Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?

By artappraiser on Mon, 12/27/2021 - 6:43pm |

Is Virtue Signaling Vicious? https://t.co/bwvZZWlQtO via @libertarianinst
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Omar's doing a thread on topic AND MORE, is he ever -

What theories in social science might explain the rise of “a-hole politics”? Today, it’s top of mind as someone who’s followed me for a while was, unprompted, a jerk. A taste for social dominance might explain some behavior but I’m curious how others make sense of the dynamic?
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@KeithNHumphreys highlights “lack of interpersonal consequences” on social media along with group dynamics that reward raging against perceived out-groups. https://t.co/ViNplOIMH2
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@alexdersh flags research that finds “extremists use meaner language.” https://t.co/dyBAMeHmXo
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@MikeTolhurst points me to his paper on “Moral grandstanding in public discourse: Status-seeking motives as a potential explanatory mechanism in predicting conflict,” with co-authors @JoshuaGrubbsPhD @BrandonWarmke @JustinTosi https://t.co/d4SEcLmdFF
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@GaribaldoValdez offers a couple good recommendations and links the trend to Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s “notion of racialized emotions.” https://t.co/ujCQ9ClmQe
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@ProfCheit and others highlighted the vital work of my friend and former classmate @EBHarrington. https://t.co/5EEXDADVOh
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@BrendanNyhan links to his study that finds “Incivility is overrepresented in online comments,” with co-authors Jin Woo Kim, @andyguess and @JasonReifler. https://t.co/yQzS0CzZBL
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@mkguliford recommends @Davin_Phoenix’s highly regarded *The Anger Gap*. https://t.co/gizVLEvcHD
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

For more on @Davin_Phoenix’s work, see this thread that highlights The Anger Gap’s win of the 2020 Ralph J. Bunche Award for its research that “shows how anger mobilizes Black and white Americans differentially to exacerbate political inequality.” https://t.co/O6L8qyEwzk
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@AlbertsonB2 recommends @ErinCassese’s work on dehumanization that studies how “voters dehumanize opposition candidates and party members in both subtle and blatant ways.” https://t.co/1KssUJTCje
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@christiangrose suggests @JuYeonPark4’s theory of grandstanding in Congress. https://t.co/OC4rGY6txW
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@anatosaurus points to the financial incentives for social media firms who profit from “hatred and outrage.” https://t.co/fbHcn5UqcN
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 27, 2021

.@caleb_crain flags Elizabeth Kolbert’s review of books on hyperpartisanship in The New Yorker. https://t.co/MwjeVbIX5h
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 28, 2021

.@BryceABagley recommends Yuval Harari’s work that finds “Modern propaganda relies on producing new myths of subcultural identity defined by disintegration, ‘othering,’ and hatred towards others in the same society.” https://t.co/48Wjv5wyhb
— Omar Wasow (@owasow) December 28, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/27/2021 - 7:16pm

Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?

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