How “Virtue Signalling” Is Collapsing Society

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Virtue signalling is annoying, but what makes my eyes roll down the street is how suddenly everyone becomes an expert in that thing. I genuinely had no idea that there were so many people who are experts in race, virology, economics, socio economics, immigration, and international politics all at the same time. A truly enlightened age we live in.

As a Nigerian, i have come to see that social justice and virtue signaling can only exist in a developed first world country with very few problems or threats. So, people, especially in urban areas, have bo purpose and need something to do and tend to create tension in their lives. That's why social justice and virtue signaling always fails and creates more problems.

Being virtuous is like being humble, if you feel the need to tell people it pretty much becomes null & void.

Giving to charity (aka generosity) is a virtue. When you do it privately. When it's done publicly, the virtuous nature is reduced because it becomes more about the person being generous instead of the generosity alone. There are few reasons to be generous publicly beyond getting pats on the back for it. Granted, it can be used to inspire generosity in others, but the peer support is unavoidable. That support taints the perspective of the motives for being generous. Like... imagine a person donates a bunch of money to charity over the course of their life, but no one knows about it until the person dies. That is often looked at with more admiration than a person who donates significantly more money, but flaunts it online for clout. And/or the tax break. Virtue is what you do because of what you feel is right regardless of public praise. Virtue signaling is what you do specifically for public praise. What separates the two is marketing.

Virtue signaling isn't new, social media just amplifies our voices in this era hence why we think it's a new thing

I remember when ISIS attacked Paris and everyone on Facebook changed their profile picture to one with a french flag. As if that does anything other than stroke your ego

Social media is the worst thing to happen this century.

Virtues and morals are best described as the things we do and think when nobody else is around. They are private and internal things. Signalling them in public, by their very nature, ceases them.

I'm old enough to remember the Christian virtue signalling; you know the evangelists with private jets, the purity rings and all that stuff. When the local Karens were all fanatic Christians, and powerful enough to cancel TV shows or video games.

I don’t see anything inherently wrong with identifying with a certain thing. I think the problem arises when you don’t back that up with action and/or use it only has a self-esteem boost

0:26 "We dont care, youre a soap company" sums it up pretty good lol

so bottom line, virtue signalling is wanting to be seen as a "good person" without putting in any effort? basically just confirming what 99.99% of us already knew. & 2020 was most definitely the worst when it came to that sort of thing.

The worst thing we ever did was give any person a platform

As a Ukrainian I find it very helpful that celebrities do publicly support our right of self-defence. Famous people expressing opinions influence their followers and eventually politicians. Politicians vote for support and that in turn saves lives of Ukrainians. Yes, 20% of our territory is still occupied, millions of Ukrainians are refugees and it will take much more efforts to make the situation better. But it could have been much much worse and it still can get worse if we lose the support that we need so desperately. So sorry, despite I do like most of the other videos on this channel, I'm afraid this video misses the point a little bit.

I liked how honest this video was about how normal virtue signaling is

Then there are those of us that just do our own thing and face accusations when we dont pick a side publicly. Just because i dont actively say i support something or not doesnt mean i don't have morals. And to then accuse me of choosing a side because i asked questions? Madness.

It’s not “virtue signaling” that’s the true issue. It’s that 99% of the time what’s being signaled isn’t virtuous. It’s vacuous, platitudinous, and immoral. Signaling true virtue can have it’s place if it leads by example and inspires others or brings to light a worthy cause and raises public awareness.

Daaammnn, those virtue wrist bands brought back so much nostalgia of the early 2000s. I remember I was between 8 to 11 years old when they were popular around 2005 and the few years after it. I even still have a HUGE bag of different wrist bands with all kinds of statements in them I didn't understand at the time.

Can't believe you didn't highlight the Canadian government accidentally giving a standing ovation to a Nazi.