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You didn't really answer the question.
Secondly, that's your opinion. You seem to think you're speaking for a whole forum when you say 'us'. Hundreds of thousands (?) of people. I know many people personally in this thread and I think they are probably, like me, trying to understand the why, who, what, where without all the keyboard warrior aggression hence me simply trying to have a conversation in a civil way.
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I'm saying I'm not beholden to answer your questions. I'm saying nobody on here is beholden to devote their time to engaging with or reforming someone who comes across as a smug, nasty, entitled little shit just because you want to use him as some kind of wider political symbol and reduce the damage he is doing to his own personal enterprise.
Keyboard warrior blah blah. I see no threats of violence? I'm just as entitled to express my opinion of the man as he is to expunge his immature bile upon the world via twitter.
Go have your considered, meaningful conversation with your friend in private, it doesn't require my or anyone else's participation and nobody is stopping you?
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I'm not really interested in acting as a Vanessa Feltz for confused racists tbh.
It's a cycling forum. Not publicly funded, not a journalism platform.
You have chosen to insert yourself into this thread as an arbiter because you have some kind of personal allegiance to him, I suggest you take the task of spelling out the shortcomings of his political views instead of placing that duty on us as some kind of proxy.
If I stopped to try and minister to every nasty blinkered cunt in the street in this country I doubt I would get much done with my day and precious little thanks for it. You pal clearly values his time more than engaging with anyone here in any sincere way so again, don't put your social burdens on us when it's you that's chosen to take it on in the first place.