Colleague sharing golliwog picture

[MissClareRemembers]

I have a colleague who has a habit of sharing Britain First type posts on Facebook. So far, so pretty unpleasant.

But today’s shared pic excelled itself: a picture of a golliwog coming through a door asking ‘’(Great Britain) can I come back in yet?’’

This is bad enough but the colleague in question works with young children and families of all races. She is FB friends with many of them.

At our latest Safeguarding training we were warned about sharing racist or offensive material on social media. This particular pic is mild compared to the type of material mentioned in our training, but still...

Is this a Safeguarding issue? Or am I way off the mark?

She is massively massively out of order

I'd actually be more concerned as to why she even has these people on her Facebook.

I work in a mental health unit and I wouldn't advise any member of my staff to have a patient or their family members as Facebook friends unless they knew them prior.. I think this goes the same way for a lot of places

My aunt does this. She shares all Britain first stuff, anything against muslims and multiple golliwog pictures. And she's a receptionist for the NHS, she should really know better. I reported post after post and commented first to point out what was wrong with them. Eventually I deleted her as some people are just too stupid to change. I came close to reporting her to her place of work out of annoyance, I'm pretty sure she would lose her job. Sounds like your friend would be in a similar position OP. I would either raise it with your supervisors to be honest.

Just had a quick look through her friends list and she is friends the most senior member of staff at work. I wonder if they’ve seen what she shares?

A huge part of me is saying delete her or at least opt not to see that type of post but the rest of me is curious to see how far she might go. It’s ramping up as Brexit gets nearer.

Screenshot it and send them to management.

It is a hugely offensive image isn’t it? I’m not being overdramatic?

You’re not being over dramatic at all. I’d report her. It’s totally out of order.

I thought this was going to be about a picture of an old jam jar or someone's treasured childhood golliwog.

That's not a "golliwog picture" - the way you've described it, it's a xenophobic and racist picture.

How did you get to see it,in that line of work it's even more important to report it. It doesn't matter that she is f.b friends with a senior manager.

Why the wink @petbear ??

Holey I’m friends with her on FB so it popped up on my feed. Jaw dropping moment. I have reported it to FB.

You're not overreacting, it is very offensive, particularly in the context used. I unfriended a friend's husband for exactly the same post, and always think about what a shit he is when I see him out and about.

From your description it's a message about perceived PC issues rather than immigration I'd suggest. I'd delete her and forget about it.

If she is supposed to be working with and supporting families from different ethnicities and backgrounds, I think you have a duty to report this to HR or senior management. There’s no way she can be treating everyone fairly or without prejudice if she’s sharing pictures of a golliwog ffs.

Her role is a support staff role within an educational setting.

Ok, I’m going to speak to the senior management team. I’ve taken screen shots.

Poloshot i think you are probably right that that is how she would try to defend the photo. But coupled with other shared images and a few off-colour verbal comments, I think it’s really a race issue deep down.

So strange you’ve posted this we have a gollywog issue at work too!

A member of staff came back from holiday and brought GW coasters for the office

All a big innocent hoo har now about how they were never offensive when she was small

I’m with Poloshot. Delete her and leave her to it. I’m not sure when it became the norm to police people like this. It’s not a nice post but if she is friends with senior members of staff then leave it to them if action needs to be taken.

For what it’s worth, I think it’s perfectly possible to have one view of people in private and still work with them on a professional level. I used to work with sex offenders. Did I privately feel ok about what they had done? Of course not. Did I do my job, act professsionally and treat them with respect? Yes. Point being, you can think whatever you want in your head but it doesn’t necessarily stop you doing your job properly. So no, I don’t see it as a safeguarding issue.

If you don’t like someone’s Facebook posts, unfollow, delete, block. I don’t really like all this “big brother” type reporting of people because of a stupid post.

How is it a safeguarding issue??

Having service users/clients on fb is the issue here.

I think it's offensive, as do the majority of posters in these threads on mumsnet, but apparently we're in the quite a small minority in the UK.

www.indy100.com/article/british-people-dont-think-golliwog-doll-racist-minstrel-black-stereotypes-yougov-poll-derbyshire-8461961

Sounds like your company has a Sm clause in your contracts and particularly if she has who she works for displayed in any way on her profile such actions could bring poor publicity to the company.

You mention "safeguarding" I'm not sure how being a racist fascist twat comes into safeguarding which I understand to mean practices and policies intended to protect the vulnerable but I'd be reporting her arse! And if the manager she's "friends" with isn't dealing with it appropriately I'd take it higher.

I find FB really inconsistent on this stuff, no doubt due to bots being employed rather than real people checking reports. I suspect it's only if a post is reported multiple times it's deleted that some kind of algorithm process is used rather than common bloody sense!

Storm4star do you really think someone who is racist in a job like this will treat their non white clients fairly? Come off it!

Screen shot them (and file safely )

And defriend her . I defriended someone for this .

You can’t be Facebook friends with someone who does this , in my opinion

Unfriend her but before you do explain why!
No ifs or buts.