# "Virtue Signaling"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtue-signaling/855565>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 12, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtue-signaling/855565 "2020-06-12T21:19:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtue-signaling/855565/81 "2020-07-26T03:42:09Z")

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> [@kswiss](#):
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> Politcal orthodoxy, on the left is political correctness. Political orthodoxy on the right is called…I don’t know if there a catchy name for it.

Bill Maher liked to call it “Patriotic Correctness” though that’s not a term the right uses. People on the right I find like to reference God and the Troops to virtue signal - but I would note that most people on the left don’t call it virtue signaling either (it’s a dismissive term used against left leaning people more often that not).

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