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I suspect “virtue signaling” implies shallowness or insincerity, and that one is stating a position for affiliation instead of advocacy.
by i_am_nomad 9y ago
I suspect “virtue signaling” implies shallowness or insincerity, and that one is stating a position for affiliation instead of advocacy.
- QAPereo 9y agoIn other words, it’s a dog whistle for accusations of insincerity when there is an absence of evidence to support that point?
- musage 9y agoCouldn't that be rewritten as "advocating a position for affiliation instead of advocacy"? And if I point out a potential bug in your or our program, is the claim "you only do this to impress people who hate this type of bug" (which can rarely be proven or refuted) a good enough reason to not even look into it?
- geofft 9y agoRight - even if the "virtue signaling" activity is being done to promote goodness out of a desire for social status than an inherent belief in that goodness, what's wrong with it, as long as it's done effectively? (If it's done ineffectively or fraudulently, that's a problem, but the problem there seems to be the fraud.)