More racist bigotry from the Trump administration

[redgunamo]

It's funny how easy our virtue can slip, though, isn't it. For example, a couple of weeks ago, we cancelled a garden party because the weather forecast was looking terrible. When it came to the day, my partner was praying for it to rain (in order to justify our decision to cancel) even though her friend was also having a party on the same day and had decided to go ahead.

This to me gets to the heart of the bull**** of virtue rather neatly.

Oh, sure. It's only a facade anyway, and so, if everyone's doing it that way then where's the harm.

[Sir C]

It's funny how easy our virtue can slip, though, isn't it. For example, a couple of weeks ago, we cancelled a garden party because the weather forecast was looking terrible. When it came to the day, my partner was praying for it to rain (in order to justify our decision to cancel) even though her friend was also having a party on the same day and had decided to go ahead.

This to me gets to the heart of the bull**** of virtue rather neatly.

A garden party? Are you married to the queen?

[Monty92]

A garden party? Are you married to the queen?

Like a barbecue thingy. In the garden.

Just us and a few neighbours. (Mesut not invited, the contract-running-down ****).

[redgunamo]

A garden party? Are you married to the queen?

Only thing to do when the weather's this fair and agreeable, innit.

[Ash]

The thing about virtue signalling is that it must surely have now reached a point that there is no social reward for engaging in it. After all, if everyone's doing it, all the time, then where is the virtue? it's just what you do, right? There's nothing to be gained, as such.

Which tell me that there's something else going on...

It's only a new way to describe something that has always been there, though. What we are calling virtue here is a kind of status, and status-signalling is as old as the hills, doncha know? The way it manifests is subject to local conditions.

Remember the parable of the ostentatious rich fella who was extravagantly making a large donation to the collection-bowl, versus the little old lady humbly and discretely adding her penny?

Oh no, you wouldn't. Sorry.

[redgunamo]

Like a barbecue thingy. In the garden.

Just us and a few neighbours. (Mesut not invited, the contract-running-down ****).

A mistake, in my view. You could have leant on him a little, twisted his arm a bit.

[redgunamo]

It's only a new way to describe something that has always been there, though. What we are calling virtue here is a kind of status, and status-signalling is as old as the hills, doncha know? The way it manifests is subject to local conditions.

Remember the parable of the ostentatious rich fella who was extravagantly making a large donation to the collection-bowl, versus the little old lady humbly and discretely adding her penny?

Oh no, you wouldn't. Sorry.

No-one would've remembered him had he been poor. That one?

[Ash]

Like a barbecue thingy. In the garden.

Just us and a few neighbours. (Mesut not invited, the contract-running-down ****).

You socialise with your neighbours? Blimey.

Fair play to you, of course. Are they hanging on your bell all the time asking to borrow a quarter-pint of beer in a pint glass?

[Burney]

It's only a new way to describe something that has always been there, though. What we are calling virtue here is a kind of status, and status-signalling is as old as the hills, doncha know? The way it manifests is subject to local conditions.

Remember the parable of the ostentatious rich fella who was extravagantly making a large donation to the collection-bowl, versus the little old lady humbly and discretely adding her penny?

Oh no, you wouldn't. Sorry.

The lesson of the widow's mite, a.

[Burney]

You socialise with your neighbours? Blimey.

Fair play to you, of course. Are they hanging on your bell all the time asking to borrow a quarter-pint of beer in a pint glass?

His mum's hanging on my bell all the time.