What if it's not signaling, but actual virtue? That is, what if he is actually standing up to intolerance against different perspectives, whereby the intolerant seek to erode psychological safety for expressing different ideas by wielding pejorative words against a target on the basis of a practically imperceptible signal ("dog whistle")?
Written by Rex Kerr
One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.