Opinion: Virtue signaling is good because virtue is good and expressing your concept of virtue in a public way can serve as a persuasive tactic to convince others to adopt it
i guess it depends on whether you think an environment where preference falsification cascades have made cheap performativity essentially mandatory is hunky-dory or not
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Again, the fact that you can't reliably (or at scale) disambiguate what is and isn't performative makes this point moot. The other issue is that on platforms that only allow for performativity (I.e. the internet), that may be the best you can get.
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that isn't entirely true because you do see people fighting over the amount of time and energy they spend volunteering or protesting or what-have-you, which is virtue signal authentication, but close