"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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There's nothing more earnest, powerful, and scary than a subculture that gets swept up in a runaway virtue-signaling fad. That's exactly the problem, and everybody knows it.
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NOTHING MORE SCARY than... checks notes....people displaying large amounts of empathy and ethics.
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The Kavanaugh nomination was an example of selective empathy, but I’m still angry at the left for not showing any empathy towards Kavanaugh’s family (women and children) and even Amy Chua (woman of color) who they drug through the mud to get at Kavanaugh while she was in hospital
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I think you should be less angry at people who choose to limit their empathy for those who are rich and powerful, and prefer to save it for victims and the marginalized in society.
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Or maybe even if we dislike the person and their ideologies, get over the idea that their ideology/the person would never say anything good? Imo, most of the popular ideologies including ones I think are very harmful have some interesting and beneficial ideas within them.
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What does that say of Reihan Salam if we turn that conclusion on him. Is he simple GOP hack, or a member of a species of Conservatism that will burn the world rather than co-operate with Liberals and Social Democrats.
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The thing about Never Trump conservatives is that they don’t actually have to take a stand on cooperation with liberals and the left because they’re powerless. That’s part of the appeal of the position, I think
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The Crucible by Arthur Miller describes this awful aspect of human nature pretty well. It's both fake and real. Performative and heartfelt.
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I always thought virtue signaling required a lack of skin in the game. Like the Berkeley liberal who is all for helping the homeless as long as it doesn’t hurt the character of their neighborhood. Swift took a risk and put herself out there.
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Is this accelerated by group polarization? I.e. individuals wanting to make the next leap to a higher degree of “wokeness”.
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That's true in many ways, though there are people at these protests on the campuses who are just going along for the ride, and when questioned as to why they're protesting the person it becomes clear they haven't got a clue. Those people do represent a problem
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Oh that’s not my actual mental model of the other team, but I pretend that it is to fit in with my team.
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Virtue signaling is what I did on my final exam when I took a class from a militant leftist. I made sure the word "racist" appeared in each paragraph. I got a A.
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Virtue signaling is a guy in college whose family once owned thousands of slaves in the Caribbean lecturing me, the great grandchild of peasant farmers why Christopher Columbus is responsible for slavery.
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Virtue signaling is a white person saying, "I hate white people." (I've heard it in San Francisco)
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Chris Rock has a famous bit called Niggers vs Black people. Sometimes language allows for self-deprication in a way that outsiders don't immediately recognize
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Sure, but we don't tell African Americans to shut up when they are offended by black comedians using the N-word.
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