This is the opposite of Virtue Signaling. It is a way to broadcast to other ultra conservatives that you despise those different from you and judge others based upon superficial traits.
Jimmy Bob really was vice signaling to the MAGA crowd when he got up and shouted obscenities at the Pride Parade marchers walking downtown.
''Why you outside in the cold with no shirt on? You on some nut shit...''
''Boul on some nut shit wearing that fake ass belt''
''You on some nut shit fighting that lil ass boy''
a literal English translation of the Chinese phrase zhǐ lǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎), meaning something that seems as threatening as a tiger, but is really harmless.