He wasn’t removed for that, he was removed for making a private discord distinct from the other community council discord and claimed it was a direct line to said council. He essentially tried to make a back channel for the council run only by him.
The claim it was for ‘replying to a racist person’ was just a smokescreen on his part, and people fell for it because their brains are so smooth they rattle around in their skulls like ball bearings.