People complain about virtue-signalling and others complain about such complaints. What people are less alert to is the fact that online >>

— Alastair Roberts (@zugzwanged) July 5, 2017

>> social media, by placing us within a context of intense mutual display and making us all participants & objects in a shared spectacle, >>

— Alastair Roberts (@zugzwanged) July 5, 2017

>> almost inescapably renders discourse a form of virtue signalling, even when we would much prefer that it weren't.

— Alastair Roberts (@zugzwanged) July 5, 2017