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VIRTUE_SIGNALLING
March 7, 2020
"Virtue signalling" is the latest CORRECT
in a series of similar phrases,
beginning with (as far as I know) And "politically correct" was
"politically correct". *originally* an ironic remark made
by people on the left, as I think
When you accuse someone of many of these phrases are.
"virtue signalling"-- presuming
you're not attacking from the They get picked up on by the right, and
right-- You're not so much very quickly become contaiminated by the
accusing someone of being *wrong* association, hence the need for newer
as accusing them of being ones like "virtue signalling".
doctrinaire-- the sense is that
someone has said something that's These days "Oh, you're just being
kind of obvious and unhelpful and *politically correct*" most often
now they're expecting to be just means "How dare you call
rewarded with approving applause. me racist just because I am."
I think you can make an
analogy to the attitude of It just occurred to me to
Christians to being *check* my impression that the
excessively "out" about their phrase "virtue signalling" also
Christianity: Real Christians came from the left-- that seems
are supposed to attend to to be wrong.
their faith quietly, and the
"funadmentalists" that are James Bartholomew (right of
always going on about it are, center, I think) popularized (and
I think, widely regarded as likes to claim he invented) the
being in very poor taste by current usage of the phrase, in a
most Christians -- though it 2015 piece.
would similarly be in poor
taste to call them on this, https://beta.spectator.co.uk/article/easy-virtue
which is how we end up with
the fundies as being the For what it's worth Bartholomew
public face of Christianity. claims he didn't intend it solely
as an attack on the left:
"Virtue signalling crosses
the political divide."
But most of his examples are
indeed criticisms of the left:
There's a standard objection
to the stridently committed: "‘I hate 4x4s!’ you declare. This is
"you're going to turn people an assertion that, unlike others,
off talking like this". you care about the environment.
I've been know to use that "It’s noticeable how often virtue
one sometimes myself-- signalling consists of saying you
hate things. It is camouflage. The
EXPLAINING_FEMINISM emphasis on hate distracts from the
fact you are really saying how good
But it's hard for me to be you are. If you were frank and
too strident about it-- said, ‘I care about the environment
because I know it's what more than most people do’ [...]
everyone says about any your vanity and self-aggrandisement
sort of "activist": would be obvious [...] "
Of course activists are annoying,
the question is are they too
annoying or just annoying enough?
This above was originally
written as a post to a Crooked [link]
Timber discussion initiated by
The point Quiggin John Quiggin, who declined to
was making though use my comment-- no doubt as an
is that the oversight.
right's analog
of "virtue Really, I think it's
signalling" because I'm pro-nuclear
is more like power. Quiggin is Not Admittedly, Quiggin is not
"vice signalling". Amused by hearing from as inanely anti-nuclear
A MAGA hat isn't people like me. And as some are...
an assertion of I have a feeling I'm
anything but a permanently banned at His claim is more
desire to this point. like "new nukes
"trigger the would be irrelevant
libs"-- it's more now". And if you
properly "vice disagree well double
signalling". derp on you.
Racist and proud NUCLEAR_DERANGEMENT
but not really,
we just like
offending the
anti-racists. James Hansen has
mentioned he took a
SusanC @ 40: funding hit after In his last
speaking up in favor appearance on
"... 'vice signalling': of nuclear power-- "Democracy Now",
its ostentatiously suddenly the he wouldn't say
violating the values of donations dried up. the "N" word.
a community you don’t
belong to, in order to Silencing
demonstrate that you *James Hansen*
don’t belong to it." is a pretty
good trick.
Hansen did slip
in his opinion
that we really
need some form
Quiggin has commented that of carbon tax...
it is now *too late* for
carbon pricing, he claims it
would act too slowly-- How he
figures that, I know not.
The guys at reddit's
/r/nuclear have a lot of
stories about getting banned
from /r/energy, where the
mods are ruled by some
rather smug renewables
enthusiasts.
(Why *those* guys don't
have to worry about
turning people off
with overreach I'll
never understand.)
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