Someone spreading race hate. Report to employer?

Facebook didn’t remove a comment saying ‘kll them all, they are all trrorists’ regarding a video of a child blown to pieces in Palestine. So… I’d say op must have reported something pretty horrific..

You might have a point. Some of the comments sections are pretty grim.

What bollocks. Until 20 seconds ago you weren't allowed to say a man was not a woman on facebook, and although there is a supposedly a new policy allowing freedom of speech on FB people are still getting temporary bans for speaking biological fact.

If Facebook thinks they're racist enough to remove they must be awful.

Wow, freedom of speech is well and truly dead. What someone posts on FB has absolutely nothing to do with their job. If they are behaving badly at work and in a racist manner report them if not stop acting like the gestapo.

I think the counter-argument to your point is contained in the post itself. "Potential racist". We don't know if the person is. i.e We don't know whether we're talking Mississippi burning, or questioning BLM's financial accounts. And furthermore, we question the OP's assumed position as arbiter over what is considered racist.

Ones definition of racism and Islamaphobia is not the same as another's. We are seeing this on here and out in the public sphere now.

I appreciate it isn't appropriate to specify exact details here.

If the posts are racist I wonder how someone thinks they can publicly do that without repercussions with friends, employment and more.

I can see someone saying ' white lives matter ' just doesn't understand the reason why people pushed for a black lives matter campaign. I can see alot of people here are just misinformed, very unaware of the inequality still for certain groups in say America at the hands of the Police. I would not go straight to 'racist' without further probing.

I personally would keep out of it. It does kind of depend upon the specifics though as some comments are going to be more scary and threatening than others.

While racism is pretty gross, I think it’s pretty cunty to report them to their employer for something that they posted on their own social media.

Given that you have them on Facebook, you could assume they are a friend of yours - why would you want to go out of your way to get them in trouble and potentially lose their job? Would you sleep better at night?

If you do choose to report them, own it. Provide your name and details, so your “friend” can know how you truly feel about them.

Report.

Can we report you to your employer for going out of your way to cause trouble/job loss to ppl who don’t share your views and doing it anonymously because you don’t even own your behaviour?

if the person is saying illegal stuff, report to authority via the proper legal channels (but I d bet it’s not illegal, you just don’t like to hear it)

But trying to involve their workplace to get them fired is a very nasty, cancel culture move

Wow the amount of people on here jumping to defend the potential racist is quite the eye opener.

People need to realise that actions on social media have real life consequences.

What is your motivation for reporting them? Is anyone at risk if they stay in thier job or do you just want them to suffer consequences?

I have called people out in person for making anti semitic and racist comments and had heated discussions about it, but to go to thier employer and get them sacked feels dirty to me, especially if they have kids to feed. All you will achieve is add fuel to the right wing fire if someone loses thier job for 'expressing an opinion'.

You should unfriend, block, mute, whatever you need to do on FB to no longer see this person's posts, then get on with your own life.

What would be your objective, OP? To protect people? To take vengeance? To achieve justice? To signal your virtue?

Some people are easily led. Good, otherwise fair people get sucked in by these Britain First type facebook groups. They agree that they want their poppy worn with pride, and that injured veterans should be at the front of the queue so sign up to these facebook groups. Those simplifications of complex issues can be a gateway drug into slightly more questionable statements. The same way in which supporting the Palestinian cause can quickly and unwittingly descend into antisemitism. I don't like it but have some sympathy with those that are manipulated. I don't want their lives destroyed for ill judged facebook likes.

It would depend on to what degree the entries were racist, e.g, do they indicate that the person couldn't possibly provide an equitable service to someone from the community mentioned. I assume it wasn't an illegal comment or you would have mentioned it

It would also make a difference on whether their page clearly identified who they are employed by.

I had one of these reported to me, but the person didn't identify openly their employer. Our legal team deemed it not requiring disciplinary action. I have the person advice on their security controls and suggestions on considering carefully what they shared and with who. I didn't agree with the post but it didn't stray beyond freedom of speech.

Indeed. Given that there are All New recent definitions of “racism”, who decides? Certainly shouldn’t be over zealous, politically driven, social media users.

Not as despicable as being a racist though.

I have always been of the opinion that you should own your decisions.

So if you are on a far right or antifa march: show your face. Have the courage of your convictions.

If you are reporting someone: put your name to it.

In this case: i wouldn't report to their employer unless they name their employer prominently on their social media. Then i would screenshot and email them, if i were going to report at all. (I probably wouldn't. report to the platform, but not the employer)

If the employer reads his posts and deems them OK, he will be fine.

If they think that the contents of his posts are racist and aimed at stirring up racial hatred, they may decide that they don't want a racist working for their company which offers a service to a diverse community.

What is Islamophobic? What is racist? Some say a meritocracy is racist, some nutters have even called Mathematics and 'The Countryside' racist.

Wow, who appointed you as commandant of racial harmony?? Aren’t you a teeny tiny bit self-righteous, censorious, sanctimonious and lacking in any sense of perspective? Maybe get a hobby.

Report. No room in society for racists, especially considering Islamophobia is RIFE.

No, I wouldn’t. Just ignore & get on with your life.

Completely unnecessary, and adds nothing helpful.

It would depend on exactly what they were saying/sharing.
For those saying it's putting someone's job on the line, then that's the fault of the person being racist, as anyone technically could report them.
If their profile shows their employer then I'd say yes. If their posts are genuinely inciting hatred then yes. But not anonymously.