Similar to virtue signalling but done by means of buying trendy goods or services so as to display one's sense of contrived self-superiority: items such as books by politically correct authors, garish artwork purported to save
rain-forests, or FairTrade coffee that makes the buyer feel
woke; faddishly leftist buying habits that conform to intersectionality and other expressions of socially
popular SJW pseudoscience, especially popular among university students.
Asheleigh-
Meghan isn't going to actually read Michelle
Obama's new book. She just bought it to put on the coffee
table in case one of her black classmates shows up unexpectedly. It's more of a virtue-purchase.