The owners choice. My choice is never go to such an unfriendly place. 

51 minutes ago, petermik said:

By putting this on mainstream social media and letting the rest of the world know what a racist establishment this place is hopefully it will hit their business hard.....

I doubt it, it’s a kind of upmarket restaurant/bar that caters to middle class and rich Thais, not in a tourist area or near the MRT/BTS. Less than 0.1% of their customers would be foreign. 

Hopefully these are just a few isolated incidents and don’t become a trend, although I can see these kinds of policies becoming much more common when tourists are allowed in Thailand again.
 

 

 

 

10 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

They probably just got sick of self entitled foreigners refusing to do the check in/out, not wearing masks etc.

 

Richard Barrow is in the business of controversy, its helps his social media, if there is a simple explanation for no foreigners, he wont be telling.

well said. I take most of what he writes with a massive pinch of salt. 

55 minutes ago, vogie said:

This guy spoke perfect thai, how did they know he wasn't Thai, I guess by his skin colour.

 

"Video clip by Yan Marchal of his attempt to visit Fullmoon Terrace & Bar in Bangkok. In his own words, he was thrown out because they refused to serve foreigners. This is part of a worrying trend in #Thailand this year where a small minority of Thais showed a xenophobic attitude"

 

 

His bar ......  his choice.   Just go to another bar.  

My response would be....Jam your Terrace Bar where the sun don't shine, Sunshine!

FANTASTIC PUBLICITY, well done chaps, await  "misunderstanding" answer   tomorrow

Makes me wonder  ????  Let's say I set up a bar and put up a sign that says,
"Farangs Only, We unfortunately can not serve Thai people at this time.  Sorry for the inconvenience."
Wonder how'd that fly socially, culturally, and legally?

24 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

We should be free to exercise our bigotry, racism and xenophobia, with violence if necessary. 

 

Instead, somehow humanity is evolving into a civilized society where such actions are frowned upon by snowflakes and nanny state-sheeple. 

 

 

ok ok, I think all but the dumbest of you get my sarcasm there. 
Racist bigotry cannot stand, in any form, in any culture, in any country - this is wholly unacceptable.  

A business is open to the public, some of you have argued the ‘right not to serve based on race or nationality’ - that’s racist & those of you who suggest such an argument just don’t get it. 
 

 

 

 

 

I had to read your first sentence twice as I couldn't believe what you had typed, thinking it's totally out of line coming from such a respectable gentleman such as yourself, i.e. from other posts/comments I have read over the years from you, then as I read on I came to: "ok ok, I think all but the dumbest of you get my sarcasm there". 

 

Ok, you got me, and totally agree with you, we do not have the right to refuse service to ANYONE, i.e. unless they are causing a disturbance etc etc etc, I mean would half these clowns think in the same way if the bar refused to serve a blind man with his guide dog by his side, seriously you people need to wake up and get in touch with the times, a person of colour, a person who's religion maybe different to your, a person who looks different to you, is still a person, a human being, he/she should be treated as an equal, and has as much rights to be served as you and I do and shame on you for thinking otherwise, it just goes to show how uneducated and insecure you lot are, perhaps you can get a job in that bar that refused to serve foreigners, as you would fit right in.

 

Just to clear things up, this loaded gun was not aimed at you richard_smith237 ????

 

29 minutes ago, steven100 said:

exactly ..... if you pay thousands of dollars to set up a business where you are marketing for a specific clientele then you have every right to refuse entry whether they be African, Indian or whoever.

Don't see why folks have to whinge and whoo ha about it ..... 

reminds me of the baby spitting the dummy out of the pram because he can't go inside.

 

 

You just don't get it, your comments define you as a racist, how can you publicly say you should be able to refuse Africans, Indians or whoever, shame on you !

 

I am sure an African or Indian would find your racist comments as offensive as I find them, they shouldn't be part of this discussion, it should be about foreigners being refused entry to this establishment, which is outright discriminatory.

 

People such as yourself must be so insecure of people with different skin colours, makes me wonder what the hell your doing here, should I call you a hypocrite ?

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

 

5 minutes ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

Another nonsense post by a boot licker

reported.

 

Please daddy tell the bad man off for insulting my support of xenophobia 

2 minutes ago, steven100 said:

It's his bar  !!!   not yours ....   lol  .. just grow some and go to another bar .  hahha

No one is believing you tough guy.

You would be crying like a baby if you couldn't get your fix and had to find another 7/11. 

 

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1 hour ago, champers said:

There are bars in Pattaya with signs up banning muslims, have been for years. 

I am reminded of the English bar in Pattaya that put up a sign just before the 1998 World Cup started. It listed no frogs, no krauts, jocks, argies, dagos, yanks, eyeties ... and on and on ending with no thais. All their Thai staff walked off the job and were only persuaded back by removal of said sign and a pay increase. 

The pub has bitten the dust because of the covid crisis, at least finished off by it.

If you are talking  about the one in Soi Yamato that has recently changed it's name to "number one June", that was a joke, humour you know. 

 

Anyway .... each to his own as they say.  If we all agreed on the same it wouldn't be a very diverse forum i guess.   lol

15 hours ago, Henryford said:

I believe in a free country bar owners should be allowed to serve who they want. Of course wouldn't be allowed in thought crime Britain.

Or many other places that rightly outlaw blatant discrimination based on race, ethnicity or various other factors.

 

33 minutes ago, steven100 said:

His bar ......  his choice.   Just go to another bar.  

Their beach ...... Just go to another beach.

Their Toilets ....... Find some other toilets.

Their buses ....... Find another bus.

Can't you see where this is going......... Apartheid.

6 minutes ago, Kadilo said:

No one is believing you tough guy.

You would be crying like a baby if you couldn't get your fix and had to find another 7/11. 

 

if I couldn't enter a shop or bar because the owner refused then I would look for a shop or bar that I feel was ok ......   I wouldn't jump up & down about it .....   it's not the end of the world,  plenty of more serious things to worry about than not getting entry into a 7-11 or wherever.  imo

 

but I can understand some getting worked up about it and seeing it as racist .....

just not me.

11 minutes ago, steven100 said:

It's his bar  !!!   not yours ....   lol  .. just grow some and go to another bar .  hahha

And what if this were BigC and you were told ‘Farangs can’t do their grocery shopping’.., it’s their supermarket chain, right? 
 

Of course that’s an unrealistic example...  or is it???? 
 

You see, the restaurant refusing foreigners is as wrong as a supermarket refusing foreigners. 
 

It is no more acceptable for a small business to operate in this manner than a large business, even if it is ‘just the thin end of the wedge’.

15 hours ago, steven100 said:

exactly ..... if you pay thousands of dollars to set up a business where you are marketing for a specific clientele then you have every right to refuse entry whether they be African, Indian or whoever.

 

No, in many places, you don't. If your business is open to the public, that means the public. Not just certain segments of the public that you might prefer.

 

If some farang here opened a business with a policy that said, "No Thais allowed,"  how do you think that's going to go over with the police, government, etc???

 

 

I give it a go this evening.

I am farang too, white and don't speak Thai.

Maybe the guy who went there is Chinese and not farang.

I don't blame the proprietors. The sign clearly states its because of the "rapidly evolving covid-19 situation" Thais are frightened to varying degrees of foreigners these days and rightly so. The average Thai patron would have no way of knowing when and how a foreigner entered the kingdom. They have no reason to keep up on travel restrictions. Recently when I go to a business in town where I'm not recognized they ask where I'm from - America - "oh so many people there with Covid" I or my wife need to explain that I've not been out of the country in nearly a year before they visibly relax.

3 minutes ago, steven100 said:

if I couldn't enter a shop or bar because the owner refused then I would look for a shop or bar that I feel was ok ......   I wouldn't jump up & down about it .....   it's not the end of the world,  plenty of more serious things to worry about than not getting entry into a 7-11 or wherever.  imo

 

but I can understand some getting worked up about it and seeing it as racist .....

just not me.

If you don't see it as racist, what do you describe it as?

The whole premise of the restaurant's policy is simply misguided and wrong.

 

Presumably, they're trying to protect against COVID. But the simple truth of the matter is, any farangs in Thailand these days pretty much have been here for the duration and are no more of a risk factor than any Thai people at large.

 

That fact seems to have escaped the restaurant and its management.

 

39 minutes ago, Snow Leopard said:

The owners choice. My choice is never go to such an unfriendly place. 

totally agree ....  find another more welcoming bar.  

1 hour ago, madmen said:

This needs to go viral. We should all share on Facebook 

Why? I don't care if they want to refuse foreign customers...it's for covid 19..don't you get that?

1 minute ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

The whole premise of the restaurant's policy is simply misguided and wrong.

 

Presumably, they're trying to protect against COVID. But the simple truth of the matter is, any farangs in Thailand these days pretty much have been here for the duration and are no more of a risk factor than any Thai people at large.

 

That fact seems to have escaped the restaurant and its management.

 

Just goes to show how brainwashing works. 
 

They can’t even see past the obvious and failed at the first hurdle. 
 

Farang = COVID  end of. 

9 minutes ago, steven100 said:

Anyway .... each to his own as they say.  If we all agreed on the same it wouldn't be a very diverse forum i guess.   lol

Agreed, the diversity is interesting. It also helps many of us understand how unhinged a lot of people are. 
 

Not specifically targeting you there steven100. There are some whacky opinions out there colouring many of the threads. 
 

The misogynists, the bigots, the racists and the downright dumb all lend to a more entertaining forum experience. It’s just concerning that these folks also walk amongst us and our children !!!  

Just now, Kadilo said:

If you don't see it as racist, what do you describe it as?

you see it as racist then that's fine, I see it as the owner having the right to choose his clientele and if he wants to have less customers then that's his doing. Look at Sukhumvit soi 33 area .... many bars only Japanese allowed, I was just reading how many landlords in Bangkok won't rent to Indians. Just a few examples. 

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

The misogynists, the bigots, the racists and the downright dumb all lend to a more entertaining forum experience. It’s just concerning that these folks also walk amongst us and our children !!!  

.....and the most dangerous thing is they don't even recognise that they are, they think their opinions are “normal”

14 minutes ago, steven100 said:

if I couldn't enter a shop or bar because the owner refused then I would look for a shop or bar that I feel was ok ......   I wouldn't jump up & down about it .....   it's not the end of the world,  plenty of more serious things to worry about than not getting entry into a 7-11 or wherever.  imo

 

but I can understand some getting worked up about it and seeing it as racist .....

just not me.

Same here..... 

 

But I am glad there are people willing to challenge these issues and fight those battles, thus, ensuring the path is paved a little better for everyone else.

 

It is for this reason I welcome such videos and reports which draw attention & awareness.