2021年7月8日
A Hongkonger
EJ Insight
Not what we need, but what we deserve
Virtue signalling keyboard warriors – these are folks that we probably don't need (unless we, like Big Tech subscribers and users, admire and fawn over those who spend their lives hunting for followers and fishing for likes); yet they're certainly folks that we deserve.
Consider the following proposition – the more vocally morally self-righteous, unctuous, and pious an individual is on social media, the more there is that they have to hide/conceal behind their façade. I know plenty of folks who take after this career – they'd write elongated Facebook posts extolling the virtues of a colonial regime, then spend the afterthought between a beer and their daily commute in some faraway city, grand-standing about the fate of a city they neither have served nor to which they belong. ...
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