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Trying to be fair, there have been some negative comments to them previously, so I can understand them not liking Bru. It’s not always black and white and sometimes comments are disagreeable. However, that is the price we pay for being able to share an opinion. I have never understood why they cannot ignore such comments. Comments have rarely been truly defamatory and, if they have, they have been deleted.
It’s all too easy nowadays to wag fingers at everyone else and blame them for problems arising, like division. They speak as if they have been nothing but kind to others and got only vitriol in return. Yet, Maw was eager to call others parasites because they didn’t support Dodgy Dave. Yes, he said he was wrong in backing him, but has done little to curb his attacks on others and seems oblivious to how his own actions harm the reputation of himself and those around him, with his vaunted fundraising that he crowed about sometimes going to benefit his own group only and seedy messages to young women. He would lump any criticism of this with any insults, which makes it hard to take his outrage seriously, and think it’s because he doesn’t like dissent.
Positivity Dave doesn’t have that level of baggage, but is seemingly cut from the same thin skinned cloth, where any negative feedback is met with a melodramatic outburst and display for pity about how he is a victim. I thought he was harmless, but naff. However, yesterday’s outburst shows he is another one whose ‘positivity’ masks an inability to think about others. Like Maw’s ‘parasite’ remark, his ‘cancer’ comment is nasty. Even if some of the comments on here have been overly critical, that’s not how you respond, and someone who is truly not to blame for any division would not stoop to that level.
The group’s entertaining of Herbert is beyond the pale though. This is a guy who acted as a mouthpiece for the crook who nearly killed our club, went out of his way to smear critics and pushed drugs to kids. Any moral high ground they attempt to take is laughable when they treat him like the affable forum clown. He’s far more toxic than anyone on Bru.
After Hilton there was a general consensus of needing to unite and not hold on to grudges. Some maybe haven’t, but with that, those who feverishly backed him need to take accountability. Many on there love to portray Bru as this pantomime villain, painting everyone under the same brush because one or two post negative and sometimes cruel things, but won’t do anything about their own behaviour. Many of them won’t do anything about this holier than thou attitude that they have had for years. Never mind that this caused them to be blind to faults in Swann and Hilton, and those they chastised as club killing parasites were right. Can some people on here improve in how they frame matters? Yes, but so can they, so less of the talk of ‘toxic Bru fans’ is needed, especially after this rhetoric of theirs caused them to clap along to the club’s near oblivion, and they still can’t look at themselves and take the slightest of self-reflection.
