Virtue signalling

Yeah.

And I think for me, a particularly key point of this definition is the virtue signaling bit of the inessential weirdness, because I think there are people in the workforce that I'm in, the industry that we're in, who are all weird and who do weird things.

And I think I could subdivide the experiences I've had with those experiencing those people's weird.

where I've gone, the impression that I get from here, from person X, is that you believe that doing your weird makes you better than me.

I think we've realised that this is a new angle of... that maybe we hadn't thought about distinctly in terms of weirdness but that there are definite things that we can do to not alienate people so without going we're never going to be weird again because that would be so sad like that would be the worst

oh i don't think anyone's advocating for not being weird yeah let me take for example because i think What this is, in having this term, is making it valid to challenge some of the weird.

And I think for some people, and this is where I think it's tied into that virtue signaling thing, is that if you're in that space of virtue signaling and judging on all of this stuff, you're not open to things being questioned as, why? Whereas...

We both know people who have questioned, for example, why do we have to start forest school with a circle? They can stand in a space and question, hey, I think this might be inessential weirdness.

The show starts now.

You know the saying, you don't put a bumper sticker on a Bentley, but if you're driving around a Subaru and you've got some screws loose, the more the merrier.

And we've showed some Virtue Signal mobiles on the show before, but this one surely is the final boss.

Watch this.

Would you look at this walking billboard of dumb shit? What the fuck? Oh, hi, I'm a liberal.

We're running short of time, and I will just make one last point to the British government.

What we're seeing now is the politics of virtue signaling, because by doing everything they're doing, the British are doing nothing to advance peace and reconciliation.

Nothing.

On the contrary.

People who attack capitalism or borders often haven't lived through the hardships those systems prevent.

How does it end? With pushback against the NFL's end racism slogan as virtue signaling.

Then a gentler story about choosing kindness over pressing charges.

Small acts of grace matter more than performative outrage.

And he makes a great point.

all you're doing is stoking more division by keeping the di narrative alive and implying like hey don't be a racist come on dude really this is where i take umbrage with virtue signaling if you have a problem with something do something about it but don't say you're gonna do something about it that's what really irritates the hell out of me And I'm glad he called us out.

I am.

And good for Byron Donalds.

Yeah.

Right? Well, my theory is that there was a heavy psyop going on about virtue signaling.

Wow,

perfect.

I'll get to the second one.

So the first one that I responded to said, I'm not impressed with billionaires or trillionaires or any kind of wealth for the matter you know what impresses me care kindness grace under pressure honesty putting others first and humility that that's the post right what do you think is that is that would you consider that to be clickbait what do you think it's uh what do you think it's trying to do i mean it's a it's clearly virtue signaling right like you can see that right like uh i'm better than a billionaire or a trillionaire You know, they even like made trillionaires plural as if there's more than one trillionaire in the world.

And, you know, I think for a few moments, Elon Musk recently was a trillionaire, but I don't think he is anymore.

Right.

A couple of weeks ago, I don't know, I think I talked about on the show when I did Context Matters, which was the second show in this arc.

And I talked about specifically... understanding that because that question was arisen that came to me because it started with the whole I look at it as virtue signaling writing a post about certain groups doing better or certain genders doing better It doesn't do anything.

It doesn't change behavior.

I can't make people change their behavior unless they want to.

But now we're telling us who can enter what spaces, who's allowed to say what.

If you don't, you're part of the problem.

First off, I don't do virtue signaling.

It doesn't help.

They're like, that's not a good way to do anything, so.

And then just the last point on that, actually, it's a really interesting thing about August, because, like, w- he associates sustainability, environmental movement with government bureaucracy and optics, and, you know, what you might call, uh, you know, what's the word we always like to throw around, um, uh, what that J Cal uses? Where we're making fun, like, uh, the, the moral, what's the, the word that they always use making fun of pe- virtue signaling.

Oh.

So like-

Yeah, yeah.

August was basically saying, like, all this environmental sustainability stuff, especially when it comes from the government, is virtue signaling, and he's got his antennas up.

He's skeptical.

But where does that come from? It doesn't come 'cause August didn't say, "I hate the environment." Like, "I wa-