Liam Neeson: Rape, Revenge, and Race Relations

[bennyboy]

I consider myself left-of-center.  I favor welfare, healthcare, environmental care and so on, and AOC is currently my favorite politician.  I mean-- how many vegetarian alt-righters even exist?  I've also suggested many plans for the improvement of quality of life for black people, involving things like early release for harsh sentences (or for overturned laws like pot possession in some states), blind sentencing, and so on.  I'm no expert on the alt-right, but I don't think any of these positions are typical of that school, are they?

This, here, is actual virtue signalling.  If you're going to whine about virtue signalling endlessly, know it when you see, and know it when you say it.  Good for you, you've established your liberal bonafides.  So what?  You can be all of the above and still agree with or unwittingly repeat the alt-reichs rhetoric.  Frankly, for most of political history libs were pretty godamned racist.  It's unfashionable to be so today but that long relationship goes to show that the three states of being aren't fundamentally incompatible.  

Arguing that you're not alt-right by describing the ways in which you're not alt-right isn't virtue signalling. Standing up in a Starbucks and saying "How dare you braid your hair in the traditional native style! That's cultural appropriate, bruh!" is virtue signalling.

You can keep saying that free speech is an alt-right device, and I'll keep explaining why that's a terrible position. Or maybe I can find a book quote and just say "ibid." every time I have to repeat myself, because Matt Damon sounded cool when he said it in Good Will Hunting.