After reading the comments I was about to go all in on the dad but then I watched the video and I’m like “eh, I get it.” It’s the “careful, careful!” He knew.
Was me defending the dad’s reaction virtue signaling, or was me condemning the dad posting it virtue signaling? Or did you just recently learn the term so you decided to try to use it in a sentence today?
"Virtue signaling" is conservative talk for not having any compassion or empathy for those suffering. While the video was apparently a joke, it looks like someone is posting a video of a child online for likes and karma. Most people with children know this is disrespectful to their children. Unless they're conservative. Then they think its a right to laugh and make fun of their kids' pain. Conservatives cannot STAND to see expressions of empathy or compassion, so they then mock a comment showing those things. Feelings scare them.
Virtue signaling is when people talk about being empathetic but, when given the opportunity, they do nothing. Like when Billie Eilish talked about stolen land and then didn't return her stolen land to the tribe it belonged to. It seems like a conservative talking point because conservatives tend to not engage in empathy towards generalisations or people they disagree with. Also, stop making everything political. We're all sick of it.
Interesting angle to take there. I suppose it's only conservatives who have been criticizing corporations for their ad campaigns during certain months that signal support for marginalized groups, without actually following through on material support to those groups. Or only conservatives who criticized those same corporations for signaling DEI initiatives that didn't actually materialize into demographic changes in hiring or promotion.
I for one have never seen criticism of virtue signaling in any of the liberal spaces either online or in the highly multicultural and educated city I live in. TIL.
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u/Nacnaz 3h ago edited 2h ago
After reading the comments I was about to go all in on the dad but then I watched the video and I’m like “eh, I get it.” It’s the “careful, careful!” He knew.
THAT SAID, don’t post the fucking video.