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Please don't partake in virtue signalling. It makes you feel like you're making a difference, allows you to signal to your tribe that you feel a certain way (ga
by gosub100 1y ago
Please don't partake in virtue signalling. It makes you feel like you're making a difference, allows you to signal to your tribe that you feel a certain way (gaining you virtue among them), but requires 0 actual effort.
- vintagedave 1y agoIt's not virtue signalling: it's a concrete action. Refusing traffic from an audience like Hacker News is meaningful. Any boycott is meaningful. It is also the opposite of silence. Someone speaking up and saying, 'This is not okay and we should not do it', as the OP did, is important.
- jekwoooooe 1y agoRefusing to use a platform is literally the opposite of virtue signaling
- kbelder 1y agoRefusing to use a platform is a concrete action. A post complaining about other people using that platform is bit performative and a bit rude.
- jekwoooooe 1y agoIt’s literally not performative by definition