtue signalling is showing (signalling) that you have a certain opinion for the sole purpose of appearing virtuous. For example, all of the people suddenly s
by Mikeb85 10y ago
Virtue signalling is showing (signalling) that you have a certain opinion for the sole purpose of appearing virtuous.
For example, all of the people suddenly support for illegal immigration because Donald Trump is against it, even though every 'progressive' country in the world deports illegal immigrants.
Or the "Women's March", which was basically an anti-Trump protest, and had nothing to do with women's rights (if it did, it wouldn't have used a hijab as a symbol of women's rights, as women in Islamic countries generally protest the use of the hijab as a tool of oppression).
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoSo the people who disagree with you, don't really disagree with you, they just pretend to disagree with you, because all of their peer group disagree with you? There appears to be a logical hole here.
- verylittlemeat 10y agoI'm not the OP but I'm curious what do you see as the logical hole? There is social value in disagreeing with someone who claims to have the objective truth. It's not so much about being right as it's claiming to have the truth which socially, emotionally and culturally is related to power. If you don't want a person to have power it doesn't matter if they're right or not. All that matters is the fact that having the truth means having power.
- tropo 10y agoThere is no logical hole. That is exactly what happens. People do pretend to disagree.