Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co...
by dools on Thursday July 14, 2022 @10:51AM
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Virtue signalling is a term made up by a hard right libertarian propagandist writing for the spectator as a means of silencing progressive voices online. It’s a bullshit term for which we already had a perfectly good word: hypocrisy
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Re:Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her co...
by Karunamon on Thursday July 14, 2022 @12:47PM
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Hypocrisy is insufficiently precise. It is possible to disingenuously engage in any particular activity. If you wish to describe a specific behavior, then a better descriptor is necessary. On top of that, not all virtue signaling is necessarily disingenuous.
And all terms are made up, and the political leanings of the person who supposedly coined the phrase is irrelevant to its applicability.