What is "Virtue Signalling"

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 6 months ago to Culture
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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...


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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Snotty!?? did you get any on yourself? (not you are self)...laughing.

    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"
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I hate to seem snotty about it, but I edited biographical comic books for a while and I almost became the Jason of of the editing world. 'Hand me down my rusty hachett". I'm about as threatening as Robert Burns' mouse. 5'10" and fat. But since no one (except my grandson is over 5'4" I have to stoop to see faces, I tower over my itty-bitty family.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    you're (Short for You Are) not your. What's your your?. I am far from a grammarian, but your, you're makes me nuts. I fight dislexia and while I enjoy your posts the your in place of you're sends me right off the rails.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago
    Recalling the end of Jurassic Park II:The Lost World.
    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.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It boggles the mind when that happens because I know better and always edit after posting...maybe, mccannon01 is onto something.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sure...as long as they work in government, are leftest, progressive, antifa, racist democrat or otherwise just an idiot.

    Those we Can't get along with cause they oppose existence itself.
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  • Posted by mccannon01 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These slips of the language are becoming more common nowadays, Herb7734, but it makes me do double takes as well. I've caught the spell check algorithm changing words on me from time to as well. Here's a short list of mix ups that sometimes drive me crazy as well:

    - 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.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I love your topics, but do me one favor, which makes me crazy. Use you're (for You Are) instead of your)
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 6 months ago
    just another term for bullshit. If you are truly a seeker of truth this new phrase doesn't belong to you.and if you're an objectivist, you don't require the adulation of others. You are right, you know you are right and you don't need it to be confirmed by others.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Should I maul somebody on the way? It's okay.
    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.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry, Al, my mental illness tells me feeling like a lady that I have to first get knocked up and I lack the equipment but I can still sit down in a Target ladies room to pee if I want.
    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.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Okay, you're a worried insensitive beast. Happy now?
    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.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Now I'm really worried...use some spray bandage to stop the bleeding and call me in the morning...unless of course, you have been drinkin Moon shine during a new moon...in that case...STOP! and brew some coffee.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ack! Ack! Just tried dialing 0. That doesn't work anymore. At least not with Vonage.
    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.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yeah, 9-1-1 or however you care to write dat!
    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?
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'd swear it's a competition among them...they must ask: mirror, mirror on the wall...who's the dumbest of all...
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I saw one today on a barn side 1/2 mile from my house stating: No Place for Racism Here over a painted American Flag...I'd like to griffiti a T after the no and scratch out the 'place for'; cause there ain't no such thing except in the brains of liberal progressives.

    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
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  • Posted by preimert1 6 years, 6 months ago
    Yep, first a label, then comes an acronym for the label, then an organization(s) springs up to promote/condemn the concept on racial/gender/whatever grounds. Talk show hosts pick it up... ad nausium. Crank in the antennae, turn down the gain and just SHUT THE F*** UP! STFU!
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