"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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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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Citations? I'm not a specialist in the philosophy of mind, but I'm petty sure that no philosophers of mind or cognitive scientists accept this account of belief.
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Basically the Cultural Cognition theory. http://www.culturalcognition.net/
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Ok, I'm on board with a lot of this, but i think it's a mistake to say that a positive emotional state in social contexts is just what belief is. That's not what belief IS, that's what belief DOES. Belief is something like stable high credence.
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What's "credence"?
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I mean, besides a rock band.
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It's a dispositional mental state. Part of the dispositions that characterize the mental state might be to have certain emotions in certain contexts, but don't confuse the cause and the effect. Saying that belief is a positive emotion in social contexts is like...
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...saying that water is dissolving salt. Same kind of category error. Belief is representational, and a purely affective account of belief can't account for the representational nature of belief.
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None of the words you've said in response to my question makes any sense to me. "Dispositional mental state". "Representational". These mean nothing to me.
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I do get ever so irritated at people repeating their tribal identity signals as if they're policy ideas though.
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They are policy ideas.
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You can't take just anything and call it "belief". If the original premise is people are saying things they know are false because it affects their ingroup status, you're just reinforcing that.
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What's funny to me is that when someone announces that they hate virtue signalling, they are signalling a virtue to their own tribe. The virtue of hating virtue signalling.
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Sometimes. But too often we see examples of woke male feminists sexually assaulting/harrasing women. Maybe this is an example of projecting rather than VS, but it's hard to argue they believe the things they say in these instances
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You're making an unwarranted assumption that everyone who says "woke" things and purports to support "woke" policies does in fact believe those "woke" things. Exhibit A:https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/harvey-weinstein-and-the-danger-of-performative-wokeness_us_59d6b43be4b0f6eed34f421e …
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I agree with all of this, but I also think it's helpful to point out that the act of discrediting frees up the accusers from any guilt they had in the critiqued conduct.
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