Also your love and respect, deepest sympathies are written as if it’s conditional which means you really don’t care at all.
General Discussion: Black Lives Matter
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posted 8 Jun 2020 11:03, edited 8 Jun 2020 11:03
What are your friends doing that counts as virtue-signalling and browbeating?
Most my people on my feeds have been pretty informative, sharing books on race/identity (e.g. White Fragility, So You Want To Talk About Race), and positive actions that you can take (e.g. donate to organisations, petitions).
I hadn't heard of either of those books, and they seem interesting. Are the above things considered to be virtue-signalling?
EDIT: No idea if Mr X is trolling, so I'm just ignoring his posts
8 Jun 2020 11:17
What changes are you going to make in your day to day life that will help? (other than realising your white privilege and starting a thread)?
Genuinely don’t know what people are meant to do that will provide short term answers….Anything useful will require years before it’s even evident that a change might have happened.
posted 8 Jun 2020 11:45, edited 8 Jun 2020 11:45
What are your friends doing that counts as virtue-signalling and browbeating?
I agree with most of superprecise's post
virtue-signalling is related to intent i guess and is pretty difficult to 100% ascertain unless you can read someone's mind
there's a difference between ordering a book, reading it cover-to-cover and genuinely educating yourself (or making a donation to a worthwhile charity)
vs
thoughtlessly plastering shit all over your instagram story that you (in all likelihood) haven't read in order to make yourself look informed, or vacuously donating a measly amount to a cause and then posting screenshots of it all over social media to make you feel good about yourself
i don't buy into this 'silence is complicit' stuff either, just because someone hasn't spammed the shit out of social media and explicitly stated they aren't racist doesn't mean that they aren't well intentioned
One thing I'm not going to do however is virtue signal and browbeat my white liberal friends on social media, or regurgitate memes and slogans.
What are your friends doing that counts as virtue-signalling and browbeating?
Most my people on my feeds have been pretty informative, sharing books on race/identity (e.g. White Fragility, So You Want To Talk About Race), and positive actions that you can take (e.g. donate to organisations, petitions).
I hadn't heard of either of those books, and they seem interesting. Are the above things considered to be virtue-signalling?
EDIT: No idea if Mr X is trolling, so I'm just ignoring his posts
Not browbeating your liberal white friends? Did you actually write that….?
Since this is a massively white privileged forum the least I could do is bring it to the whole community's attention. At least you've commented. The silence of others speaks volumes.
Since this is a massively white privileged forum the least I could do is bring it to the whole community's attention. At least you've commented. The silence of others speaks volumes.
What changes are you going to make in your day to day life that will help? (other than realising your white privilege and starting a thread)?
Genuinely don’t know what people are meant to do that will provide short term answers….Anything useful will require years before it’s even evident that a change might have happened.
One thing I'm not going to do however is virtue signal and browbeat my white liberal friends on social media, or regurgitate memes and slogans.
What are your friends doing that counts as virtue-signalling and browbeating?
I agree with most of superprecise's post
virtue-signalling is related to intent i guess and is pretty difficult to 100% ascertain unless you can read someone's mind
there's a difference between ordering a book, reading it cover-to-cover and genuinely educating yourself (or making a donation to a worthwhile charity)
vs
thoughtlessly plastering shit all over your instagram story that you (in all likelihood) haven't read in order to make yourself look informed, or vacuously donating a measly amount to a cause and then posting screenshots of it all over social media to make you feel good about yourself
i don't buy into this 'silence is complicit' stuff either, just because someone hasn't spammed the shit out of social media and explicitly stated they aren't racist doesn't mean that they aren't well intentioned
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