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by blueflow 1054 days ago
Having the right opinion as a form of social status.
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Wealthy urban men and women do that all the time.

While they're working their employees to the bone, refusing raises, and pocketing all the profits to purchase more real estate and nicer cars, or to bribe people at the private school they send their kids to, they whitewash their actions by pretending they care about feminism, LGBTQ+ people, white privilege, and/or the environment.

The Rural crowd has a different form of virtue signaling but the richest among them are also hypocrites in their own way. Usually via saying they're Christian, going to church, and then doing nothing Christian in their day to day life.

They do care about those -isms, as those divide the worker folk and keep those from uniting and demanding more.
I'm surprised it's still politically correct to use words "right" and "left".