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Join a group of concerned organisations to let the National Union of Students (NUS) and its affiliated student unions know that they must revise their policies.<\/p>\n
We are deeply concerned by the increasing attempts from NUS and affiliated unions to silence dissenters \u2013 including feminists, apostates, LGBTI rights campaigners, anti-racists, anti-fascists and anti-Islamists \u2013 through its use of no-platform and safe space policies.<\/p>\n
We stand against all prejudice and discrimination. We agree that free speech does not mean giving bigots a free pass. A defence of free speech includes the right and moral imperative to challenge, oppose and protest against bigoted views.<\/p>\n
Educational institutions must be a place for the exchange and criticism of all ideas \u2013 even those deemed unpalatable by some \u2013 providing they don\u2019t incite violence against peoples or communities. Bigoted ideas are most effectively defeated by open debate, backed up by ethics, reason and evidence.<\/p>\n
The student body is not homogeneous; there will be differences of opinion among students. The NUS\u2019s restrictive policies infringe upon the right of students to hear and challenge dissenting and opposing views.<\/p>\n
We, therefore, call on the NUS to revise its no-platform and safe space policies to facilitate freedom of expression and thought, rather than restrict it.<\/p>\n
When: 17 March, 5-6pm Also tweet \u201cI call on @nusuk to revise safe space and no platform policies to facilitate not restrict free expression and thought\u201d, take part in the thunderclap campaign<\/a>, or email this message to the NUS at office@nus.org.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Join a group of concerned organisations to let the National Union of Students (NUS) and its affiliated Student Unions know that they must revise their policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":73964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[5967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73963"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73978,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73963\/revisions\/73978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWhere: NUS, Macadam House, 275 Gray\u2019s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8QB (Map<\/a>)<\/p>\n