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Anti-Racism campaigner no platformed for being racist
An anti-racism campaigner claims he has been prevented from speaking at a National Union of Students event following accusations that he holds “Islamophobic” views.
Nick Lowles, the Hope Not Hate director, said it was absurd that the NUS Black Students’ campaign opposed an invitation to him to speak at an anti-racism event.
Under the heading “ultra-left lunacy”, Lowles wrote on his Facebook profile: “So, it seems that NUS Black Students are opposing a plan to invite me to speak on an anti-racism platform because I’m ‘Islamophobic’.
“Never mind all the work Hope Not Hate has done challenging anti-Muslim hatred, it seems that some activists believe I’m Islamophobic because I have repeatedly spoken out against grooming and dared condemn Islamist extremism.”
And this follows a complaint about Peter Tatchell speaking partly because he signed 'an open letter in the Observer last year in support of free speech and against the growing trend of universities to “no-platform” people'.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/13/peter-tatchell-snubbed-students-free-speech-veteran-gay-rights-activist
It's getting a bit silly now isn't it? It's one thing not giving a platform to the BNP or whoever but there doesn't seem to be any logic or critical thought to these things.