People who defend virtue signaling generally only agree with it when "virtues" they agree with are being signaled.<p>For example, what if instead of non-stop left-wing virtue signaling, enormous, multi-billion dollar companies were running ad campaigns with women who happily chose to keep their babies instead of aborting them. Stand with babies. Infant lives matter. Etc.<p>The left would flip their proverbial shit and demand that giant companies stop lecturing us on what is moral and what is not.<p>I was never comfortable with religious lecturing from evangelicals, and I am equally uncomfortable with lecturing from left wing secular religion (which is just as, or even more intolerant of dissent then the religious people).<p>You can raise awareness and raise money without wagging your finger and looking down on your peers.