Re: Virtue signalling a term used by the far right to try and shame morality.
Originally posted by Putinbot1
The Far-Right has two problems in its attempts on social media to break previously almost universally held concepts of morality and equality.The first is the vernacular used to describe the far-right; once used, they are labelled as what they are and their power is removed as certain names hold a great historic power to shame.
The second is many views are almost universal even on social media, where they have through constant shaming attempted to remove sentiment and make people feel that deeply held ideas are actually not deeply held, such as equality of sex, race etc. and when moral people state this is immoral as good people should never stand by and do nothing when confronted with evil, rightists try and shame those idea's they have no answer to as virtue signalling. It isn't and equality isn't wrong.
Women, Muslims and ethnic minorities are not evil, although each group can have evil people in it. I even believe occasionally rightists can be good people, misguided, but good.
I disagree with you somewhat and I think you'll agree with argument. 🙂
Virtue Signaling - A term originally used by leftists to mock the religious conservatives especially the hypocritical Christian Evangelicals.
Just lately, the SJW crap has taken off in the last 20 years. It is a cultural explosion from the 90s ultra-politically-correct race that made the sweeps through government, education, and corporations from the 80s-90s. What we are seeing is the children of the 80s and 90s, raised with this ultra politically correct beliefs, becoming adults and these adults having children who are almost adults.
And now, due to the decades of this SJW stuff, the virtue signaling has gotten out of hand and we got Trump as a result. Trump is the backlash, the counter-culture, to this SJW virtue signaling trend. And the SJWs appear to be entrenched and difficult to change. While the younger people, the Gen Zs, are casually calling each other "nigga" all the time for no rhyme or reason. Something even my generation didn't do despite how relaxed they were.
Until the SJWs age out or change, we will keep seeing people like Trump and Kanye having a strong voice and power. People will continue to say and do counter-culture things. The anti-Politically Correct people are the modern day hippies. The counter-culture.