3 ms·
Wanting to do good and talking about doing good in proportional amounts to the (a lot of) bad you are doing (as well as a solid way to gaslight everyone and dro
by filoleg 4y ago
Wanting to do good and talking about doing good in proportional amounts to the (a lot of) bad you are doing (as well as a solid way to gaslight everyone and drown out the negative sentiment) are not the same thing. Virtue signaling refers to the latter, not the former. No need to invent strawmen to "dunk on conservatives", conservative politicians give plenty of actual legitimate reasons to be disliked.
- ben_w 4y agoI first heard "virtue signalling" used to describe why people buy expensive Rolex watches even though they're worse at keeping time than a F-91W. And of course, dismissing someone as "virtue signalling" is itself an act of virtue signalling in the other sense.