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adidas campaigns "Create Positivity", immediately backfires
McZealot:
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on July 26, 2017, 01:12:36 AM ---Virtue signalling has been around since moral busybodies. The evangelist moral busybodies did it when it came to gay marriage and other things they found morally objectionable. Kim Davis is a fine example of this. "LOOK AT HOW VIRTUOUS I AM BY REFUSING THIS GAY COUPLE'S RIGHT TO MARRY. LOOK AT ME MY FELLOW DEVOUT CHRISTIANS". Then other virtue signallers rally under her and go "YES WE SEE YOU WE ARE ALSO VIRTUOUS!!!!" It is no different than this video and others like it where people basically circlejerk under their misguided notions of moral superiority.
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This is completely true. I never said "There's no such thing as virtue signalling," I was trying to say that the worst has been so overused (especially when it's not relevant) by (generally conservative) groups in recent times so it loses its meaning and becomes a buzzword, like 'cuck' 'beta' 'kiddo', ect.
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on July 26, 2017, 01:12:36 AM ---It's especially annoying in cases like this because we don't need to be reminded refugees are human beings. Literally no one is arguing that they're not human beings. People who make videos like this seem to think showing us some sympathetic stories from refugees and illegals is gonna change people's minds. As if we don't already know there's people out there like that. It's basically just an attempt to guilt trip people into falling in line. It's a bunch of bullstuff.
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This is completely untrue. There's loads of people at my school who think that refugees are largely evil Shariah-law loving creatures that want to force their way into America to bring the Caliphate into Oklahoma. They de-humanize and villianize these people to the point where they feel zero sympathy. Pointing out similarities between refugees and audience members will help them to sympathize with their position and put themselves in the refugee's shoes. I've seen this on a first-hand basis after my AP Human Geography class had to write our final essay over Syrian refugees. We got to watch a couple of documentaries (mostly non-biased) and the whole class felt symapthy for them by the end of it, when they may have only felt disgust earlier. Education is a death-blow to prejudice.
--- Quote from: Deus Ex on July 26, 2017, 01:12:36 AM ---And anyway, ADIDAS owns sweatshops in these thirdworld countries. They're the last loving company that gets to virtue signal. In fact, that's another reason why virtue signalling is such bullstuff. It's loving hypocritical. These people who virtue signal do it to cover their own asses. They know damn well they have no right to try to police the morals of other people when they're doing some forgeted up stuff, but because the left is currently easily swayed through virtue signalling, getting brownie points for being diverse, inclusive, or whatever is easy as forget. It is BUUUUUUUUUUUULLstuff
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Yea, this is a good reason not to buy from stuffty companies like Adidas. I haven't been into a Walmart in more than ten years (is that virtue signalling?) because they're an abhorrent company and I'd rather just go somewhere else and pay a few more dollars. I just didn't see anything wrong with the vido and thought it was ridiculous that people are jumping up in arms about it.
Shift Kitty:
'immediately backfires'
yes a bunch of internet teenagers that don't even play sports are angry that people are happy playing sports
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: McZealot on July 25, 2017, 11:47:19 PM ---I feel like 'virtue signalling' is a new excuse for crybabies to complain about content with a different opinion than them. Funny cause this is the party that hates Tumblr for doing the same thing
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It was, at one point, a legitimate description of how internet SJWs use 'call-outs' as a way to win brownie points with their friends. It's now been appropriated by internet conservatives who use it as a synonym for expressing any humanist opinion that doesn't come off like callous nihilism.
Rally:
--- Quote from: Shift Kitty on July 26, 2017, 04:29:52 AM ---'immediately backfires'
yes a bunch of internet teenagers that don't even play sports are angry that people are happy playing sports
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They probably don't even lift
Trymos:
blockland forums is a slightly more readable version of the youtube comments section. like a seemingly 1:1 replica.