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Re:How to Stop the Corporate Virtue-Signaling Before It’s To... by s9w on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @08:11AM (#18440652)
Virtue signalling is not about being virtuous. The other, much more important part, is the signalling. The impulse of companites/people/etc to brag about being virtous only to appear in a better light. A bit like vegeratians who often can't resist the temptation to tell the world that they're better.
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Re:How to Stop the Corporate Virtue-Signaling Before It’s To... by thecrash on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @09:54AM (#18441343)
Yes, at the core of the "virtue signalling" philosophy is the idea that nobody _actually_ holds virtuous values. There are only two kinds of people: those who are honest about being selfish jerks, and hypocrites who disguise their selfishness using "virtue signalling".

It's reminiscent of the psychopath world-view, actually.

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Re:How to Stop the Corporate Virtue-Signaling Before It’s To... by eeZah7Ux on Sunday November 18, 2018 @12:11PM (#18481353)
Spot on. The English language had plenty of words to express concepts as "bragging", "showing off", and so on.

"virtue signalling" has been quickly turn into a dog whistle within the alt-right.

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Re:How to Stop the Corporate Virtue-Signaling Before It’s To... by s9w on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:30AM (#18441664)
No, lucozade put it well: Being virtuous is unrelated to saying you are. That does not mean that saying you're virtuous means you are not. Simply that there is no causal connection.
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