The Back-Channel Backlash Against Toxic Virtue-Mongers
ORIGINAL: On toxic virtue and the new digital samizdat
Virtue-mongering is what I define as an abrogation of the first principals of virtue, and a regression into a dumbed-down caricature of itself.
Virtue-mongering or “weaponized virtue”. . . is the assertion that merely staking claim to the higher moral ground makes one virtuous, and that one’s own belief system is universal. From that vantage point, all non-conforming viewpoints are by definition illegitimate and immoral.
