"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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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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What is the ultimate neoliberal virtue signal??
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Taco trucks on every corner?
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Similarly, sometimes signaling your virtue or team membership helps your non-standard opinion be taken more seriously bc Alex Jones types can be ignored. Eg I’m not a climate denier but reducing CO2 has costs...
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Not sometimes - almost all the time. That’s virtue in most cases: “I’m on your team and not on their team.” Actual virtue and bucking the norm is extremely rare (just as one should expect).
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My question is, if it's all signaling, who values the signal? If the signal is total BS, then it'd be a pretty unstable equilibrium.
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If your behavior shows you don’t believe the things you are saying, it looks like its fakepic.twitter.com/lmmDO3HjSg
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