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Left Wing "virtue signaling"?

Gulliver Foyle said:
It's like praying for somebody in trouble, they want to be seen to be doing something to help without having to go to the bother of expending any effort.
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I don't really have any objection to virtue signaling from people who aren't in a position to exercise much meaningful agency. It can be kinda cringey sometimes, but whatever. Stake a pride flag into your yard or make an angsty post on social media about whatever, we're all trapped in this hell society and there's very little to nothing we can as individuals do about that, so whatever. The neighbors want to "pray for me" because my house got deleted by a hurricane, sure, i'll accept that with the casseroles and whatever little else they can offer with complete gratitude.

No patience for this kind of performative nothingness from those in actual positions of power, especially for liberal politicians who want the credit for being progressive or whatever but routinely refuse to use their considerable power in a way consistent with these supposed beliefs. The worse things get, the more flamboyant the virtue signaling becomes to distract from their total lack of meaningful action.
 
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TurkeysGhost said:
I don't really have any objection to virtue signaling from people who aren't in a position to exercise much meaningful agency. It can be kinda cringey sometimes, but whatever. Stake a pride flag into your yard or make an angsty post on social media about whatever, we're all trapped in this hell society and there's very little to nothing we can as individuals do about that, so whatever. The neighbors want to "pray for me" because my house got deleted by a hurricane, sure, i'll accept that with the casseroles and whatever little else they can offer with complete gratitude.

No patience for this kind of performative nothingness from those in actual positions of power, especially for liberal politicians who want the credit for being progressive or whatever but routinely refuse to use their considerable power in a way consistent with these supposed beliefs. The worse things get, the more flamboyant the virtue signaling becomes to distract from their total lack of meaningful action.
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But what about the neigbours who will pray for you but refuse to help in any meaningful way?
 
I love it though, when this weakness is poked at by the opposing side, as if to foster the opinion: "Hey, I don't think you're doing enough to fight against cancer. I'm voting for cancer!"
 
gnome said:
I love it though, when this weakness is poked at by the opposing side, as if to foster the opinion: "Hey, I don't think you're doing enough to fight against cancer. I'm voting for cancer!"
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Hey, if cancer ran in the GOP primaries it might turn out to be the only benign candidate.
 
angrysoba said:
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I'd totally respect B&J's if they say fair enough and hand it over. Otherwise, it's hard to see it as anything other than virtue signalling.
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SO what are we non native Amercans in the US and Canada supposed to do?
Leave our homes move back to wherever our ancestors came from?
 
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dudalb said:
SO what are we non native Amercans in the US and Canada supposed to do?
Leave our homes move back to wherever our ancestors came from?
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Did you tweet that we should give back the land to the native Americans? See, that's the difference here; Ben and Jerry's actually did tweet that (although they were probably not referring to the land under their plant specifically). Now that said, there is a face-saving way to handle this; give the land to the natives but lease it back for (say) 99 years.
 
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