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Virtue signalling, plain and simple. Makes you look good to your peers without doing anything of substance. I don't get why there isn't a sustained campaign to

by dwd 6y ago

Virtue signalling, plain and simple. Makes you look good to your peers without doing anything of substance. I don't get why there isn't a sustained campaign to reach out for commitments from elected representative while they are largely working from home and more immune from the political pressures that keep them in lockstep maintaining the status quo. Now is the time to push for change from those who hold the power of the purse and frame laws.

apatters 6y ago
This realization is what motivated me to start participating in charity over the past few years. There has never been as much empty virtue signalling by privileged people as there is today. They declare the deck chairs on the Titanic to be offensive, remove a few of them, congratulate themselves and call it a day like their responsibility is absolved. Maybe they go the extra mile and try to get somebody fired for not speaking the same doublespeak as them. But fixating on their theater achieves nothing. It just gives them more of the attention they crave. So I decided instead to donate my time and my money to good causes and actually help make things better, because this is in short supply. The virtue signallers may or may not take note, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that if they're going to absolve themselves of doing the real work, someone else has to step up.
- dwd 6y ago
  I avoid simply giving money to a lot of large charities. Fancy offices with executive level pay while they largely rely on donations and volunteers to do the real work for free. Kind of a corporation version of virtue signalling. I'd rather donate food to the local animal refuge than give to them.
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Some large charities are very effectively run. Charity water comes to mind. I think it’s important to not throw out the baby with the bathwater, and that donating to large nonprofits can be an effective use of resources if you’ve done your homework.

by dwd 6y ago

apatters 6y ago

This realization is what motivated me to start participating in charity over the past few years. There has never been as much empty virtue signalling by privileged people as there is today. They declare the deck chairs on the Titanic to be offensive, remove a few of them, congratulate themselves and call it a day like their responsibility is absolved. Maybe they go the extra mile and try to get somebody fired for not speaking the same doublespeak as them. But fixating on their theater achieves nothing. It just gives them more of the attention they crave. So I decided instead to donate my time and my money to good causes and actually help make things better, because this is in short supply. The virtue signallers may or may not take note, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that if they're going to absolve themselves of doing the real work, someone else has to step up.

dwd 6y ago
I avoid simply giving money to a lot of large charities. Fancy offices with executive level pay while they largely rely on donations and volunteers to do the real work for free. Kind of a corporation version of virtue signalling. I'd rather donate food to the local animal refuge than give to them.
- toomuchtodo 6y ago
  Some large charities are very effectively run. Charity water comes to mind. I think it’s important to not throw out the baby with the bathwater, and that donating to large nonprofits can be an effective use of resources if you’ve done your homework.