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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,116 @@ 1 +==**1AC**== 2 +====I affirm the resolution, "Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech."==== 3 +===Framework=== 4 +I now offer the following framework to evaluate the round: 5 +==== ~~Value~~ I value morality as implied by the word ought in the resolution and because a more desirable world is one that is more moral. 6 +The sufficient neg burden is to prove that world where free speech is not present is more morally desirable. If they fail to prove so, then vote affirmative by default because the affirmative world is hence, better.==== 7 + 8 + 9 +====Furthermore, all people share an intrinsic value that comes from our humanity—each person has inalienable, equal human worth. Regardless of race, nationality, bodily ability, or gender, each person is born with equal rights and opportunities. There is no reason to think one person should innately be granted more privileges than another.==== 10 + 11 + 12 +==== ~~Winter and Leighton 99~~ Additionally, inequality is merely a manifestation of unjustified cognitive biases that make certain groups invisible. Psychologists Winter and Leighton write==== 13 +~|Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter~|~~Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice~~ "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century." Pg 4-5~~ 14 +Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about 15 +AND 16 +local cultures, will be our most surefooted path to building lasting peace. 17 + 18 +==== ~~Value Criterion~~ Therefore, the standard is to minimize structural violence by promoting strategies for criticism.==== 19 + 20 + 21 +====I defend the resolution as a whole and offer the following contentions in support of a vote for the affirmative.==== 22 + 23 + 24 +===Contention 1 is Killjoy=== 25 + 26 + 27 +===Sub-Point A is False Hope === 28 + 29 + 30 +====~~Strossen 90~~ Speech restrictions are used to oppress minority students - Empirically proven on and off campus. Nadine Strossen from the Duke Law Journal writes==== 31 +~~Strossen, Nadine (She was the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Strossen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been called one of the most influential business leaders, women, or lawyers in National Law Journal and Vanity Fair) "Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal?." http://www.jstor.org/stable/1372555 , Duke Law Journal 1990.3 (Jun 1990): 484-573.~~ 32 +The first reason that laws censoring racist speech may undermine the goal of combating racism 33 +AND 34 +, she had been singled out for punishment because of her ethnic background. 35 + 36 + 37 +==== ~~Fiorillo 15~~ Universities are cracking down even on professors with no explanation – dissent can be silenced on a whim in the squo. Victor Fiorillo, a Black Lives Matter activist, wrote that,==== 38 +~~CCP Adjunct Professor, Black Lives Matter Activist Suspended After Speaking at Rally Divya Nair to face a disciplinary hearing this week. A Change.org petition to reinstate her has over 270 signatures. BY VICTOR FIORILLO, OCTOBER 14, 2015, http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/10/14/professor-suspended-black-lives-matter-divya-nair/~~ 39 +Last Thursday, at a rally initiated by ~~at~~ the Revolutionary Student Coordinating 40 +AND 41 +adjunct faculty member, and they think they can get rid of her." 42 + 43 + 44 +===Sub-Point B is Counterspeech === 45 + 46 + 47 +==== ~~Calleros 95~~ Counter speech is effective and empowers activism. Charles Calleros, professor of law at Arizona State University, furthers==== 48 +~~Charles R. Calleros, ASU Professor of Law, Paternalism, Counterspeech, and Campus Hate-Speech Codes: A Reply to Delgado and Yun, 27 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 1249 (1995).~~ 49 +Speech as an Instrument of Reform: The Efficacy of Counterspeech Delgado and Yun summarize 50 +AND 51 +for, and some limitations on, their participation in such partisan speech. 52 + 53 + 54 +==== ~~**Giroux 16~~** Confronting oppressive conditions SHOULD make you feel uncomfortable. Limiting speech prevents a critical pedagogy that can teach students to fight oppression. **Henry Giroux, a famous theorist of critical pedagogy, writes in 2016====** 55 +~~Henry A. (Henry Armand Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice Giroux. Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. In 1983 he became professor of education and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he also served as Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to Penn State Univeristy where he took up the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University from 1992 to May 2004. He also served as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to McMaster University in May 2004, where he currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest.), June 20, 2016, Interviewed by Brad Evans, "The Violence of Forgetting", http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html?'r=0~~ 56 +There is a growing culture of conformity and quietism on university campuses, made evident 57 +AND 58 +to reveal that false hope and use counterspeech to truly solve structural violence. 59 + 60 + 61 +===Contention 2 is Authoritarianism Overseas=== 62 + 63 + 64 +====~~Economist 16~~ Restrictions on free speech allow authoritarian regimes to justify their own encroachments on civil liberties. If colleges openly prohibit forms of free speech, these violations will be found overseas in far worse forms. The Economist writes in 2016 ==== 65 +~~Under Attack", "The Inconvenient Truth", http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21699909-curbs-free-speech-are-growing-tighter-it-time-speak-out-under-attack~~ 66 +Intolerance among Western liberals also has wholly unintended consequences. Even despots know that locking 67 +AND 68 +and liberties by saying that the U.S. did so also. 69 + 70 + 71 +===Contention 3 – Economic Prosperity=== 72 + 73 + 74 +====~~Millsap 16~~ Free speech is key to economic growth, especially in regards to innovation and U.S. competitiveness. Adam Millsap of US News notes in 2016 ==== 75 +~~Adam Millsap of US News notes, 5-23-2016, "Free Speech Is Good for the Economy," US News and amp; World Report, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-05-23/free-speech-is-good-for-the-economy~~ 76 +Commencement season is now underway, and stifling speech are larger 77 +AND 78 +than commonly recognized. 79 + 80 + 81 +==== ~~Baumol 07~~ Furthermore, economic growth leads to more political freedom and democracy. William Baumol, a professor of Economics at New York University, writes in 2007,==== 82 +~~William, NYU Professor of Economics, Good Capitalism. 2007. Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity, 129-131~~ 83 +Now, ask the question the other way around: does economic growth lead to 84 +AND 85 +. The odds in our view suggest that political rights eventually will follow. 86 + 87 + 88 +==== ~~Rummel 91~~ AND, Democracy is key to rights protections and reducing all forms of violence. R.J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, writes==== 89 +~~Professor of Political Science @ University of Hawaii ~~R.J. Rummel, THE RULE OF LAW: TOWARDS ELIMINATING WAR AND DEMOCIDE, Speech given to the ABA National Security Conference on "The Rule of Law in United States Foreign Policy and the New World Order. Washington, D.C., October 10-11, 1991. pg. http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/ABA.SPEECH.HTM~~ 90 +Democracy is the successful institutionalization of the forces, culture, and techniques of non 91 +AND 92 +violence. And the epochal movement of our times is toward universal democracy. 93 + 94 + 95 +===Contention 4 - Institutional Criticism=== 96 + 97 + 98 +====~~Sanders 06~~ Limiting free speech prevents criticism of institutions – universities will crack down on student press and critical opinions. Chris Sanders from the Alabama Law Review writes in 2006,==== 99 +~~Chris Sanders, "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES", 11/30/2006, Alabama Law Review~~ 100 +Post-Hazelwood censorship disputes have not been limited to high schools; a number 101 +AND 102 +see a stopping point for the wreckage it could leave in its wake. 103 + 104 + 105 +==== ~~Sanders 06~~ This expands beyond the campus – experience in college is vital to criticism and rights activism later in life. Chris Sanders from the Alabama Law Review notes again, ==== 106 +~~Chris Sanders, "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES", 11/30/2006, Alabama Law Review~~ 107 +Because Hazelwood, intentionally or otherwise, greatly expanded secondary school officials’ powers to censor 108 +AND 109 +" speech is nothing more than a distant memory from an earlier time. 110 + 111 + 112 +==== ~~**Giroux 16~~** Confronting oppressive conditions SHOULD make you feel uncomfortable. Limiting speech prevents a critical pedagogy that can teach students to fight oppression. **Henry Giroux, a famous theorist of critical pedagogy, writes in 2016====** 113 +~~Henry A. (Henry Armand Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice Giroux. Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. In 1983 he became professor of education and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio where he also served as Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to Penn State Univeristy where he took up the Waterbury Chair Professorship at Penn State University from 1992 to May 2004. He also served as the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies. He moved to McMaster University in May 2004, where he currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest.), June 20, 2016, Interviewed by Brad Evans, "The Violence of Forgetting", http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html?'r=0~~ 114 +There is a growing culture of conformity and quietism on university campuses, made evident 115 +AND 116 +urge a vote on the firm affirmation of this resolution. Thank you. - EntryDate
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