Alexemplar
First Post
The point about virtue-signalling is the empathy is not for those who actually stand to be harmed by a situation, but for the other bystanders and what they think about it.
The goal here is not to help Native Americans, but to show off the subtlety of your sensibilities to other white people.
Thus it's is more like a modern permutation of baroque WASPy social etiquette than moral reasoning grounded in actual human suffering. It becomes grotesque when taken too seriously.
We don't know if that's the case here. You're making a lot of assumptions about the OP and their player's situation.