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It's come to the point that any communication of opinion is 'virtue signaling', since opinions are virtues and communications are signaling. I struggle to find
by whymauri 5y ago
It's come to the point that any communication of opinion is 'virtue signaling', since opinions are virtues and communications are signaling. I struggle to find much meaning in the phrase these days other than implicit disagreement.
- potatolicious 5y ago"Virtue signaling" is an empty phrase - implicitly it's an accusation that the speaker doesn't actually believe what they are saying, and are only saying it for the approval of others. Not to mention, typically when the accusation is leveled, no attention is given to which virtues are being signaled, and why such virtues are bad. This is a common rhetorical trick and it's frustrating how often it works - rather than arguing the specifics of a situation (which the arguer finds difficult to justify) a more general, more vague, and more obfuscated point is argued instead. See also the OP and "betting a project against a technology", as an accusation of close-mindedness, which is amusingly vague. The blog post makes a point against a specific technology and goes to lengths to describe its reasoning, but a murkier, more abstract argument is made instead to color the company as somehow luddite-like.
- DenisM 5y agoVirtue signaling is expressing a popular opinion for the purpose of being seen as someone who does. Some opinions are unpopular, others are expressed to enrich the conversation rather than the speaker. Neither is virtue signaling.
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