Bronx Science Manak Neg
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| Sunvitational | Doubles | I dont remember | Hanna Something, Tarrence Lonam, Parent |
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| Sunvitiational | 6 | Leon King Hi AB | Daniel Ciocca |
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| Sunvitational | 1 | Opponent: Cyprus Bay NT | Judge: Tom Evnon 1ac was tricks or something |
| Sunvitational | Doubles | Opponent: I dont remember | Judge: Hanna Something, Tarrence Lonam, Parent tricks aff |
| Sunvitiational | 6 | Opponent: Leon King Hi AB | Judge: Daniel Ciocca market place of ideas aff |
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1NR speech K verbatim screwed up the doc btwTournament: Sunvitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cyprus Bay NT | Judge: Tom Evnon Links Ashby 111 Zelinger 72
Impacts AANA 15’ Alternative Campbell 3
Framework Russell Nocella explains Extra Stuff | 1/20/17 |
1nr antiblacknessTournament: Sunvitational | Round: Doubles | Opponent: I dont remember | Judge: Hanna Something, Tarrence Lonam, Parent A. Debaters must use guerilla exegesis to interpret the resolution in the absence of other forms of subjugated knowledge production. This means the affirmative must critically investigate how Eurocentrism and whiteness may impact our discussions on the prohibition of nuclear power production. Hendricks explains guerilla exegesis: C.
2. Education The value of applying… genuine liberation agenda. D. Voters: Norms creation is a voter The challenges to… cost you the win. Competing interps NIHILISM: AC is a trick of time: Warren, Calvin L. "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope." CR: The New Centennial Review 15.1 (2015): 215-48. Web We continue to of political fantasy. The impact framing is resentment The alternative is political apostasy (same warren article) The role of the ballot is to endorse the best method for black-empowerment. Espinoza Critical pedagogy has internal neocolonial condition. | 1/20/17 |
Lay NCTournament: Sunvitiational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Leon King Hi AB | Judge: Daniel Ciocca First, Structural violence is exclusionary by definition; contemporary ethics will concede that there is value in moral dialogue. Oppression arbitrarily restricts voices thus solvinfgfor oppression comes first under any moral theory. Clifford and Burke ‘08 Our view of the nature of ethics admits the possibility of giving reasons, drawing on both knowledge about the social world, and on the feelings that are common (and uncommon) to human experience, but without assuming that rationality, empirical evidence or human feelings can either by themselves or even together provide an absolute basis for ethics. Too much is known about the variability of human values and the limitations of human rationality to make such an assumption complacently. There are many inequalities of wealth, status and power, both reflecting and leading to cultural and structural social divisions. The social context of the professional working with vulnerable individuals and groups demands recognition of the need to act in a way that minimizes or overcomes some of the complex effects of discrimination and oppression, rather than adding to them through collusion, neglect or lack of self-awareness. Even worse, obviously, would be intentionally adding to existing oppression and exploitation. What matters is the possibility of dialogue between individuals and groups – the attempt to act in an anti-oppressive way is itself an endless search for ethical values in which we continually negotiate with and learn from each other – and especially from the ‘other’, in the sense of one who is socially and culturally different. Second, Abstract moral and philosophical theories do not account for real world problems. Power is not a dirty word or an unfortunate feature of the world. It is the core of politics. Power is the ability to effect outcomes in the world. Politics, in large part, involves contests over the distribution and use of power. To ac- complish anything in the political world, one must attend to the means that are necessary to bring it about. And to develop such means is to develop, and to exercise, power. To say this is not to say that power is beyond moral- ity. It is to say that power is not reducible to morality. As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah Arendt have taught, an unyielding concern with moral goodness undercuts political responsibility. The concern may be morally laudable, re- flecting a kind of personal integrity, but it suf- fers from three fatal flaws: (1) It fails to see that the purity of one’s intention does not ensure the achievement of what one intends. Ab- juring violence or refusing to make common cause with morally compromised parties may seem like the right thing; but if such tactics entail impotence, then it is hard to view them as serving any moral good beyond the clean con- science of their supporters; (2) it fails to see that in a world of real violence and injustice, moral purity is not simply a form of powerlessness; it is often a form of complicity in injustice. This is why, from the standpoint of poli- tics—as opposed to religion—pacifism is always a potentially immoral stand. In categorically re- pudiating violence, it refuses in principle to oppose certain violent injustices with any ef- fect; and (3) it fails to see that politics is as much about unintended consequences as it is about intentions; it is the effects of action, rather than the motives of action, that is most significant. Just as the alignment with “good” may engender impotence, it is often the pur- suit of “good” that generates evil. This is the lesson of communism in the twentieth century: it is not enough that one’s goals be sincere or idealistic; it is equally important, always, to ask about the effects of pursuing these goals and to judge these effects in pragmatic and histori- cally contextualized ways. Moral absolutism in- hibits this judgment. It alienates those who are not true believers. It promotes arrogance. And it undermines political effectiveness. It is key to recognize that the aff does not solve for the root of the problem: a society that allows for these forms of hate to persist, and only makes it worse. It is not enough encourage “open-mindedness” and “sensitivity” especially when these passive efforts and rhetoric invariably lead to a culture that accepts and tolerates bigotry and harassment; a campus culture that hides behind “tolerance” and discourses of free speech undeviatingly creates a campus that is especially disempowering to marginalized students. Thus, my first contention is that allowing for the unrestricted use of free speech only feeds hate speech and fuels ensuing hate crimes. It is established that hate speech is permissible under the first amendment, it is only deterred by hate speech restrictions in place by colleges . This restriction on free speech in the form of anti-discrimination regulations functions as affective deterrents to hate speech. Hate speech is inextricably linked to hate crimes across the nation. Singh 12 Thus, the aff only contributes to the physical oppression of marginalized groups. My second contention is that free speech is not necessarily free to all. Giving the opportunity to speak is not enough. Even though marginalized groups are given the opportunity voice their concerns, their voices are not paid attention to. Spaces of open discourse are not always “Free”. Sometimes, certain individuals do not get a seat at the table. All speech is not free. Power inequities institutionalized through economies, gender roles, social class, and corporate-owned media ensure that all voices do not carry the same weight. As part of Western democracies, different voices pay different prices for the words one chooses to utter. Some speech results in the speaker being assaulted, or even killed. Other speech is not free in the sense that it is foreclosed: our social and political culture predetermines certain voices and articulations as unrecognizable, illegitimate, unspeakable. Similarly, neither are all expressions of hostility equal. Some hostile voices are penalized while others are tolerated. Hostility that targets a marginalized person on the basis of her or his assumed inferiority carries more weight than hostility expressed by a marginalized person towards a member of the dominant class. Efforts to legislate against “hate speech” within public spaces cannot, in principle, recognize the differential weight and significance of hate speech directed at different individuals or groups. If all speech is not free, then in what sense can one claim that freedom of speech is a working constitutional right? If free speech is not effective in practice, then a historicized ethics is required. Thus the discomforting paradox of U.S. democracy: while we may desire a principle of equality that applies in exactly the same way to every citizen, in a society where equality is not guaranteed we require historically sensitive principles that appear to contradict the ideal of “equality.” An historicized ethics operates toward the ideal of principles such as constitutional rights, but also recognizes the need to develop ethical principles that take into account that all persons do not have equal protection under the law nor equal access to resources. Within a climate of extreme backlash to affirmative action and to women’s rights, I propose what I call an “affirmative action pedagogy”: a pedagogy that ensures critical analysis within higher education classrooms of any expression of racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, or sexism, for example. An affirmative action pedagogy seeks to ensure that we bear witness to marginalized voices in our classrooms, even at the minor cost of limiting dominant voices. The situation only worsens as when minorities do voice their concerns, they are shouted down by the rest of society. The loss of these anti-discrimination regulations set by colleges only allows for this hate to persist and grow. This means all his contentions about the benefits of open discourse produce nothing productive, finding solutions from multiple perspectives is the only way to prevent bad policy. For example, when the constitution was drafted, most of the framers were Caucasian aristocrats, which allowed for systems like slavery to persist. | 1/20/17 |
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