Haha, well it’s a language exercise only insofar as it’s written in English! If you can’t follow the thread of an idea, and react with your emotions instead, you’re likely to misunderstand. But given that thousands of people have been able to follow the context of the examples given and you haven’t, I’m inclined to place the blame with you there.😉

Further making my point, you say you don’t see any "positive virtue or purpose" in the article, and yet you’ve neatly summarised it in this paragraph.

“I believe that justice should always be proportionate and tempered with mercy. In the examples you cited there may well have been overkill. Such over reaction only leads to further polarisation and is ultimately counterproductive.”

This is pretty much the entire thesis of the article. I’d just go one step further and point out that the normalisation of the idea that black people are spiteful weaklings is actively harmful to the aim of equality. I’d say there’s a great deal of "virtue" in opposing it.

So now you know what this “virtue signalling article“ is about, maybe the next time you find yourself reacting emotionally, try reading again, and if that doesn’t help, try expressing yourself like the reasonable person that you’re clearly capable of being. Resorting to bad-faith character attacks right off the bat isn’t a good look.