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[[File:Imagine.png|450px|thumb|center|Imagine having the lack of self-awareness to think this was a good idea.]] | [[File:Imagine.png|450px|thumb|center|Imagine having the lack of self-awareness to think this was a good idea.]] | ||
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A form of [[preaching to the choir]], only with added moralising, [[virtue-signalling]] is making a statement that ''looks'' brave but is not | A form of [[preaching to the choir]], only with added moralising, [[virtue-signalling]] is making a statement that ''looks'' brave but is not. A virtue signal is a flamboyant but yet safe and inexpensive gesture that has no prospect of really impacting is subject matter, but is [[calculated]] to burnish one's own, inevitably [[libtard]], credentials. | ||
Social media are intrinsically excellent for virtue signaling, because it costs nothing to make a statement, and you can choose & filter your audience (or it chooses and filters you) based on pre-determined proclivities. | Social media are intrinsically excellent for virtue signaling, because it costs nothing to make a statement, and you can choose & filter your audience (or it chooses and filters you) based on pre-determined proclivities. | ||
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[[File: thankyounhs.jpeg|300px|left|thumb|#ThankYouTopGunActors #OurTopGunActors]]In fairness, that only happened once as everyone recognised it at one for exactly what it was, and more recent social atrocities have been mercifully free of such humble self-aggrandizing behaviour by overpaid entertainers. | [[File: thankyounhs.jpeg|300px|left|thumb|#ThankYouTopGunActors #OurTopGunActors]]In fairness, that only happened once as everyone recognised it at one for exactly what it was, and more recent social atrocities have been mercifully free of such humble self-aggrandizing behaviour by overpaid entertainers. | ||
You see, James Bond, if you want to support the health service give them some of your money, or get in your van and start helping, but either way shut the hell up about it. | |||
The point isn’t to criticize the sentiment — what kind of monster<ref>Well, obviously a member of Boko Haram, of course. But you get the point.</ref> could do that? — but to ask what practical good it does? Would a worldwide crush of hashtags lead a religious fundamentalist to the error of his ways<ref>No, sayeth Wikipedia: “However, with limited action and success after initial protests in 2014, little has been accomplished through social 0/media regarding results. As of January 13, 2017, 195 of the 276 girls are still in captivity, close to three years after the kidnappings.”</ref>? Or was that not really the point, but to visibly, righteously, show concern in a costless but [[bragadocious]] way? | The point isn’t to criticize the sentiment — what kind of monster<ref>Well, obviously a member of Boko Haram, of course. But you get the point.</ref> could do that? — but to ask what practical good it does? Would a worldwide crush of hashtags lead a religious fundamentalist to the error of his ways<ref>No, sayeth Wikipedia: “However, with limited action and success after initial protests in 2014, little has been accomplished through social 0/media regarding results. As of January 13, 2017, 195 of the 276 girls are still in captivity, close to three years after the kidnappings.”</ref>? Or was that not really the point, but to visibly, righteously, show concern in a costless but [[bragadocious]] way? | ||