# Why is the "Virtue Signalling" thread still in MPSIMS?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-virtue-signalling-thread-still-in-mpsims/943871 "2021-06-08T20:58:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-the-virtue-signalling-thread-still-in-mpsims/943871/5 "2021-06-09T00:57:48Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> I notice you cut off the part of my post that criticized the op’s reaction to advice.

I didn’t intend any misrepresentation, but I didn’t think that part of your moderation was relevant to my point.

And, incidentally, I think that part of your moderation might have been based on a misunderstanding of what OP wrote here:

> [@Virtue signaling? Cowardice? Or other (race relations topic)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtue-signaling-cowardice-or-other-race-relations-topic/943821/3):
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> So I should chalk you off as “Virtue Signaling”? 😀 😀 😀

I think you misunderstood this to be OP accusing @Grrr of virtue signalling? But that’s not what this comment means. OP had originally asked how to categorize his _own_ behavior, listing virtue signalling as one possibility. OP was just saying that he understood @Grrr’s stated opinion to mean that @Grrr thought _OP himself_ was virtue signaling. To paraphrase -

> So if there were a poll on my behavior, I should put your verdict down as “virtue signalling”.

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