A phenomenon I’ve only recently noticed on the Right, a kind of anti-virtue signalling where the individual (usually a commenter on blogs or Youtube videos) aggressively signals an utter lack of compassion, fairness, etc., on the grounds that such moral sentiments are Leftist tools, and that in any case for all their blather the Left don’t actually have any compassion or fairness, so why should the Right?

It’s a prevailing note struck in Vox Day’s comment section, e.g. regarding the death of George Floyd. As far as I can tell, Floyd may have tried to forge a check, the police were called, and one of them for some reason subdued him by kneeling on his neck until he died. Floyd was a huge man and looks drunk or high from the available footage, so I can understand the police using a higher degree of force, but it’s difficult to justify kneeling on an inert man’s neck for several minutes.

Now the local black communities are rioting and looting to express their displeasure; and of course because destroying & stealing stuff is fun.

The comments on Vox Day’s post are instructive. A small number say the police basically murdered Floyd and people are right to be pissed off. These commenters are then attacked by Vox Day and other regulars, accused of being race traitors, “virtue signallers”, and so on. I found it baffling and wondered if I’d missed something, since as far as I could tell the first lot were simply saying that the police shouldn’t kneel on a non-violent suspect’s neck until he dies, which seems fairly reasonable. Then I realised, Oh! They mean that because Floyd was black, no one should criticise the police. Oh. 

I’m regularly accused of being a Nazi, a racist etc., but I guess I’m not racist enough for this ride.

I wasn’t disturbed so much by the racist sentiment (that only a virtue-signalling race traitor would object to police more or less randomly murdering blacks) as by the triumphal, snarling tone of the anti-virtue-signallers; it reminded me of the irritating peacockery of the Leftist virtue-signallers; both operate within a clearly-defined arena, within which they are sure their opinions will be not merely accepted but respected, and for which they will be accorded honour and acclaim. For all their venom and bravado, the anti-virtue-signallers are servile dogs snarling for their master’s approval.