lacigreen's video: The Dark Side of Virtue Signaling

just a thought or 10 🌝 ▸ hit me up http://www.twitch.tv/laci_green http://www.twitter.com/gogreen18 http://www.facebook.com/officiallacigreen http://www.instagram.com/lacigreen http://www.lacigreen.tv check out Brandon Warmke's work: http://brandonwarmke.com/ ▸ summary In this video we discuss the social media phenomenon dubbed "virtue signaling". In the first part of the video we cover what virtue signaling (or moral posturing/grandstanding) is and whether it's more common on the left. In the second part we go through the 5 common forms of virtue signaling, why we do it, and its social cost. At the end of the video we discuss ways to create healthier and more productive conversations about moral issues. ▸ chapters 00:00 Welcome back! 01:00 A Lefty Thing? 01:46 : The Pile On 03:08 : Ramping Up 04:18 : Dismissiveness 05:10 : Overstating Harm 06:21 : Excessive Outrage 06:54 Solutions ▸ sources used in this video Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk by Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke https://www.amazon.com/Grandstanding-Use-Abuse-Moral-Talk/dp/0190900156 (1) Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0223749 (2) The False Enforcement of Unpopular Norms https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/599250 (3) Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674707580 (4) Going to Extremes: How Like Minds Unite and Divide https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/655101?journalCode=ssr (5) A cleansing fire: Moral outrage alleviates guilt and buffers threats to one’s moral identity https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11031-017-9601-2