Retired President Pollack spent the past year trying to dismantle free speech at Cornell and replace it with civil disobedience. However, the Theme Year for Freedom of Expression was not entirely successful because there are still pockets of free speech at Cornell where someone could say something or even draw something that is deemed hateful.

The civil disobedience we expect to see on campus this fall needs the complete elimination of free speech to succeed. This is the only way to ensure belonging.

The Harris/Walz ticket has our backs.

Jonathan Turley recently wrote in The Hill, “Democrats now have arguably the most anti-free speech ticket of a major party in more than two centuries.”

In order to emphasize the evil of free speech, Turley quotes Benjamin Franklin:

In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech….Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man.

We must be the ones who decide what is hateful misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation.

At Cornell we must work to eliminate free speech, which leads to free thought which leads to false consciousness so that all graduates will be certified inclusive Social Justice Warriors with exclusively critical consciousness.