Are poppies virtue signalling?

Are poppies virtue signalling?

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I had to look up the definition of virtue signalling to make sure I wasn't tripping.

Yes. They are.

No. Virtue signaling is when you take a public stance on something for the sole purpose of letting other people know that you hold a particular set of political views.

Wearing a poppy is a sign of patriotism and a show of respect to those who keep us safe. It's no different than standing for the national anthem or flying your nation's flag.

maybe in leafland.
But if you were a real patriot, you'd do more than wear a fucking leaf

its honoring another's virtue
if anything its honor signalling

Wearing a poppy doesn't disqualify you from other forms of patriotism.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

It can be, or it may not. By buying one, you are helping veterans. By wearing it, you force people to see it, and maybe contribute to someone else's decision of buy one. You shouldn't care that a bunch of cynical fucks think you are virtue signaling. You at the very least helped veterans a little bit.

Fuck your poppies.

kicks me in the feels every time

Is donating to charity virtue signalling?

you weren't tripping
but im dubbing
check em

This. I wear one to honour the fallen and to piss Chinese people off.

>international fratricide keeps us safe

>if *everyone* virtue signals, it stops being a virtue signal

Only if you brag about it.

All I see if a symbol of a mass white blood sacrifice for the Jews.

And so, this leads to the question, is wearing a paper poppy indicative of bragging?

In Northen Ireland it regretably is but only because Nationalists made it that way.

Sad really my Facebooks been a wall of 'I wear my poppy no matter who I offend' all day. Some tabloid sparked it.

More like poopies

Is "virtue signalling" the new meme word?

>respect to those who keep us safe.

Holy shit. I sincerely hope you don't describe yourself as """""""redpilled"""""" you child.

>That feel when the Canadian major that wrote that poem didn't survive the war

yes.

It's virtue signalling

I sincerely hope you grow out of your adolescent anti-war stage soon.

VURCHOO?

to be fair, loyalists wank themselves dry over the battle of the Somme, then get nervous when you ask them about ww2

Well thats the end of it then, thread closed.

>letting other people know that you hold a particular set of political views.
>outward sign of patriotism and show of respect
leaf

At best you can say it might be community building by fostering a sense of brotherhood. But it is still virtue signalling.

Here in Montreal we celebrate it every year with protests of the evil military-industrial complex

mcgilldaily.com/2015/10/demilitarize-remembrance/

You are clearly very thick.

Virtue signalling is an understanding of human behavior.

It is a display of virtue for others to see. It used to be that women would use their modest and implied virginity as virtue signalling.

Now women use slutting around with minorities as virtue signalling. Thank cuck baby boomers for that.

You're too late to surrender Jean-Michel. Maybe next war.

Wow, compelling argument.
>tfw britcucks are becomign worse than leafs

Wearing poppies on Anzac day is celebrating a battle against the turkroaches

>he thinks the people bombing the fuck out of countries that would've been better left alone, creating refugees by the thousands and terrorist groups is keeping us all safe

If you want to point thr blame at someone for all the refugee and terrorist problems currently you only have to look at our governments and military. But of course you're """""redpilled"""""""" so you know better don't you eh. Fuck sake.

"It's just a phase" is just as dumb an argument, abhorrent poster

Thanks for correcting the record Achmed