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2 hours ago, Barnaby said:

I would like to say farewell to my Boro Fellow fans,I am not and never have been a Racist or as Weasel put it a Xenophobe,I spent 10 years in the RN along side lads of every race Indeed my babysitter to my Three girls was W.Indian. Hopefully this pandemic will end eventually and we can all go back to supporting the team we love,once again farewell and good luck for tonight

This screams of the "I can't be a racist, I have a friend who is black" line of defence.

You said something incredibly shitty and were rightfully called out for it and warned privately.

No need to seek further attention by announcing your departure.

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Can this be moved to the transfer thread.

This is why we do things by DM. Comments like these don’t add to the situation🤦‍♂️

To err is human.....let him that is without sin...forgive us our trespasses....we all say things that we don't think through...and the main thing in life is to try not to repeat our mistakes...if Barn

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9 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said:

This screams of the "I can't be a racist, I have a friend who is black" line of defence.

You said something incredibly shitty and were rightfully called out for it and warned privately.

No need to seek further attention by announcing your departure.

Pipe down.  Move on man.

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24 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:

It's gone from spreading borderline child pornography to a social media manager's new toy. Which is quite something even today.

Do I dare ask how you know 😱

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20 minutes ago, Denzel Zanzibar said:

This screams of the "I can't be a racist, I have a friend who is black" line of defence.

You said something incredibly shitty and were rightfully called out for it and warned privately.

No need to seek further attention by announcing your departure.

This is why we do things by DM. Comments like these don’t add to the situation🤦‍♂️

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1 hour ago, Changing Times said:

it was in reference to something, and it was also specifically about illegal immigrants quite clearly, not simply immigrants in general.

Technically they aren't "illegal" at all. These are people seeking asylum to the UK, which you cannot do legally, until you are in the UK.

 

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You should have quietly accepted the moderation action Barnaby and simply carried on posting on the forum but taking a little care about certain subjects.

It was not a vendetta against you at all but as a whole we need to keep thoughts to ourselves at times.

Come back whenever you want to however it probably was not the best idea to announce your departure

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Certainly didn't mean for you to leave and it was nothing personal. I actually enjoy a fair few of the posts you make on here. That being said, if I see xenophobia I'm gonna call it out. I don't know anything about you as a person and I never accused you of being a xenophobe, just that the comment was xenophobic and you should keep it to yourself.

I think this thread is a tad dramatic. Perhaps instead of leaving you should take aboard the valid criticism that comment got (not just from me) and do some self reflecting.

This country has a lot more pressing issues than a couple of thousand people trying to make a better lives for themselves.

 

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I think tbh Alan, it would have been better if yourselves (mods) or Barnaby had made the apology public. And I would have been happy to leave it as that. For the rest of us who aren't privy to these conversations, the original post in this thread just kind of looked like a public defence of his comments and not taking responsibility for them at all. Which is also why DZ has said what he's said.

As I've said already, the mods kept saying 'the matter has been dealt with' and yet Barnaby still felt he had to come and make a comment to defend himself, probably because being 'dealt with' makes him out to look like a villain. I'm glad it was dealt with but as a consequence of that, I actually think the entirety of this thread could have been avoided had a single, comment-locked post been put out to tell everyone the actions that were taken and the fact he had apologised. Let's not make this out like Barnaby himself is the only one who needs to learn from this, please.

As @Weasel has said above, Barnaby contributes a good deal to this forum 99.9999% of the time and I wouldn't want to hound him off the forum but I also wouldn't want to be a part of a forum that allows potential xenophobes to post those types of comments unchallenged and then everything kept hush as if issues just go away when people don't hear about them for a while.

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Some good thoughts here Wilson and some definite points to consider. The mod team is always looking to improve and refine, feeback really helps.

I'd like to think we can move on now and get back to what really matters. How many sitters are we gonna miss? 

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