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In what way is there a difference between virtue signaling and performative?
by ImprobableTruth 6y ago
In what way is there a difference between virtue signaling and performative?
- kennywinker 6y agoThe difference I'm hoping to draw out is that virtue signalling implies the person doesn't actually care, just wants to be seen as virtuous. Buying CFL lightbulbs is performative climate action. Buying CFL lightbulbs is virtue signalling climate action. One of them is about the action - buying bulbs isn't effective, the other is about the person - if you buy bulbs you are fake. Perhaps "performative" fails at making this distinction clear enough, but I'd like a way to imply that someone is all-talk-no-action, without undermining their actual belief in something.