Current Events > Question about virtue signalling:

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So the general idea about virtue signalling is that someone will pipe up and drop their political leanings whenever they can, so that everyone knows that they're progressive and vegan and support a bunch of people, etc. We call it virtue signalling because people stop in the middle of a conversation and drop their political beliefs, so they get optics on their pet causes (which are characterised as being trendy micro-movements who the virtue signaller never actually contributes to or helps in any major fashion, only talks like they're a figurehead of it) and get to have a chest-thumping moment of pride for being a good person.

Is that not a similar process to how Trumpeters cancel celebrities who talk about Trump, or who take up issues that Trump specifically mentions to own the libs or whatever the fuck?

I remember a while ago when Robert De Niro made an appearance at the Oscars, and he did this Trump rant. Trump tweeted about him going senile in his old age and all that usual douchebag stuff, and his followers all abandoned De Niro en-masse. There was a video of a guy who had this nice framed picture of Robert De Niro, there was like a bio and everything on it, and he mentions having this framed picture for over 20 years. He films himself taking it outside to the trashcan, breaking the glass with a hammer, dismantling the frame and tearing up the picture.

Whenever there's a new issue that Trump goes after, he has a base of sycophants chasing after it yelling "MAGA!!" so they can be the base of people that deals a blow to them, so they can beat their chests and go "I'm being a proud American". Whether it's cancelling a celebrity or disowning a corporation for "SJW politics", Trump supporters always pile onto it instantly and try to stop it. They announce it loudly, they let everyone know that they're following the president. They virtue-signal - they yell about their stupid little movement and then rattle off a handful of pre-established lines about how they're making America great, so everyone knows it was the MAGA fanclub taking action in the wake of another presidential decree. Trumpeters are the biggest virtue-signallers.
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