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Imagine There's No Cringe Celebrity Moralism ... It's Easy If You Try

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Imagine There's No Cringe Celebrity Moralism ... It's Easy If You Try

On the absurdity of empathy instruction

Samuel Forster
Dec 16, 2021
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There are essentially two types of moral grandstanding performed by celebrities. Both are irritating and unbecoming, but their manifestations are quite distinct. 

The first type is run-of-the-mill virtue signaling. This is when celebrities do something ostentatious like posting a picture of a superfruit açaí bowl or promoting a hashtag for some amorphous…

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Samuel Forster
Freelance writer based in New York. Work has appeared in Quillette, Arc Digital, and elsewhere. Follow on Twitter @ForsterSam.
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