Not much need to do that now though, is there? Much easier to open a facebook account and start signalling.Originally Posted by Burney
Dunno.It's my view. I've always found flag fetishism weird. It seems to me that the only reason to fly a flag in this country is to advertise something about yourself and your views.
Well on Twitter, certainly, you often see people with Union Jack/St George's cross symbols by their name. Virtue signalling, perhaps, but maybe the good kind?
Tricky one all the same innit.
A chap may stick a few of your Georges Cross flags out the window during a World Cup finals and he will be lambasted for this.
We’re mad for football/sport related flags over here. Not me I should add but neighbours may have them out for weeks on end, perhaps too lazy to just bring them in after the first match.
No flag poles mind, just lashed out the front window.
Well, 'good' is obviously a value judgement and patriotism can certainly have both a good and a bad kind IMO. Like many old things with new names, virtue-signalling is as old as the hills, and done by all sides.
Perhaps, but I don't think it's controversial to say that virtue-signalling is intrinsic to the modus operandi of a certain type of lefty, whereas it is by no means as important to either the identity or the motivations of your average rightist.
So right wing signalling is the good kind?
Well I think right wing virtue signalling is a very different animal, and a far more palatable one, yes.
Interesting.....
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