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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2017-11-30

"'Virtue signalling' is a pejorative name for 'setting a good example'. Don't let them twist it." -- Marnanel Thurman, 2017-11-19

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madfilkentist: My cat Florestan (gray shorthair) (Default)
posted by [personal profile] madfilkentist at 11:36am on 2017-11-30
In my own experience, "virtue signaling" usually means saying something, often expressing outrage, without reflection, because others will react positively to its emotions. (For example, most of Donald Trump's tweets.) Lack of careful thought and attempts to impress a peer group don't constitute setting a good example.

Many expressions mean different things to different people, so it could have other meanings outside my experience.
Edited Date: 2017-11-30 12:40 pm (UTC)
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posted by [personal profile] selki at 04:29am on 2017-12-02
I was accused of "virtue signalling" for squee-ing publicly (to the audience in a room) about the accessibility improvements at the convention hosting the event I was running. The accusation was made in a blog post the day of the event (when he'd gone to sulk in his room) and repeated *over a year later* on an email list, when I finally replied that no, really, I had just been *happy* ...? The accuser flat-out refused to accept my word that I was genuinely happy about the improvements (e.g., blue tape marking flow lanes and wheelchair / mobility aide rest areas) and I was making spontaneous excited utterances. He said it was a performance of better-than-thou, and continues even now to hold me up as an example of how SJWs have ruined "his" supposedly-formerly-apolitical con.
Edited (Editing in multiple parts of my reply and a conjunction went wrong.) Date: 2017-12-02 04:32 am (UTC)
finding_helena: Girl staring off into the distance. Text from "River of Dreams" by Billy Joel (Default)
posted by [personal profile] finding_helena at 04:21am on 2017-12-01
In my experience, it means talking about how you did some thing that you are "supposed to do", that in reality is no better than the alternative, in a way as to make people squirm who did the alternative. I see it a lot in discussions of parenting stuff, like virtue signaling is talking about how great you are because you breastfed, which just makes people feel like crap if they didn't, and really is not productive for anyone.

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