RESEARCH: Narcissists, Psychopaths, and Manipulators Are More Likely To Engage in 'Virtuous Victim Signaling,' Says Study

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[–]Complicated-Spirit 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It’s also noticeable - at least to me - that this type of “activism” is rife with doing nothing but seeking praise and validation from others for your own, rather mediocre, accomplishments.

The vast majority of virtue signalers online do exactly nothing but sit in front on a computer all day and call other people out for not doing enough for their own chosen cause. That’s why they’re constantly doxxing others after accusing them of transphobia, racism, Islamophobia, pedophilia, etc. on the absolute flimsiest of evidence, if it could be considered “evidence” at all. Often, that evidence is simply, “If you weren’t (oppressive person), you’d be doing more.” When pressed for precisely what they’re doing besides non-stop complaining about how others aren’t doing enough, they fly into a rage, and say that they’ve “fought XYZ all their life” and they’re “non-binary”, and that puts them on the worst possible level on the Ladder of Oppression, and that they’ve done more to help the state of the world by sharing articles on social media every day about their pet project than you ever will, you horrible piece of garbage.

The fact is, they think they really are a hero for everything they’ve “done” and “gone through”, even if everything they’ve “done” is just complain about other people and click “share to Facebook” after reading no further than an article’s headline - that alone makes them society’s savior. And they really do think they’ve “been through” so much, because they link every negative experience they have in their life to some form of discrimination-based oppression, that is directed at them personally. Narcissists cannot take responsibility for the negative consequences of their own actions, so that responsibility must be foisted onto others. If they get evicted from their apartment, it must be because they are X and landlord must hate X people, not because they treated the place like a dumpster and didn’t pay rent. If they are refused service at a restaurant, it must be because they are Y and restaurant’s owners and employees hate Y people, not because they showed up after closing and rudely demanded to be served anyway. Nothing can ever be their fault.

[–]womenopausal[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a great observation. It chimes with the fact they'll always TERFs aren't real feminists. Even though most of the most well-known 'TERFS' have decades and decades of work for women's rights (of course, they will discount any work on prostitution or porn as SWERF). I think the most famous example of this was when Ash Sarkar, darling of the far left, said that Julie Bindel was a hypocrite because she had never tweeted anything about women in prison. In fact, Julie Bindel formed the organisation Justice 4 Women before Sarkar was born which campaigns to get women who have been imprisoned for reprising against domestic abuse freed. Setting up an organisation, getting women released from prison, doing that kind of activist work is real, hard work. Tweeting about it is performative.

Like so much of what they say, it's almost entirely projection. They do nothing but tweet and call it activism. If they wanted shelters, they could do what feminist did in the 1980s. Get the money together, find a location, network, do the activism. But no, it's 'activism' for them to bitch and moan that they want in to ours. And what's worse, they've captured the zeitgeist to the extent we're being forced to let them take them.