What the hell is virtue signalling?
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Any action taken primarily to show to others you support a certain cause or action, as opposed to simply doing so.
For example, someone who gives money to homeless people isn’t virtue signalling, but someone who posts online that they give money to homeless people is. Someone who gives money to a homeless person so they can later post online photos of themselves giving money to homeless people is doing something good, but also virtue signalling.
Note that attempting to gain outside support for a cause, such as people who collect for charity, aren’t necessarily virtue signallling, if their primary motivation is to actually get others to help as opposed to trying to gain recognition for their own contributions.
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