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> Everything else is mere virtue signalling without effect. By that definition, isn’t almost every form of non-decisive influence “virtue signaling”? Virtue it
by confounded 8y ago
> Everything else is mere virtue signalling without effect.
By that definition, isn’t almost every form of non-decisive influence “virtue signaling”? Virtue itself? Marching against a war? Voting for a candidate you like the policies of, but who doesn’t have good media coverage? Declining to purchase unethical goods?
- intopieces 8y agoYes. That’s the objective behind the term “virtue signaling” - to call into question the motives of anyone and everyone who claims to care about something so that it becomes deeply uncool to care about things so that they’ll stop trying to make the world a better place. Even if you presented a 100-step well funded plan for changing the status quo, prepare to have it leveled by the sneer of “you’re just virtue signaling.” You can never prove your sincerity to anyone who uses this term, because it will never be enough.
- mankash666 8y agoHow's legitimacy relevant here? I'm not trying to place doubt, trying to make an honest observation that a result needs the majority of the board to vote for the measure.
- jiggunjer 8y agoI don't see any issue with the phrase "virtue signaling" per se. My issue is with the implicit or explicit statement that it is useless. Virtue signaling is cool. People who say it with a mocking tone of voice aren't.