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freddybobs | 3 years ago
That shouldn't really need explaining, but since you ask, in many scenarios black people are treated as if they matter less than other people. In the justice system. By the police. Education. Employment opportunities. It's a declaration that black people matter as much as anybody else.
There is more to it than that. I can't claim to be an expert. In principal the idea seems pretty simple though.
> Decoupled from any course of actions being prescribed, for the majority of ....
I'm not sure what any of that means. The zeitgeist you say? The latest thing (TM)? You seem to think "Black Live Matters" is some kind of unknowable thing, but now your using terms that super nebulous and hardly likely to be broadly agreed upon.
> There are a few things wrong with this statement. If a guy goes to a "pussy hat" march with the intention of getting girls, are you confident in calling that "virtuous regardless?" The virtue of a thing is often inextricably linked to the motive, and you're dismissing motive out of hand.
It is arguably less virtuous. But the guy still did a virtuous thing in helping the people on the march at least in the eyes of the people on the march presumably.
> Secondly, you're saying that no better paths are suggested.
Yes. Generally speaking.
> Let's go back to BLM and try to map that onto a suggested course of action.
No lets not.
The article is about electric vehicles. So now is an opportunity for you to suggest a better path. You have not.
Moreover the example you use BLM? I mean you claim to not to really know what it means. If you don't know what it means it's hard to take the rest of it very seriously.
> 1. Virtue is linked to motive in many (most) peoples' analyses.
Therein lies part of the rub with "virtual signaling" concept. To invoke it assumes you know what the motivation is.
> 2. Actions are rarely, if ever, universally regarded as virtuous, or the proper course of action
That is not a requirement of the critique.
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