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I never understood the issue with virtue signalling. Why would we discourage both: A) the act of being nice and showing our virtue B) showing other people the
by maxehmookau 4y ago
I never understood the issue with virtue signalling. Why would we discourage both:
A) the act of being nice and showing our virtue
B) showing other people the nice thing we did
...honestly I don't get it? Signalling our virtue seems like a great idea and would encourage others to do the same.
- itronitron 4y agoVirtue signaling is all about saying you did the nice thing without showing you did the nice thing. If a company really did the nice thing then it should be visible and they wouldn't have to tell everyone about it. It's that aspect of virtue signaling language that rubs people the wrong way.
- maxehmookau 4y agoTo be fair, that was from an internal email that (I assume) they're legally required to disclose to the SEC. It's hardly shouting about it.
- phpisthebest 4y agoVirtue signalling is normally seen as putting on a façade around a virtue, for example Disney claiming to promote LGBT but only doing so in the US not in nations where doing so would hurt the bottom line in this context "Anti-Racism" has become movement of actual racism, so when companies us the term "Anti-racist" is perceived by a lot of people (correctly) be anti-white/asian racism, as the main actor(s) in the movement openly claim that is the purpose
- maxehmookau 4y agoThis just _isn't_ anti-white racism though. In this case, Twilio are doing the right thing by making sure those groups who are usually disproportionally hit by layoffs _aren't._ That's literally the definition of being anti-racist.
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- phpisthebest 4y agoNo, that would be called "not racist" Anti-Racism is a specific philosophy that goes beyond simply not being racist.