Evil signalling

submitted by trident765 from self.nonmorons

I have noticed that a lot of evil intelligent people have Twitter accounts where they constantly tweet about how deeply they supposedly care about the rights of black people or gay people. I think the reason they do this is two-fold. The first and more obvious reason is that they are virtue-signalling to the moronic masses. When they make these tweets it makes them look like good, caring people to the masses.

The second reason is that they are evil signalling. When they post so often about causes that they obviously have no reason to care so much about, it becomes clear to the intelligent person that they are not being genuine and that they are really just evil psychopaths. Through this evil signalling, the evil intelligent people are able to identify each other so that they can cooperate to do evil.

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[–]wary_observer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Why Virtue-Signallers Are psychopaths and "Ethics" is Just Emotional Manipulation

[–]wary_observer 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

virtue-signalling to the moronic masses

Through this evil signalling, the evil intelligent people are able to identify each other so that they can cooperate to do evil.

I think these represent the extremes of the target audience, or the two ends of the intelligence bell curve at which the two types of signalling respectively are aimed.

What about the midwits? I think they suffer from a combination of self-imposed stupidity/blindness (through years of indoctrination as well as simple cowardice) and a kind of received psychopathy which they absorb from their superiors in the social hierarchy. How consciously they do this would vary but it seems to derive from some combination of Stockholm syndrome (unconscious loyalty to the evil regime) that induces reflexive parroting of certain memes, and calculated self-interest. And of course social media works as an echo-chamber that such maniacs are drawn to in the first place and gives them a platform to spew their venom.

Anyway, this is nothing new. There was a similar phenomenon in communist countries, where psychopaths and sellouts were fond of using vacuous social-justice sloganeering and hypocritical virtue-posturing for career-advancement purposes.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Insightful. Saved, along with OP.

Not limited to communists. Capitalist and consumerist cultures have MUCH to criticize as well, it's just different, but many of their means are the same. Ultimately their goals are singular where they all merge: totalitarianism.

[–]wary_observer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I agree it's an important phenomenon to be aware of.

Certainly it's not limited to communists, they just reflected their place and time, as do the current memes/slogans. Red banners then, black banners now.

Even though the communist project apparently 'failed', its proponents have had some thirty years to regroup, readjust and refine their methods.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Failed = morphed.

As all politics do.

[–]wary_observer 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It failed in that specific form, but that doesn't matter. The overall program just transitioned into new modalities. Nearly 30 years ago, Mr. Bezmenov warned Americans that this was already well underway and that they were ripe for the picking.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Truth.