What is "Virtue Signalling"
I found this article interesting but at the same time amusing. It's amazing how we must have a phrase for everything these days.
Here is another case where we are faced with yet another: "Social" phrase.
A mentor once stated: Most peoples facts are just opinions and not facts at all. So if you are stating Observable, repeatable, duplicatable "Facts" in a statement...your really Not signalling your Virtue now are you...but it will be probably taken that way. Just as stating you think or believe something isn't really signalling anything either, just where your at in this complex world right now.
But that's not what the left, the socially liberal or progressive "rules for radicals" are doing. Most of know this and if we don't, we might research it so that we can understand it. (is that "Virtue Signalling"?...laughing
"It’s noticeable how often virtue signalling consists of saying you hate things. It is camouflage. The emphasis on hate distracts from the fact you are really saying how good you are. If you were frank and said, ‘I care about the environment more than most people do’ or ‘I care about the poor more than others’, your vanity and self-aggrandizement would be obvious. . . . Anger and outrage disguise your boastfulness.
It's also intellectually lazy and usually with no facts to back it up."
Feel free to share your most recent experience of "Virtue Signalling". Are we ourselves guilty of intellectual laziness?
I also "Hate" the word Hate...and YES, I would punch it out if it were something physical...after all, that is what is required to be considered "Hate"...am I Virtue Signalling...laughing hysterically...
Here is another case where we are faced with yet another: "Social" phrase.
A mentor once stated: Most peoples facts are just opinions and not facts at all. So if you are stating Observable, repeatable, duplicatable "Facts" in a statement...your really Not signalling your Virtue now are you...but it will be probably taken that way. Just as stating you think or believe something isn't really signalling anything either, just where your at in this complex world right now.
But that's not what the left, the socially liberal or progressive "rules for radicals" are doing. Most of know this and if we don't, we might research it so that we can understand it. (is that "Virtue Signalling"?...laughing
"It’s noticeable how often virtue signalling consists of saying you hate things. It is camouflage. The emphasis on hate distracts from the fact you are really saying how good you are. If you were frank and said, ‘I care about the environment more than most people do’ or ‘I care about the poor more than others’, your vanity and self-aggrandizement would be obvious. . . . Anger and outrage disguise your boastfulness.
It's also intellectually lazy and usually with no facts to back it up."
Feel free to share your most recent experience of "Virtue Signalling". Are we ourselves guilty of intellectual laziness?
I also "Hate" the word Hate...and YES, I would punch it out if it were something physical...after all, that is what is required to be considered "Hate"...am I Virtue Signalling...laughing hysterically...
Thanks for this topic, it is good for a rant.
Yes, virtue signalling. Moral posturing.
The opposite of 'Putting your money where your mouth is'.
So my view is different from that in the article.
This virtue signalling is not hate, it is simply the exercise of hypocrisy,
pretending to be virtuous / moral / caring at no cost or effort.
The big proponents are the big time global saviors-
David Suzuki arguing for fewer people to save the planet but having a big family,
(living on a private island?) .
They complain about rising sea levels but buy ocean front property in
pricey neighborhoods.
Pop stars arrive by helicopter to lecture about carbon footprints.
Enviro executives who commute long distances in company owned 4WDs
instead of by train which they advocate for the sheeple.
Now the left wing mega-rich sign letters against tax cuts.
Make a speech about sacrifice, giving back, foregoing some pleasure, all this is
virtue signalling when the big talk is not matched by action but by expecting
others, the sheeple, to comply - and they do!
It is the evil of altruism, doing good with other people's money, and getting a
rake-off.
The old English aristocracy have a tradition of being patrons of culture
and charity by lending their names and titles and making speeches,
but giving no money.
The modern celebrity class does the same.
That's because sometimes my old dino (long ago a liberal) heart just bleeds over all the social injustice.
Yep, so my heart just bleeds. It bleeds, I tell you. It just bleeds. Oh, how it bleeds.
Oops, it bleeds right now.
Can anyone please tell the dino how to call that 911 number?
You hope me dino's better?
This is how me dino freakin' samurai looked with Spanish subtitles~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gEYl...
Hey, and old dino's bleeding heart been bleeding for 5 and a half hours by now!
Me dino getting big time loony tunes light-headed. Whee!
So how ya call niner-oner-oner-oner?
Called--cough! cough! ack!--hospital me dino will sue when I feel better. All I asked was how to call 911 and a lady called me stupid.
So me dino called an ambulance company. They called me stupid too but also asked for my address.
Me dino told dem ingratiating smart asses to shove it where the sun don't shine.
Whatever shall~ack! ack! ack!~me dino do?
Wait, me dino knows. I'll tie a tourniquet around my neck to protest my little dino brain.
Still worried about you...
I am woman~strike that.
Yeah, strike that due to my bleeding heart blood loss syndrome. .
Harrumph!
I am dino~
Hear me ROAR!
Uh, on second thought, do not strike the "I am woman" slip.
That may be offensive a male of any species who thinks she is a woman.
I could get arrested in Kalifornia for that.
Hey, little girl~BOO! Ha! Ha! Ha! You shoulda saw how that time a little tyke tore out of there crying and screaming her little head off. Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes, people should be tolerant of my behavior because~well, you see~I have feelings.
By the way, this morning I woke up feeling fine after my bleeding heart bled to death yesterday.
So don't worry about--hey, wait! I think I'm a dinosaur again. Great! I'm back to my sharp aging old mental self again.
Excuse me while I go fetch a bronto burger.
I think I'm an allosaur and have a right to be happy.
Can't we all just get along? SQUISH!
Yuck! Who's that squished person under my foot?
Who cares? I'm mental and that makes me special.
Those we Can't get along with cause they oppose existence itself.
Well said indeed.
- your and you're
- here and hear
- there, their, and they're
- our and are (This one really makes me wonder what school some people attended)
Your, write! Eye here there fooling with are tax code again. LOL!
Edit add: Just thought of this one: then and than.
No one comes even close to how hard I am on my self...I have everyone beat on that account.
pssst...I'm still 5'10" myself...my wife is 5'4"
Another example is the "Hate Has no Home Here" yard sign which proves you're sensitive to immigrants, particularly illegal (though you'd likely call 911 if someone speaking only a foreign language showed up at your door).
Hashtags are often very clear virtue signals, telling the world what you'd do if only you had the resources; bumper stickers frequently fall into the same category.
In the end, virtue signaling is exclusivity of an "I'm better than you" sort.
When they try to pull that crap on me. I just respond: Hmm, seems you've become what you think about most of the time; then hand them the number to call Dr. Phill...
Try not to snicker...it's serious stuff...LMAO
After eating people in a terrorized San Diego, the hybrid T-Rex and its baby are shipped back to their island home at great expense when there were other T-Rex's there.
They were not for really real dinosaurs but man-made monsters as one character pointed out in Jurassic Park III.
Oh, but it felt so environmentally good not to simply kill the monsters off.