What's on your mug?

What celebrities, politicians and companies do when they are trying to be politically woke.

Nobody: J. K. Rowling: Btw, Dumbledore was in a passionate gay relationship. Everyone: Uh, ok... Where is that in the books and movies? J. K. Rowling: Nowhere, i just made it so. Everyone: Why are you saying this only now? Back in 2007 (when the last Harry Potter book came out) only one state had gay marriage legalized. Don't you think the LGBTQ community would have liked your support more back then? J. K. Rowling: ... Everyone: ... J. K. Rowling: Well... but now he is SUPER gay. Everyone, to each other: man, virtue signalling like this is just so pretentious. J. K. Rowling: Also, have you heard about Hermione? Everyone: please stop.

By german_latino

A scheming, disingenuous act of kindness and selflessness to show ones solidarity with a cause, such as volunteering for CAMHS, all to boost ones image and reputation, rather than to help the cause. It is commonly weaponised by politicians and used in debates to appease the majority. Synonyms: I have no life, I'm a cuck, please give me attention, stop mansplaining Antonyms: I'm smart, I'm sexy, I'm not a 28 year old living in his mother's basement, I've got a nice schlong

Examples of virtue signalling: - Jeremy Corbyn introducing his pronouns during a speech on Pink News - Simon Cowell allowing a mediocre comedian to progress to the finals of Britain's Got Talent because he was disabled - 18 year old college students stating their obvious gender pronouns in their Instagram/Twitter bios - Wokeness - wokeness is virtue signalling, and virtue signalling is wokeness - Michelle Williams' irrelevant and unnecessary speech at the Golden Globe Awards - Refuting the scientific reality of biological sex

By bigboobies007

Advocating a political or philosophical position, and/or taking up a public cause, from a position of vanity, for the primary purpose of demonstrating your conformity with fashionable pop culture values.

Angela's sudden advocacy for the local pet shelter was mostly an exercise in public relations and virtue signalling. She had never much cared for dogs and cats before, but she instinctively understood teary-eyed public support for defenseless animals generally said something good about her as a person.

By Okie G.L.

One of the many nauseating buzzwords used by conservatives as an alternative to constructing a coherent argument. Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean anything - and actually doubles as a good way to spot cretins in the wild.

“This guy just said virtue signalling unironically, let’s get away from this asshat”

By Mad Bank

A phenomena where someone campaigns for or otherwise shows their support for an often popular position without actually doing anything meaningful to further the cause that they claim to champion. This is one of the main signs of late democracy and otherwise shows the prevalence of cult figures in a society: political or otherwise. Also takes form with "thoughts and prayers", and other meaningless statements.

-Damn, all of these people are virtue signalling about the Freedom Convoy. -The easiest way to become respected on twitter is to virtue signal in support of trans rights.

By TheRomanShitlord