> claiming that parents adopt to “virtue signal” or simply to ostentatiously demonstrate their open-mindedness.
That's one of the more annoying type of phrases these days. I feel like people who use the term "virtual signaling" just use it as a filler for "I don't like you or what you do, so I'm just going to claim any good you do is a lie."
There do seem to be occasional narratives that target adoption. I find it very strange as the circumstances that people I know who have adopted their children from seem like situations you would never want a child to be in... but they have felt attacked by the concepts that in adopting they were imposing themselves on another nation or culture and doing something wrong. Meanwhile those children I know who were adopted are receiving love and the best care possible for a number of different challenges due to their earlier lives. What is it the people who make such claims think would happen if these children weren't adopted?
It seems like adoption for some reason fires up some low level responses in lots of different people.
That's one of the more annoying type of phrases these days. I feel like people who use the term "virtual signaling" just use it as a filler for "I don't like you or what you do, so I'm just going to claim any good you do is a lie."
There do seem to be occasional narratives that target adoption. I find it very strange as the circumstances that people I know who have adopted their children from seem like situations you would never want a child to be in... but they have felt attacked by the concepts that in adopting they were imposing themselves on another nation or culture and doing something wrong. Meanwhile those children I know who were adopted are receiving love and the best care possible for a number of different challenges due to their earlier lives. What is it the people who make such claims think would happen if these children weren't adopted?
It seems like adoption for some reason fires up some low level responses in lots of different people.