• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t really believe in virtue signaling. It’s something the rightwing made up

    No. Like so many things, it’s a real thing that right wing people twist into something it isn’t to fit their narrative or to excuse their own vices.

    An example of virtue signaling would be to for example arbitrarily avoid using words that start with an n to showcase how virtuous you are.

    An example of the right wing definition of virtue signaling is just…doing anything virtuous. Like when someone is legitimately doing or saying the right things for the right reasons, right wing troglodytes will call THAT virtue signaling.

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      10 months ago

      Examples of real things are usually specific and real instances of those things actually occuring, I notice neither of your examples are (obe is the fiction comedy sketch, the other is just a general description you’ve written).

      So I’m going to continue to doubt the existence of “virtue signaling”.

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        10 months ago

        And I’m going to cease pretending that you’re receptive to reason and let you be pigheaded at someone else in stead. Have the day you deserve.

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          10 months ago

          Or maybe you just couldn’t come up with a genuine real world example of virtue signaling.

          See, that’s the thing about examples they provide substance capable of usurping reason. They’re a way of saying “see for yourself”.

          But I get it, you’re frustrating and lashing out, that’s okay. Everyone’s got emotions, and politics is a frustrating topic.

          Difficult to do comedy on in an age of saturation (and an election year to boot).

          Have a good day.

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          10 months ago

          And when called out for spreading the AstroTurf, they run away crying about how unreasonable those calling it out are…