You can signal virtue by actually being virtuous, or you can just talk about it.
Give me somebody who can actually do the work instead of talking about how great they are — or about how unfair others are to them.
Give me somebody who can actually do the work instead of talking about how great they are — or about how unfair others are to them.
Getting to the bottom of it all is hard, if not impossible given the power imbalance. So yeah, virtue signaling is important when different cultures teach you to show virtue in different ways.