Tournament: Emory | Round: 2 | Opponent: Vestavia Hills JC | Judge: Brian Wiora
Part One is the Framework
I value Justice
People are inherently equal at birth, so systemic exclusion of particular groups arbitrarily denies due.
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Finally to recognize...to building lasting peace.
Since justice requires rectifying actual mistreatment, we should address material conditions of violence first.
Pappas: Pappas, Gregory Fernando. Texas AandM University “The Pragmatists’ Approach to Injustice.” The Pluralist, Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2016. BE
In Experience and...to each patient.
The standard is reducing structural violence.
Part Two is the Myth of Speech Restrictions
Speech restrictions, although meant to help actually crack down on minorities since they are implemented and enforced by those in power
Gates 94(Henry Louis Gates 94, Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, “War of Words: Critical Race Theory and the First Amendment”, in Speaking of Race, Speaking of Sex: Hate Speech, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, New York University Press, 1994. RFK)
First, the attempt...the central problems
Speech codes do nothing to address the structural problems that need to be solved within society, they just drive oppressive thoughts underground where they are allowed to fester
Strossen 90 (Strossen, Nadine. John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law School “Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal?” Duke Law Journal, 484-573, 1990. BE)
There is a third...follow from it
Part Three is Challenging the Oppression
Speech restrictions by a university will always limit the amount of ideas which can be engaged with. Because banning these ideas removes them from the public eye, problematic opinions and beliefs can never be challenged or changed.
ACLU explains that; (Hate Speech on Campus, The American Civil Liberties Union
https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus)
Where racist, sexist...not social change