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When did virtue signaling become a pastime?

Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:11 pm
Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
1099 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:11 pm
The rise of MSM, social media? The rise of counter culture? The rise of modern day liberalism? The 60s?

It just reveals how brainwashed certain demographics are. And that some people are desperate to be accepted.

All it takes is one useful idiot, of course, to take it too far.
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 6:37 pm
Posted by stuntman
Florida
Member since Jan 2013
10420 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:13 pm to
Struggle sessions have always been a thing w/ communists. Humiliation rituals are kind of their thing.
Posted by BlueFalcon
Aberdeen Scotland
Member since Dec 2011
3353 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:15 pm to
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When did virtue signaling become a pastime?


When the hippies took over
Posted by SoFlaGuy
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Apr 2020
2343 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:17 pm to
Can anyone explain what Virtue Signaling means?
Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
1099 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:20 pm to
Wearing masks after COVID when it’s been proven they are ineffective. Protesting events, having no idea what they are protesting. Churches bowing down to LGBTQ causes. ETC.

People trying to make themselves appear acceptable in front of others… but they usually don’t understand that they are acting like idiots.
This post was edited on 10/22/25 at 6:25 pm
Posted by SoFlaGuy
Fort Lauderdale
Member since Apr 2020
2343 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:22 pm to
So retard shite, got it.
Posted by Ham Solo
Member since Apr 2015
8166 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:23 pm to
Gamergate was the beginning. It became a sport around the 2016 Hillary/Trump election. After that it just became obnoxious.
Posted by Speckhunter2012
Lake Charles
Member since Dec 2012
8099 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:28 pm to
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So retard shite, got it.


White, leftist women feeling sorry for some criminal that is being deported for raping women, kids or even men when they have been locked up in the past.
And then making an IG or FB post saying how mean ICE and OMB are.

Yeah, retard shite.
Posted by SoFla Tideroller
South Florida
Member since Apr 2010
38541 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:35 pm to
Upon passage of the 19th Amendment
Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
1099 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 6:35 pm to
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Posted by Kracka
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2004
42028 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:23 pm to
Social media because they get instant validation or instant drama. That’s what they crave.
Posted by scott8811
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
12993 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:38 pm to
Its easily the weirdest thing about the left to me...at least the really deranged ones. Have one acquaintance who I swear has no personality or interests outside of being liberal/virtue signaling. She does a Facebook live daily ranting about Trump or some gov issue... her profile picture was her at a Shreveport mardi gras parade wearing a giant sign that said "I will help you access abortion services" who the frick is looking for that there?? Purely performative which is dumb but makes sense for shite like a "no kings rally" or whatever....but how do you live life going... oh there's a parade today... how can I make this about politics!
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
85148 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:39 pm to
Much easier to cash app or Venmo protesters.


Posted by Neutral Underground
Member since Mar 2024
2631 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:39 pm to
Even Al Capone handed out turkeys to the neighborhood so people thought of him as Robin Hood and not a Gangster. Doing any good deed just for the publicity could be considered Virtue Signaling. It's what you do when no one is looking is what defines you
Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
1099 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:40 pm to
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Posted by 21blackjack
Member since Oct 2025
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Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:41 pm to
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Posted by mwade91383
Washington DC
Member since Mar 2010
7118 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:41 pm to
It won’t go away until people realize nobody cares about hypocrisy anymore.

It’s just tribalism now.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
85148 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:45 pm to
This is true. A lot of people have done performative good deeds.

This virtue signaling became a thing with social media.

Like putting a black square on your profile. But have actually done nothing.
Posted by dgnx6
Member since Feb 2006
85148 posts
Posted on 10/22/25 at 7:53 pm to
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It won’t go away until people realize nobody cares about hypocrisy anymore. It’s just tribalism now.


This is true too.

If you don’t post the virtue signal you can’t be friends anymore. Or you might not want to be friends with the person signaling I’m morally superior to you because of what’s on my Facebook profile.
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