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Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file... by faeriechangling on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:32AM (#40236746)
I feel "Virtue signalling" isn't really fair when they have so much skin in the game here. That's evidence of sincerity rather than disingenuousness, agree or disagree with them.

Unless the definition of virtue signalling is so expansive as to be meaningless, where every act of protest which is not anonymous is virtue signalling.

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Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file... by gitfan86 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:26PM (#40241538)
The consequence of their actions is that they receive high social status from people with similar politics and Google makes zero changes to their contracts with Israel. And that was obviously going to be the result of these actions.

If you want to attribute their actions to a genuine desire to help the Palestinians, that is fine.

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Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file... by faeriechangling on Friday May 03, 2024 @12:47PM (#40249687)
You know, accusing others of virtue signalling can itself be a form of virtue signalling.
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Re:Google workers fired for protesting Israeli contract file... by gitfan86 on Friday May 03, 2024 @05:43PM (#40252726)
Ok, but how is that relevant to the Google employees motives?

Are you just changing the subject?

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