My brain is just now upon seeing this post processing why right-wingers always accuse the left of virtue signaling; as always with conservatives, it’s projection. They virtue signal by wearing crosses while definitely not giving a hoot about the teachings of Jesus.
They can’t imagine someone sincerely supporting a cause they care about and assume we all only do it for recognition among our peers, because that’s the way they use causes. To signal to the in-group that we are one of them.
This comment connects the dots so incredibly well compared with what I see from my angry conservative family.
They can’t imagine someone sincerely supporting a cause they care about and assume we all only do it for recognition among our peers, because that’s the way they use causes. To signal to the in-group that we are one of them.
Fuuuck, that is exactly the mindset I was raised to have, and which I very much had during my angry teenage years. Fortunately that was a long-ass time ago and in the decades since I’ve had everything from college to the internet to let me consider the thoughts and arguments of other less angry/hateful/bigoted/sociopathic people.
My parents are pretty hippy-dippy granola types who have regularly volunteered for our local Green Party, so I’m obviously coming at this from a different perspective than you. I like to think I’d have ended up at the same conclusions I have even if I grew up with super conservative parents, but I’d probably be pretty different.
So props to you for doing the hard work of detaching yourself from those mindsets. Of course, we all absorb some bullshit through society at large (heck I even remember, when I was just a kid, my dad making occasional “jokes” about how Indigenous people here in Canada “were lazy and got everything for free”. And my dad is rather progressive for his peer group).
But I can only imagine it must be so much harder to detach yourself from that if your family is completely immersed into the kind of rhetoric the right has been pushing for years now.
Virtue signaling, political correctness, woke, they’ve used a bunch of terms over the years and I don’t doubt they’ll eventually move on from woke to another term they use to mock anyone with empathy.
My brain is just now upon seeing this post processing why right-wingers always accuse the left of virtue signaling; as always with conservatives, it’s projection. They virtue signal by wearing crosses while definitely not giving a hoot about the teachings of Jesus.
They can’t imagine someone sincerely supporting a cause they care about and assume we all only do it for recognition among our peers, because that’s the way they use causes. To signal to the in-group that we are one of them.
This comment connects the dots so incredibly well compared with what I see from my angry conservative family.
Fuuuck, that is exactly the mindset I was raised to have, and which I very much had during my angry teenage years. Fortunately that was a long-ass time ago and in the decades since I’ve had everything from college to the internet to let me consider the thoughts and arguments of other less angry/hateful/bigoted/sociopathic people.
My parents are pretty hippy-dippy granola types who have regularly volunteered for our local Green Party, so I’m obviously coming at this from a different perspective than you. I like to think I’d have ended up at the same conclusions I have even if I grew up with super conservative parents, but I’d probably be pretty different.
So props to you for doing the hard work of detaching yourself from those mindsets. Of course, we all absorb some bullshit through society at large (heck I even remember, when I was just a kid, my dad making occasional “jokes” about how Indigenous people here in Canada “were lazy and got everything for free”. And my dad is rather progressive for his peer group).
But I can only imagine it must be so much harder to detach yourself from that if your family is completely immersed into the kind of rhetoric the right has been pushing for years now.
they dont call it virtue signalling, they call it woke.
Virtue signaling, political correctness, woke, they’ve used a bunch of terms over the years and I don’t doubt they’ll eventually move on from woke to another term they use to mock anyone with empathy.
they still use woke, VS used by other than conservative most of the time. woke is primarily used by cons, and cons pretending to be on the other side.