friend's (vicar) husband posting racist bilge

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Long story.

A friend married an awful man (vicar). One of the reasons for his awfulness is the absolute disdain he feels for other people (including people going to his church). The way he used to talk about the (majority black) people in his old church made me really uncomfortable but I thought it was down to the fact he felt superior to just about everyone. I have actually considered reporting him to the Church of England several times for his online comments about parishioners/people in his community (always vulnerable ones) as from what I can see his activity does contravene their policy. He also has a photo of him in his dog collar and his online handle reflects the nature of his work so in no way is he posting as a private individual. However, I have always come back to the fact that if anything came of my complaint it would destroy my relationship with his wife - even if I haven't see her for ages - and it might hurt their kids, which I would not want.

Cue BLM and his FB and Twitter posts make it clear he is actually just racist. There is some pretty offensive stuff, but maybe possibly things that he could squirmingly argue are not racist because they are pretty coded (although tbf people had called him out on it). However, there was one Twitter post that was unequivocally racist. He took it down after a while as I think he knew he had revealed himself. It was in no way coded.

So. When I saw the last post I felt I had to complain to the Church which I did verbally. Then they asked me to write it down and send screen shots of his bilge and now I have stalled. I was going to complain and let him know I had complained. Now I worry about his wife and kids. My partner says just email him and tell him I think it is utterly wrong to a) be posting this at all but b) posting it as a religious leader, thereby giving it some credence. However, he's so fucking sneeringly superior I know he'll just be a twat about it. I really want to see him punished for being so mean and using his position of authority to legitimise his views. That being said, the Church of England isn't known for being progressive so perhaps they'll do nothing at all.

My question is - what would you do?

[quote BertiesLanding]@TheHighestSardine - Obviously metaphor is lost on you.[/quote]
Your word choice is possibly the worst possible in the world ever, for this specific topic. If you don't understand that you should have your keyboard put further away from you so you can think about what you did without embarrassing yourself further.

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Where on Earth do you get that from?

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Narry a word about dialectical materialism, as far as I can see.

Definitely report

Get him out. Dirty white establishment stooge.

@BlokeHereInPeace

If it's on social media rather than private groups, just send us the links. I'll report him.

And me

You really must report him. Unfortunately, there is often a conspiracy of silence when it comes to outing church leaders, this is why abusers got away with their crimes for so long, as has already been pointed out on this thread.

You know what the right thing to do is. Report him, anonymously if that makes it easier for you to do.

Because currently there are people who are getting lynched for doing little to nothing by people who cry "hate speech" when it's anything but. So, no, I'm not jumping on the "report him" bandwagon.

But if the OP reports this vicar, it will be up to the church to deal with it. No one is suggesting violence against him, are they?

Send an anonymous letter with print outs. So it can't be traced to you. Seems a bit off asking you to write it down. Or maybe you could change email address. I wouldn't trust the church to provide anonymity.

OP you could report anonymously by printing out the screenshots, ensuring his Twitter username is showing, and sending them as a letter. I notice a PP has suggested the same.