Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mount Vernon EK | Judge: Michael Fitzgerald
Hate Speech PIC
A. Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for hate speech. Lawrence bracketed is the solvency advocate
Charles R. Lawrence III, “Crossburning and the Sound of Silence: Antisubordination Theory and the First Amendment,” 1992,
But there is...masters and slaves.
B. Competition: the counterplan competes both textually and functionally
C. Net Benefits:
Hate speech poses a direct threat to the oppressed. Banning it is necessary to promote inclusiveness.
Jared Taylor summarizes Waldron, 12, Why We Should Ban “Hate Speech”, American Renaissance, summarizing Jeremy Waldron, The Harm in Hate Speech, Harvard University Press, 2012, 292 pp., 26.95. 8/24/12, Note – Taylor does not agree with but is summarizing Waldron’s position
First-Amendment guarantees...drive out minorities.
Courts check—things like context solves for crowding out speech that’s productive to solve structural violence
Arthur 11 (Joyce, Founder and Executive Director of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada, a national political pro-choice group, “The Limits of Free Speech,” Sep 21, 2011,
A common objection...that critiques it.