When I view right-wing outrage, it’s so often blatantly wrong (and doesn’t pass a simple factcheck) that I used to just believe that they were incompetent. (And some of the arguments they make do show they can’t logic).
Then I realized that they doing what biblical scholar Dan McClellan calls costly virtue signalling. The social media post isn’t for outsiders, but insiders to signal to each other that they are of the body and belong to the same cult.
The affordability crisis is a Democrat hoax is the same signal as They’re eating the dogs which is the same as blood libel, and it doesn’t matter whether or not any of them are true. In fact, the subject of these statements are to point out targets for those MAGA members who are looking to express their loyalty with violence.
When I view right-wing outrage, it’s so often blatantly wrong (and doesn’t pass a simple factcheck) that I used to just believe that they were incompetent. (And some of the arguments they make do show they can’t logic).
Then I realized that they doing what biblical scholar Dan McClellan calls costly virtue signalling. The social media post isn’t for outsiders, but insiders to signal to each other that they are of the body and belong to the same cult.
The affordability crisis is a Democrat hoax is the same signal as They’re eating the dogs which is the same as blood libel, and it doesn’t matter whether or not any of them are true. In fact, the subject of these statements are to point out targets for those MAGA members who are looking to express their loyalty with violence.