Yea, so, it’s actually ok to signal your virtues. It’s not ok if you’re lying, but just about every single person I’ve heard talk about like it’s some great evil is extremely aggressive in doing it for their own scummy values, is very often hypocritical about them, and only complains when they hear someone speak about kindness. Pretty much every single right-wing campaign and internet meme is just completely empty virtue signalling, for example. It’s all just a show so people can feel tough because they’re piss-scared of of actually being tough and standing up against an abusive authority.
It really isn’t, but maybe you just don’t get it. Unfortunately, the reality of our current situation is that nuance is a luxury reserved for when your worst likely option is still somewhat decent, and you’re arguing details. At the moment, it’s just half the world telling the other half to go fuck themselves for asking for basic respect and rights and both halves are getting rat-fucked by the rich.
So yea, when someone gets confused by how another could be radicalized a lot of us just tiredly go “how the fuck aren’t you?!”
Yea, so, it’s actually ok to signal your virtues. It’s not ok if you’re lying, but just about every single person I’ve heard talk about like it’s some great evil is extremely aggressive in doing it for their own scummy values, is very often hypocritical about them, and only complains when they hear someone speak about kindness. Pretty much every single right-wing campaign and internet meme is just completely empty virtue signalling, for example. It’s all just a show so people can feel tough because they’re piss-scared of of actually being tough and standing up against an abusive authority.
The meme in OP is too vague to actually mean anything though
It really isn’t, but maybe you just don’t get it. Unfortunately, the reality of our current situation is that nuance is a luxury reserved for when your worst likely option is still somewhat decent, and you’re arguing details. At the moment, it’s just half the world telling the other half to go fuck themselves for asking for basic respect and rights and both halves are getting rat-fucked by the rich.
So yea, when someone gets confused by how another could be radicalized a lot of us just tiredly go “how the fuck aren’t you?!”