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+Public colleges and universities in the United States of America ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for professors’ and speakers’ speeches that may cause a mental trigger from a member of the audience but doesn’t have a trigger warning in front of them. To clarify, the professors and speakers must know from the university administration whether or not their audience includes anybody that may be mentally triggered by the material, and if there is anybody that could be triggered, a trigger warning must be given beforehand. |
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+Students may disclose if they get mentally triggered by something out of their own free will and with knowledge of the fact that the professors and speakers will be informed. |
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+Part 2 is the Competition: |
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+The CP is mutually exclusive: The Aff may not have any content-based restrictions on free speech even if it is speech without a trigger warning. Only the Neg can restrict speech without trigger warnings. |
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+Plus, mandatory trigger warnings acts as an unconstitutional prior restraint against speech without trigger warnings. |
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+Doll 16: |
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+Trauma and Free Speech in Higher Education: Do Trigger Warnings Threaten First Amendment Rights? Jordan Doll is part of the Oberlin College Politics Department. https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?0::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:115350 |
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+This analysis focuses on the use of a mandatory trigger warning policy. The |
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+how trigger warnings, if used as an accommodation, might add to the pursuit of truth. |
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+Part 3 is the Net Benefits: |
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+Neg actually solves the Aff better because it links in to all of the Aff impacts by continuing to allow other forms of speech. Plus, education actually improves under the Neg. Under the Aff, trigger warnings are not mandatory, and people who have experienced trauma will be faced with a mental trigger and may be unable to focus on school. Neg solves this. |
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+Manne 15: |
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+Why I Use Trigger Warnings. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/why-i-use-trigger-warnings.html Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University. |
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+Triggered reactions can be intense and unpleasant, and may even overtake our consciousness, as with |
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+to do so. Trigger warnings can work to prevent or counteract this. |
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+2. Turn: The aff perpetuates a culture of ableism by refusing to treat PTSD and other traumatic disorders as important enough to put trigger warnings for. |
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+Sam Dylan Finch a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. He is queer writer, activist, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his work at Everyday Feminism, he is also the founder of Let’s Queer Things Up! http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/opposing-trigger-warnings/ When You Oppose Trigger Warnings, You’re Really Saying These 8 Things |
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+Many of the folks who request content warnings are people dealing with PTSD. Symptoms of |
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+dealing with this disorder can actually participate when they’re ready and able.
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+3. The aff stigmatizes people affected with PTSD and trivializes their mental disorders. |
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+Sam Dylan Finch a Contributing Writer for Everyday Feminism. He is queer writer, activist, and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to his work at Everyday Feminism, he is also the founder of Let’s Queer Things Up! http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/07/opposing-trigger-warnings/ When You Oppose Trigger Warnings, You’re Really Saying These 8 Things |
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+Telling people with serious disorders like PTSD, anxiety, or phobias to just “deal |
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+seriousness that it deserves. And if that’s a little inconvenient, so be it. |
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+Part 4 is the solvency: |
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+Trigger warnings allow people to mentally prepare for the triggers and to employ techniques to help overcome it. |
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+Manne 15: |
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+Why I Use Trigger Warnings. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/opinion/sunday/why-i-use-trigger-warnings.html Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University. |
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+As teachers, we can’t foresee every instance of potentially triggering material; some triggers are unpredictable. |
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+able to employ effective anxiety management techniques, by meditating or taking prescribed medication. |
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+Even if my opponent can somehow prove that trigger warnings don’t work, mandatory trigger warnings still addresses mental illnesses such as PTSD as a serious problem and avoids stigmatizing people with these illnesses. This helps to solve ableism and oppression. |
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+If my opponent is planning to run theory, please ask me in CX whether or not I meet the interp in order to avoid frivolous theory. After this, we can work something out. If my opponent does not ask me, grant me an auto- I meet in order to deter not checking in CX. |
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+Also, PICs are key to real world education. Policymakers must present plans in order to try to pass them. PICs train people on how to present a plan and work to pass them. Real world education is most important because real world education is the best use of debate in the real world. |