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I like how the implicit premise is that virtue signaling is a "bad thing".
by akhilcacharya 7y ago
I like how the implicit premise is that virtue signaling is a "bad thing".
- challenger22 7y agoTo me, when the social signal is valued more highly than the negative outcomes caused by the action, it becomes a bad thing. The action does not reduce gun violence, but hurts both customers and profits.
- objectivetruth 7y agoActions don't occur in a vacuum. If enough companies followed suit, the social conversations in media, between people, and between organizations can change enough to act as a lever for larger social changes. Lunch counter sit-ins didn't immediately "reduce" the actual local laws that banned black people from sitting in the restaurants... but the protest and counter-protests happened, and the famous pic of the white mob pouring drinks on the peaceful black diners helped inspire social action that led to the Civil Rights Act.