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> Ironically, bashing people about their use of the term is a form of virtual signaling itself, and is associated with one political identiry. Considering tha
by Mediterraneo10 8y ago
> Ironically, bashing people about their use of the term is a form of virtual signaling itself, and is associated with one political identiry.
Considering that someone who feels unease with the term “virtue signalling” might come from a country with vastly different politics to your own, and perhaps with a wide array of parties instead of the limited two-party system in, say, the USA or UK, it seems to a reach to claim that such sentiments are associated with one political identity.
- buboard 8y agoi don't know. check sibling thread. In abstract the term "signaling" is well understood, and "virtue" is what is being signaled, instead of e.g. wealth. However in English-speaking word it is being used as a pejorative term for socially-concerned left-leaning people it seems.