{"id":5969,"date":"2018-06-05T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2018-06-05T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T18:20:11","slug":"it-may-be-virtue-signalling-but-at-least-its-not-actually-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/06\/05\/it-may-be-virtue-signalling-but-at-least-its-not-actually-true\/","title":{"rendered":"It may be virtue signalling, but at least its not actually true"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This propaganda poster came across my news feed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5970\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/34471820_1994941307204541_206655314974474240_n.jpg?w=584\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"656\" \/><br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/keanu-reeves-tragic-story\/\">Snopes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He occasionally rides a subway but is more often driving one of his sports cars or classic motorcycles.<\/li>\n<li>He generously support several charities; however, his net worth is estimated at $350 million.<\/li>\n<li>He lives in a $4 million home (shack, not a mansion, in Hollywood Hills, which is in California, not New York City).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Typical of propaganda, this poster extracts &#8220;bits&#8221; and extrapolates those to make broad or generalized claims that are not true.<br \/>\nThe purpose of the poster seems to be to deliver a message that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reeves is humble<\/li>\n<li>He donates all his money to charity and lives a life of poverty (or something)<\/li>\n<li>We should all be like this<\/li>\n<li>Those who share or like this poster are <em>virtue signaling<\/em> their commitment to this ideal (or rather, they like it when other people choose this hypothetical life style)<\/li>\n<li>The poster makes several <em>assertions<\/em>, most of which are not true (<em>lies<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>The poster uses <em>celebrity endorsement.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The poster uses <em>cherry picking<\/em> of the available information.<\/li>\n<li>The poster may be suggesting that we should &#8220;<em>get on the bandwagon<\/em>&#8221; too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why people are compelled to share items like this on social media is bewildering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This propaganda poster came across my news feed. According to Snopes, He occasionally rides a subway but is more often driving one of his sports cars or classic motorcycles. He generously support several charities; however, his net worth is estimated at $350 million. He lives in a $4 million home (shack, not a mansion, in Hollywood Hills, which is in California, not New York City). Typical of propaganda, this poster extracts &#8220;bits&#8221; and extrapolates those to make broad or generalized&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/06\/05\/it-may-be-virtue-signalling-but-at-least-its-not-actually-true\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,9,26,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assertion","category-celebrity-endorsement","category-cherry-picking","category-lies","category-virtue-signaling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}