The forum in eHub focused on providing students with a space to voice concerns and brainstorm ways that the Cornell community could start addressing underlying tensions that these incidents have brought to light. “If we don’t have a clear definition of hate speech, I think that the administration could use it to censor us,” Devatha said. “If we are going to define hate speech, our definition needs to be rooted in intimidation,” said Natalie Brown ’18. “It has to be a complete cultural change of this community if we want real community change,” Valadez said. Another attendee Jesse Goldberg, grad, elaborated on how any potential definition of “hate speech” also needed to incorporate historical power dynamics.

Source: Daily Sun September 18, 2017 18:00 UTC