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+====The claim that free speech leads to democratic debate and social progress is a neoliberal myth – the AFF's faith in the free exchange of ideas displaces a focus on direct action and re-entrenches multiple forms of oppression. Instead, the alternative is to reject the AFF's neoliberal framing of speech and direct pedagogy to focus on direct action against oppression. ==== |
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+**Tillett-Saks 13 **Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ //LADI |
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+In the wake of the Brown University shout-down of Ray Kelly, champion |
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+greater freedom. To the contrary, direct action has always proved necessary. |
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+====A radical pedagogical stance is key – anti-capitalist movements can be effective, but critical consciousness is a necessary prerequisite. ==== |
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+Peter **Mclaren 4**, Education and Urban Schooling Division prof, UCLA—and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale; University of Windsor, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2004, www.freireproject.org/articles/node2065/RCGS/class_dismissed-val-peter.10.pdf. //LADI |
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+These are the concrete realities of our time—realities that require a vigorous class |
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+memories. Its potential remains untapped and its promise needs to be redeemed. |
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+===Link – Right to Free Speech === |
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+====The AFF's assumption of a property right to free speech assumes an overly idealistic notion of society that ignores economic barriers and is a product of the neoliberal myth that individuality should be protected at all costs. ==== |
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+**Tillett-Saks 13 **Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ //LADI |
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+Yet there are many critics of the protestors who do not claim Ray Kelly's policies |
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+on: The oppressors or the protestors. The status quo or progress. |