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The awful rise of ‘virtue signalling’
- why_only_15 8y agoThis is a bizarre website - they claim to have invented the phrase "The Establishment"?? The magazine was established in 1828 [0], but that phrase had been popular for 40 years before that, and had been used 100 years before. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spectator [1]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+establishment&year_start=1700&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cthe%20establishment%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+establishm...