The Lindsay Dentlinger affair has less to do with Lindsay Dentlinger’s behaviour than it has to do with people using the opportunity to signal their own victimhood and moral virtue. quillette.com/2021/02/27/the…
“Newly published research indicates that people who more frequently signal their victimhood (whether real, exaggerated, or false) are more likely to lie and cheat for material gain and denigrate others as a means to get ahead.”
“Victimhood signaling is associated with numerous morally undesirable personality traits, such as narcissism, Machiavellianism (willingness to manipulate and exploit others for self-benefit), a sense of entitlement, and lower honesty and humility.”
Those who scored higher on this victim-signaling scale were found to be more likely to virtue-signal—to outwardly display signs of virtuous moral character—while simultaneously placing less importance on their own moral identity.
In other words, victim signalers were more interested in looking morally good but less interested in being morally good than those who less frequently signal their victimhood.
Eusebius McKaiser has tweeted or retweeted 17 times on the trot, on the subject. Virtue signalling and a pervasive sense of victimhood much?
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