Virtue signaling is not always a bad thing. After all, I don’t have a problem with “pro-gun” statements.
With that being said, I feel that I understand more fully what my statements mean.
When I say I am pro-gun I do not mean I am pro-murder.
Nor am I saying that I am pro-crime.
I do not immediately associate “guns” with the evil that can be accomplished with them.
Rather, I associate guns with the GOOD that is comes from being able to defend ones-self.
The “Result” of being Pro-Gun is that good people can defend themselves against bad people.
This IS the “Result” 99 out of 100 times.
The “Result” of the above “pro messaging” is something that I feel not many consider.
9 replies on “Reworked this bit of virtue signaling I have been seeing on tumblr. Thoughts?”
Agree for most part. But real science is following the facts and being sceptical. Not having preconceived notions that don’t plan out and labeling it “science”
I should have clarified. This was the original image.
Pro BLM = Pro race hate.
Pro globalism = Pro slavery
not sure why humanism is in there – sorry but that one just doesn’t make sense. humanism is an attempt to create a structured moral framework without a god. Calling it selfish discredits your position.
I would agree that being ‘anti-religion’ is a negative and abandoning any moral framework is a justification for ones selfish desires, but humanism is, as i say, an attempt to create a moral framework without a god. I suggest taking a more charitable view on that one would make you seem more sympathetic and approachable.
pro sex worker … torn on this one … while I abhor the idea of paying for sex, making it illegal creates the criminal market that facilitates the worst of abuses. I wish I had a good answer here, but no manner what we have tried, throughout history, sex work has existed. Unless someone can convince me otherwise, the ‘least bad’ option is to legalize it, with some controls, so that the workers have access to legal protections.
The stuff on the left is what was being circulated.
I added the stuff on the right.
ok, thanks.
Can you explain how immigrants become slave labor? I’m not sure I’m following your line of thinking here.
Certainly the H1-B visas are used this way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CIXZljyQAo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFYj8Sg3x_c
My instinct is that it needs a bit of work in terms of graphic presentation. But in terms of absolute clarity of thought – really well done!
Maybe this could be expanded on – make sub-bullet points saying WHY or HOW these things are evil or result in evil. But it’s got to be kept as short and to the point as the above. Don’t add so much that it becomes “dense” and hard to follow. One or two lines of extra text each, tops.
Also – everything else I was on board for. But I balked a bit at science = propaganda. That’s kind of a clumsy if-then. I was thinking “Wait… what?”
I mean – I KNOW where you were going and why with that from political context. But a lot of people will not. I was trying to look at it from that perspective. There appears to be a “missing step” in there. Or maybe the whole line needs to be re-worked.
Yes. Think of it as a syllogism with a missing middle. It might be true that one leads to the other but it’s not immediately clear that it does.
All mortal beings die.
All humans are mortal.
All humans die.
vs
All mortal beings die.
All humans die.