The fact that there is a demand for fake evil, functioning like fake piety did in the 1600s, is a flaw of difficult-to-encompass proportion. Our culture is totally bankrupt if companies are now pretending to be worse than they're in reality able to be.

Of course, in contrast to piety all fake evil is also real evil.

You mean virtue signaling with the sign flipped?

> Our culture is totally bankrupt if companies are now pretending to be worse than they're in reality able to be.

I mean, yeah - it’s “he’s not hurting the right people” turned into a product or enterprise and then sold specifically to people who really like that message, and which employs people who desperately want to be in charge of hurting those people as much as possible.

It doesn’t even have the plausible deniability of being a social media company.