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1 +Colleges and universities have significantly repressed constitutionally protected speech—as political correctness defines the milieu of campuses, limits on speech have all but disappeared with the rise of Trump
2 +Burleigh 16
3 +Nina Burleigh (Newsweek's National Politics Correspondent. She is an award-winning journalist and the author of five books. Her last book, The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox, was a New York Times bestseller. In the last several years, she has covered a wide array of subjects, from American politics to the Arab Spring). “The Battle Against ‘Hate Speech’ on College Campuses Gives Rise to a Generation that Hates Speech.” Newsweek. May 26th, 2016. http://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/03/college-campus-free-speech-thought-police-463536.html
4 +More than half of America’s colleges and universities now have restrictive speech codes. And
5 +AND
6 +of his words would almost certainly be prohibited speech on most college campuses.
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8 +Trump is an example of how public vulgarity has returned to the political, disintegrating the ethical substance of public life—at the same time, restrictions which mandate politically correct speech contribute to the same destruction by normalizing state violence
9 +Zizek 16
10 +Slavoj Zizek (cultural critic). “The Return of Public Vulgarity.” Newsweek. February 12th, 2016. http://www.newsweek.com/return-public-vulgarity-425691
11 +We should be under no illusions about the meaning of statements like those of Netanyahu
12 +AND
13 +faceless institutions that regulate their lives in a nontransparent way is fully justified.
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15 +This seeming paradox at the heart of speech restrictions proves the undecidability at the heart of our symbolic order—political correctness guarantees that offensiveness will appear in a worse form that is masked by benevolence~-~-we must understand the power relations at the heart of language
16 +Zizek 99 Slavoj Zizek. The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. Pgs. 332-333, 1999. Google Books.
17 +In all these domains, the différend seems to be irreducible—that is to
18 +AND
19 +criterion in order to direct and posit a limitation to inherent scientific drive.
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21 +The culture of political correctness and the biopolitics of the university are two sides of the same coin—individual subjects are reduced to bare life, and attempts at transgression have failed because of our narcissistic subjectivities
22 +Huang 11 Han-yu Huang (Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan). “Risk, Fear and Immunity: Reinventing the Political in the Age of Biopolitics.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 37.1 March 2011: 43-71
23 +From his very early work onwards, Žižek has been preoccupied with how the bureaucratic
24 +AND
25 +), which ends up, again, disavowing the fundamental social antagonism.
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27 +Political correctness prevents us from truly overcoming inequalities—we choose to soften our language in lieu of challenging structures—only a method of shared obscene solidarity places ourselves and the Other on equal footing
28 +Merelli 15 Annalisa Merelli (holds a master's degree in semiotics and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from the University of Bologna). “Slavoj Žižek thinks political correctness is exactly what perpetuates prejudice and racism.” Quartz. May 8th, 2015. http://qz.com/398723/slavoj-zizek-thinks-political-correctness-is-exactly-what-perpetuates-prejudice-and-racism/
29 +“I’m well aware that we should not just walk around and humiliate each other
30 +AND
31 +can openly be made fun of, just as we do of ourselves.
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33 +Vote aff to affirm the obscene—Only the 1AC fosters intellectual freedom—language must be a conduit for venting our aggressiveness—censorship forces us to repress our desires, making physical violence inevitable
34 +Schwartz 86 Joel Schwartz (University of Toronto). “Freud and Freedom of Speech.” The American Political Science Review, Vol. 80, No. 4 (Dec., 1986), pp. 1227-1248. JSTOR.
35 +These statements suggest that Freud defends intellectual freedom for reasons similar to some of those
36 +AND
37 +(Freud, 1916-17, lecture 9, p. 142)
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39 +I affirm that public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech.
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41 +Violence is not always given rational articulation—that makes it impossible to comprehend simply through moral philosophy—only psychoanalysis enables us to understand the symbolic violence at the heart of political correctness
42 +Valentic 16 Tonci Valentic (University of Zagreb). “Symbolic Violence and Global Capitalism.” International Journal of Zizek Studies, vol. 2, no. 2. 2016. http://www.zizekstudies.org/index.php/IJZS/article/viewFile/108/108
43 +The major task of philosophical analysis of violence in contemporary world should be developing a
44 +AND
45 +only the tip of an iceberg made up of "systemic" violence.
46 +
47 +The role of the ballot and judge is to investigate violence through psychoanalytic phenomenology—this is uniquely key to understanding political correctness and fostering meaningful dialogue
48 +Schwartz 16 Howard Schwartz. Political Correctness and the Destruction of Social Order: Chronicling the Rise of the Pristine Self. Palgrave Macmillan, pg. 4, 2016. Google Books.
49 +The occasion for this has been what I call the rise, or the establishment
50 +AND
51 +is. It is in that spirit that we will undertake this inquiry.
52 +
53 +Self-reflexive interrogation of the psyche is essential to ushering in new patterns of symbolization
54 +Moon 13 Davis S. Moon. “Autonomy and alienated subjectivity: A re-reading of Castoriadis, through Zizek.” Subjectivity, 6 (4). pp. 424-244. 2013. http://opus.bath.ac.uk/36738/1/AaAS_Subjectivities_R_R_FINAL_DSM.pdf
55 +Alienation and Autonomy: Prerequisite, not Obstacle The key issue here is the psyche
56 +AND
57 +through Žižek as advocated here produces a new composite purer for being tainted.
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