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All right, @churchofengland, #AnglicanTwitter, @oxforddiocese (St Paul's, Slough) - which, handily, happens to be mine - I need a word. Who, in the name of all that is holy, thought THIS was a good idea? FFS. Tweeps, what is wrong w/ this picture? Answers in comments. 🧵 1/ 
How is this wrong? Let me count the ways.
I'm sure, white CoE digital comms person who put this template together, you thought the spotlight on the eager black woman at the front was...what, diversity? Inclusive? What?
It IS *two* things: fake & tokenism.
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I'm sure, white CoE digital comms person who put this template together, you thought the spotlight on the eager black woman at the front was...what, diversity? Inclusive? What?
It IS *two* things: fake & tokenism.
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Look at the picture closely. She is sitting in front of a black person and a...*CLEARLY SIKH PERSON, who won't be seeking ANY role in the Church of England*, whose faces we can't see, so you've *literally erased them* in a poster meant to focus on them. 3/
