I get what he was saying. But all the inflammatory social media posts in the world won't make a difference if people don't give them the ammo in the first place.
Nowhere have I said this was a racist attack from Cov fans against those two guys (although it still could turn out to be the case). I'm yet to see any conclusive evidence for that, but nor have I seen any conclusive evidence for the stuff that was supposed to justify what happened. The eyewitness accounts (notoriously unreliable), history of our club (??), or the presence of other non-white people at the party (meaningless) don't change anything for me. While people seem to be much more willing to believe one narrative than another, I'm happy to keep an open mind until I know the facts, even if it's uncomfortable for me.
You may well be right that the problem was the report of weapons, but it's naive to say the skin colour of the people involved had nothing to do with it. I'm asking you to try and think in a different way about this - is there a particular kind of person who you, or other people, would assume might be out carrying knives looking for trouble? Does race ever come into it? If not for you, than for anyone else? Is there even a chance that if you were in the same situation, you might have jumped to a conclusion in the heat of the moment? I'm not accusing anyone on here of being racist, but we all make those kind of assumptions (myself included), and it seems like a lot of people could do with thinking about that, and how it might have been a factor here, rather than just going for the easiest narrative in their head. Even if you're eventually proved right, and this all turns out to be brave Cov fans standing up against evil knife-wielding maniacs (good on 'em!), you'll be a better person for having thought about it in the first place.
