Chris is.Dec 11
I think that by designating “virtue signalling” as “cringe” we’ve left ourselves with only “vice signalling”
Show threadGlyphDec 11

@offby1 who's "we" kimosabe?

From the beginning, "virtue signaling" as a neologism was used by conservatives to denigrate progressive efforts to do good things. The man credited with popularizing, if not coining, the term in 2015, has a very specific biography, which you may find interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bartholomew_(journalist)

James Bartholomew (journalist) - Wikipedia

Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowDec 11
@glyph @offby1 It says so much that, like "social justice" or "woke," the right-wing appropriated a term that by all means should have been something positive and turned it negative without substantially changing its meaning. If I just told some what any of those terms meant in a cultural vacuum, chances are if they were even halfway decent, they'd go "oh, yeah, being aware of shit, caring about justice, and letting other people know you care are all good things!"
Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowDec 11
@glyph @offby1 Like, mostly the right-wing seems to even agree with those definitions, they just see them as objects of derision. Which is wild to me.
Show threadGlyph
@xgranade @offby1 every time a conservative derides “woke” I still think of the evil aliens in Dark City menacingly chanting “sleep now”
Dec 11 at 1:23amToot!
Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowDec 11

@glyph @offby1 Right? Somehow I feel like that should really strike people, what does it mean to be "anti-woke"?

But then again, no one ever does the math on what it means to be anti-antifa either, so who the fuck knows. Words don't mean things, it seems.