Virtue-signalling tip

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Post a photo of your old junk (that you can't be bothered taking to the landfill) on a Facebook community page and say you are 'giving it away to those in need', then sit back and bask in all the plaudits and back-patting that will inevitably follow.

[Walker]

No need to give up your stuff to virtue signal. The important thing is to demonize others who say they will not give up their stuff. Call them unwoke deniers, and you need not even specify what they deny. In the meantime you can keep your stuff. This proven template already exists in many applications.

For instance, climate virtue signalers need not actually do anything, need not actually give up their car-driving, plane-flying, energy-consuming lifestyles. To virtue signal they only need to use words to demonize those who say there is no need to give up these things.

For instance, Bernie Sanders need not actually live like the proletariat. To virtue signal, he need only assert that everyone must live like the proletariat, and then demonize those who say that's not necessary.

Virtue signaling is based on what one says, not on what one actually does.

So keep your stuff if you please, but if it’s just worn out junk and you’re throwing it out then it is still possible to amp up your virtue-cred by demonizing as deniers those who keep their junk, but what you actually do doesn't matter so much in the virtue signaling racket.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

No need to give up your stuff to virtue signal. The important thing is to demonize others who say they will not give up their stuff. Call them unwoke deniers, and you need not even specify what they deny. In the meantime you can keep your stuff. This proven template already exists in many applications.

For instance, climate virtue signalers need not actually do anything, need not actually give up their car-driving, plane-flying, energy-consuming lifestyles. To virtue signal they only need to use words to demonize those who say there is no need to give up these things.

For instance, Bernie Sanders need not actually live like the proletariat. To virtue signal, he need only assert that everyone must live like the proletariat, and then demonize those who say that's not necessary.

Virtue signaling is based on what one says, not on what one actually does.

So keep your stuff if you please, but if it’s just worn out junk and you’re throwing it out then it is still possible to amp up your virtue-cred by demonizing as deniers those who keep their junk, but what you actually do doesn't matter so much in the virtue signaling racket.

But the beauty of it is that you are not 'actually' giving up anything. You get to palm off all your old crap without having to pay landfill fees, and at the same time let everyone know what a 'good person' you are. Think of all the 'hearts' and, at the very least, 'likes' you will get.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Poor, disabled guy posts to Facebook page asking for help moving his stuff to another place nearby. Post attracts many virtue-signallers with comments like 'no prob mate, I'll be there' (earning many hearts in the process).
Poor, disabled guy posts another thread saying no one turned up, and that 'people around here are not very nice'.
Result: Poor, disabled guy gets mobbed and bullied off the page (by habitual virtue-signallers).
'Virtue-signalling' is my favourite modern expression. Whoever coined it deserves a Nobel prize for services to humanity (if there were one).

Tip: Post comments offering to help others in need, then don't do it. No one will be any the wiser (or even care). The main thing was to get those hearts and likes.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Walker: Kindly do not use my glorious thread to push your own political agenda. This is not about political persuasion. It's about social commentary and the present day human condition

[surreptitious57]

Sometimes people do actually help but virtue signalling just for the sake of it is both narcissistic and superfluous
I hope someone does eventually help that disabled man since he does not deserve to be let down like that at all

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Sometimes people do actually help but virtue signalling just for the sake of it is both narcissistic and superfluous
I hope someone does eventually help that disabled man since he does not deserve to be let down like that at all

'Virtue-signalling' is shallow and narcissistic by definition. If they had actually helped it wouldn't be virtue-signalling.
Interesting aside is that the man has nearly 200 Facebook 'friends'.

[Walker]

Walker: Kindly do not use my glorious thread to push your own political agenda. This is not about political persuasion. It's about social commentary and the present day human condition

Deceitful political persuasion has become the coin of virtue signaling, a banner for the present day human condition. Odd that you would want to exclude one of the most egregious virtue-signaling deceptions in existence, i.e., the baseless, consensus demonization of Donald J. Trump, POTUS, a sociological movement that eclipses the delusion of the Tulip craze. MeThinks your entreaty and insistence on a rubbish theme in place of a more wide-ranging, impactful application of the virtue-signaling principle is a high hope to prevent what befell A Christian Is … thread, and if this wee bit of truth spells the demise of glorious, then apologies.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Walker: Kindly do not use my glorious thread to push your own political agenda. This is not about political persuasion. It's about social commentary and the present day human condition

Deceitful political persuasion has become the coin of virtue signaling, a banner for the present day human condition. Odd that you would want to exclude one of the most egregious virtue-signaling deceptions in existence, i.e., the baseless, consensus demonization of Donald J. Trump, POTUS, a sociological movement that eclipses the delusion of the Tulip craze. MeThinks your entreaty and insistence on a rubbish theme in place of a more wide-ranging, impactful application of the virtue-signaling principle is a high hope to prevent what befell A Christian Is … thread, and if this wee bit of truth spells the demise of glorious, then apologies.

Of course. I forgot that Donald Trump is the be all and end all of human civilisation as we know it. He is everything to everyone. We cannot have a thought without 'the Donald' being the focus of it. Trump is everything. We all give a shit about Trump.

[Impenitent]

double plus virtue on they who advertise their virtue...

rejoice! the herd gives you meaning...

make sure you give more myrrh...

-Imp

[Walker]

Of course. I forgot that Donald Trump is the be all and end all of human civilisation as we know it. He is everything to everyone. We cannot have a thought without 'the Donald' being the focus of it. Trump is everything. We all give a shit about Trump.

Well isn't that special. A classic case of sarcastically virtue signaling.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Of course. I forgot that Donald Trump is the be all and end all of human civilisation as we know it. He is everything to everyone. We cannot have a thought without 'the Donald' being the focus of it. Trump is everything. We all give a shit about Trump.

Well isn't that special. A classic case of sarcastically virtue signaling.

Serves you right for reverting to gibberish again. Have the courage to say what you think without hiding it in a forest of fluff.

[Walker]

Like virtue-signaling, sarcasm is self-serving.

[vegetariantaxidermy]

Can't reason with the mentally ill.

[Immanuel Can]

A Ten-Step Program for Virtue Signalling.

1. Select a behaviour that is on the outer limits of social morality. (Something significantly beyond the conventionally moral, but not so far from it that you are rejected immediately.)

2. Declare it a "lifestyle," belonging to an "oppressed cultural group."

3. Declare yourself its champion and spokesperson (especially if you are not at all personally a member of that "group": this makes you seem extra generous in your advocacy for them, since you "have nothing to gain by it," ostensibly.)

4. Demonize the opposition. Pronounce all principled objections to be nothing but a product of prejudice, fear and ignorance. (Bonus points if you can invent a word ending in "-phobia.")

5. Get high-minded. Make elaborate public gestures of horror, shock and righteous indignation. (Bonus points for extravagant gestures of personal sadness and agony in public.)

6. Mobilize masses by propaganda and public shows. Yell, march, chant, picket, bully and rant. Elicit help from the press. Get support from academia, through phony "studies" of the problem. (Bonus points if you can find a way to justify the use of violence -- it suggests that the "oppression" is so bad that any measures at all are justified in opposition to it, and positions you as a true radical for freedom who will do all it takes.)

7. Double down until you win. Compel your society to drop all opposition to the behaviour. (Fatigue is your ally: inevitably, people will get weary of dealing with you, and lapse into a que sera sera attitude...then you will have them.)

8. Heap guilt and recrimination on the vanquished society. Remind everyone that penance and reparations of an unspecified length and intensity will be necessary to restore their personal, moral and social virtue...but never grant that it has been restored anyway.)

9. Secure advantages. Create a special category of privilege for practitioners of the behaviour, with associated social benefits and provisions beyond those of ordinary citizens. (For example, get your own unit in public education, an "equality" quota of some kind, a special day, or a parade.)

And finally,

10. Find the next such behaviour, now on the outside limit of the NEW acceptable, and repeat the process indefinitely.