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Comment by duxup

10 months ago

>and virtue signalling

I'm not disagreeing as I don't know what exact things you're talking about, but I find "virtue signalling" and "communication" to be very similar terms these days. From statement to statement I'm not sure what anyone means by that phrase anymore.

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ubermonkey  10 months ago

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  • duxup  10 months ago

    I like to not assume the worst, more so on HN, but I do run into a lot of situations elsewhere on the internet where "virtue signaling" just means "someone said something I don't like".

    But generally I do like to wait to understand specifically what someone means before assuming.

  • Dansvidania  10 months ago

    so how should it be called, in good faith?

    • duxup  10 months ago

      That's almost what I'm asking, knowing what they mean would help that some. It's almost peak irony when I saw people repeatedly tweeting about someone else's "virtue signaling". I honestly don't know what the difference is between whatever they thought the first person was doing vs. their action.