{"id":34181,"date":"2016-01-25T02:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34181"},"modified":"2018-09-27T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T15:45:15","slug":"virtue-signaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/01\/25\/virtue-signaling\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue signalling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Acculturated<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/acculturated.com\/virtue-signaling\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Judge<\/a> outlines one of the more irritating ways that the &#8220;great and the good&#8221; show how much better they are than us uncultured, boorish masses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>British author James Bartholomew has secured his place in history. Recently, he invented the perfect phrase for our times: \u201cvirtue signaling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virtue signaling is the popular modern habit of indicating that one has virtue merely by expressing disgust or favor for certain political ideas, cultural happenings, or even the weather. When a liberal goes on a tirade about how dumb and dangerous Senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is \u2014 a tirade devoid of specific examples of Cruz\u2019s mendacity \u2014 that person is actually signaling to others that he or she is virtuous. It has very little to do with Cruz\u2019s actually personality or record.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities who publicly express panic about the environment without knowing much about science are virtue signaling. So are those who seize on current events to publicize their supposedly virtuous feelings, as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg did recently when he wrote on Facebook: \u201cIf you\u2019re a Muslim in this community, as the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here and that we will fight to protect your rights and create a peaceful and safe environment for you.\u201d Well, that\u2019s a relief\u2014Facebook won\u2019t be banning Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The New Left of the 1960s was more about rage than reason, and they passed their anger down to their Millennial offspring. Often the entire front page of left-leaning websites like <em>Slate<\/em> and <em>Salon<\/em> are nothing but virtue signaling, the headlines all variations of: Celebrity\/Politician\/Activist A Just Destroyed the Homophobic\/Sexist\/Racist Idiocy of Politician B. Usually the articles are jeremiads without much reporting. If research is going to buzzkill your virtue signaling, well then, to hell with research.<\/p>\n<p>But then, virtue signaling is not about journalism. It\u2019s a way to vent your anger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Acculturated, Mark Judge outlines one of the more irritating ways that the &#8220;great and the good&#8221; show how much better they are than us uncultured, boorish masses: British author James Bartholomew has secured his place in history. Recently, he invented the perfect phrase for our times: \u201cvirtue signaling.\u201d Virtue signaling is the popular modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53],"tags":[58,956,351,1020,1238],"class_list":["post-34181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-internet","tag-millennials","tag-politicalcorrectness","tag-progressives","tag-virtuesignalling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8Tj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45096,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34181\/revisions\/45096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}