#Slacktivism and Virtue Signaling (Video)

The Saad Truth

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If you wish to demonstrate your virtuous nature, you need to emit costly signals. A signal must be handicapping to be worth its salt.

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the video discusses the evolutionary biology in signaling and how #Slacktivism is bullshite

previous, similar posts by the Gadfather

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Hashtag activism has a memory trace of a few days. People then go back to ignoring the problem. The solution requires constant engagement.

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Always be respectful. Never speak from a place of hate. Be truthful and courageous. Don't be shackled by the Orwellian ethos of political correctness.

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The symbolism of hashtag activism & changing your FB bio to the French flag is nice but profoundly minimal. Get engaged by speaking out loudly, unapologetically, and honestly. No political correctness. No Regressive Left shackles. This is how we'll defeat the existential threat to secular liberal democracies.

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and the whopper:

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People yawn with apathy and cowardly silence whilst innumerable human beings are butchered on a daily basis. The solutions are as clear as the existence of gravity. And yet, people refuse to acknowledge the problem lest they might be sent to PC jail. I have been warning people for well over a decade. You might "escape" the reality but your children and grandchildren won't...

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you should all read his academic work (in consumer-based evolutionary psychology) because he is great and the actual work is amazing, but he also does a lot of work against SJWs and PC culture. he is also outspoken towards totalitarian belief systems on college campuses. Gad Saad should be the guy leading the discussion on radical islam and not your typical hypocritical media member or radical professor.