"Competitive wokeness", like "virtue signaling" and "preference falsification", seems to be something people on the right say in order to pretend that people on the left don't really believe what they claim to believe.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1050424810591936512 …
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"Virtue signaling" isn't fake or pretend. It's real. "Virtue", when it comes right down to it, means membership on a team. Sometimes, to prove you're on a team, it helps to say something people on the other team could never bring themselves to say.
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That doesn't mean people don't believe the things they say when they signal team membership. They DO believe them. It's just that the "belief" is the rush of good feeling from knowing that you have a team.
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An extremist is just a normal person in extreme circumstances. And group conflict, be it an army or a gang or a political movement or a Twitter mob, is an extreme situation.
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All this is to say, if your mental model of the opposing team is that they're a bunch of fakers trying to show off in front of each other...well, odds are you're wrong. It's probably something much more honest, much more powerful, and potentially much scarier, than that. (end)
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Retweeted just for the all caps
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This emotive theory of beliefs of yours, the analytic philosophers will surely pull you to the side and have a talk with you.
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Sure. But the point is unchanged... that at some point the cooperative signaling and rush becomes more important than reasoned morality. I wld suggest that moral panics (many examples) and Sokal squared are prime examples of this. Of course similar issues arise other side too.
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Mob Wokeness ? Why not? since woke is being misused as a synonym for feelings & beliefs Woke about immigration or semitics or Arab semitics is giving them a cover of legitimacy :-(
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Climate Change is the most cooperative wokeness issue of our time. Group think without thinking is a requirement to join the debate.
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Cooperative competitive wokeness. It's a team sport.
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