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[–] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Empathy must be performative because if we aren't all deeply hateful people underneath, that would mean they'd have to face their own insecurity

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This is actually why conservatives started using the term "virtue signal" to begin with. Conservatives don't possess empathy, therefore they view any display of empathy as a purely performative action where the goal is self-serving deception and manipulation.

    They were telling on themselves the entire time.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Virtue Signalling it actually a sociological term used by academics.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    That doesn't change why they adopted it.

    That's why they use it for any display of empathy from a non-conservative. Signalling virtue is just something you do to be part on the in-group, like wearing a cross or saying "I'll pray for you". You don't actually possess virtue or care about other people, because that would be socialism.

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