The Auron MacIntyre Show - The Right Was WRONG About Virtue-Signaling | 3/7/24 - Listen on Fountain
People will always virtue-signal; it is a key aspect of human nature that will never go away. The question is never “will we virtue-signal?” but “whose virtues will be elevated?”Follow on:Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-auron-macintyre-sho...
More or less. I'm not nearly the smarty wordmaking guy Auron is so I'm probably butchering it but my understanding is there is a feedback loop where people want to show they are both a part of the group but also display their personal elevated status. They do this by displaying high status behaviors that they know are socially conformist and in-line with other, known, high-status individuals.
An example he gives is an average-to-upper middle class White woman* mentioning* on social media about her "trans kids". She does this not because she really cares about trannies but because that is what all of the celebrities she sees on TV and reads about all the time are talking about. Of course she will pretend sincerity to her grave because in her social environment the loss of "authenticity" is reputational death.