LogFAQs > #952622438

I've always found virtue signaling to be a weird phrase. Like, okay, sure. You don't like people tooting their own horn or whatever. I get it. But if you're complaining about "virtue signaling" doesn't that imply you're signaling a lack of virtue yourself? Why have we allowed the right to politicize and demonize the word "virtue" into something negative?

Whenever I see people label individuals as "virtue signaling" what they're really saying is that they don't stand for anything, only against something. And that something happens to be virtue. It's like this weird thing where they are self-admitting to being an asshole, but are being smugly self-righteous about it.

I do think in regards to corporate pandering you can apply the phrase "virtue signaling" but even then, I find phrases like "performative gesture" are more accurate.