Statement on Cofnas.

We at Autistic Inclusive Meets are horrified that Oxford University are hosting and platforming white supremacist Nathan Cofnas on November 17th at 6pm.

The free talk, organised by Oxford Reform UK, is titled An Evening with Nathan Cofnas: Is DEI Undermining Higher Education?.

Cofnas is directly responsible for the media public lynching of Professor Jason Arday.

His unconsiable, revolting, racist, discriminatory statements against Black people in general should not be accomodated or platformed at any reputable well intentioned inclusive educational setting.

We find it deeply disturbing disappointing and disgusting for a person with such divisive and discriminatory views to be given a platform at Oxford University to incite further hatred , and oppression towards people who are different.

Nathan Cofnas has caused the death of professor Arday.

He has shown no remorse, no regrets, no sympathy towards Jason's young family...and less than 5 months following Jason's death, he still considers it appropriate to promote his racist ideologies in one of the country's most prestigious educational institutions.

This decision to grant him a platform is shocking and is of very poor taste. It has no place in the context of the 21st century. This is an insult not only to the memory of Professor Jason Arday but also to all minority ethnic people and all neurodivergent people at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, and all over the world.

We ask for careful reconsideration and reflection regarding this event and we request, in the interest of public safety, that Nathan Cofnas's invitation to speak at Oxford be revoked with immediate effect.

We will be at the protest organised by Stand Up To Racism.

By Emma Dalmayne and William Vanderpuye, AIM Directors.