• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You want a genuine real world example? I’ll give you two.

    Remember in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea? Actress AnnaLynne McCord reacted via a textbook virtue signaling poem about being Putin’s mom.

    More recently, Nancy Pelosi reacted to all American women losing their constitutional right to bodily autonomy by reciting another poem that did not help anyone and then singing about how beautiful the country is on some stairs with the Washington Voices of Virtue (vote for us) Choir.

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      10 months ago

      So people writing poetry to express themselves about issues they literally have no control over (No, Nancy Pelosi can’t overturn Supreme Court decisions) is virtue signaling? So virtue signaling is just any time someone expresses that they would prefer a different world? I mean, come on, that’s not virtue signaling. That’s just self expression.

      Didn’t you say something about it being when you signal you want a virtuous act to happen rather than actually doing the act yourself? What’s Nancy Pelosi gonna do? Assassinate Clarence Thomas? What control is that model lady supposed to be neglecting that she has over Putin? You’re using this term to removed about things you don’t like. This is just how I said conservatives use the term - to express that they’re offended without having to say they are.

      P.S Saying goodbye in a conversation generally means the conversation is over, not that you’re gonna come back and complain that “the darn leftist women are doing poetry I don’t like”… Again, wowee we’re really going after the important topics in life.

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        10 months ago

        wowee we’re really going after the important topics in life.

        Look! It’s becoming self-aware!