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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by echoangle on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:38AM (#42681351)
It’s certainly sometimes used that way. But the real meaning is something like „making sure everyone knows how moral you are without making a lot of effort to actually be moral, just by telling everyone“.
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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by dkdbejwi383 on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:39AM (#42681698)
By that definition the linked article doesn't fit, then. The author has put a lot of effort into research and writing about this subject. The "morality" part is a relatively small part of it, just a single paragraph in the conclusion.
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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by echoangle on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:46AM (#42681737)
I’m not saying that it’s virtue signaling, I was just criticizing the bad arguments against the claim that it was.
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