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but if you call it virtue signaling, you get categorized into the group that uses that loyalty oath most often, instead of the non-group member that is simply frustrated by the accuracy of it occurring

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well yeah, because you'd have to be virtuous to be able to virtue signal, and the ones who bring that up generally aren't.

It's the implication of virtue signalling that it's a facade?

If Steve the megarapist is writing articles about the latest popular injustice, does that make Steve virtuous?

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day, so they say.

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