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Moreover an article isn't neccesarily virtue signalling merely because an internet forum user stridently declares it to be.
by defrost 2y ago
Moreover an article isn't neccesarily virtue signalling merely because an internet forum user stridently declares it to be.
- echoangle 2y agoAlso true. But just saying „but what he’s signaling isn’t actually a virtue, how can it be virtue signaling?“ isn’t a very good argument.
- dkdbejwi383 2y agoSounds like “virtue signalling” has the same definition as “hipster” did in the early 00s - a proxy for “something or someone I don’t like”
- echoangle 2y agoIt’s certainly sometimes used that way. But the real meaning is something like „making sure everyone knows how moral you are without making a lot of effort to actually be moral, just by telling everyone“.
- dkdbejwi383 2y agoBy that definition the linked article doesn't fit, then. The author has put a lot of effort into research and writing about this subject. The "morality" part is a relatively small part of it, just a single paragraph in the conclusion.
- echoangle 2y agoI’m not saying that it’s virtue signaling, I was just criticizing the bad arguments against the claim that it was.
- prmoustache 2y agoThese days the word is "woke" or any of its variants.
- defrost 2y agoI struggle to differentiate commenters muttering "radical wokeism", "virtue signalling", etc from dogs barking at cars. Non constructive noise from creatures with desire only to chase something.