Originally Posted by
genejockey
"Virtue signalling" is a term invented by people who wanted to be jerks, and want to think everyone else is just as bad as they are but pretends not to be.
Yes. Like the earlier "politically correct." New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin remarked back in the '80's that the then-new term was used by people who spouted the same ignorant opinions they'd had all their lives but now wanted credit for bravery.