Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mount Vernon EK | Judge: Michael Fitzgerald
Current protections against hate speech are working – on campus harrassment is decreasing nationally now. Sutton 16
Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16,LADI
A recent report...offenses and murder.
Removing restrictions on free speech allows hate speech – hate speech IS free speech
Volokh 15 Eugene Volokh,No, There’s No “hate Speech” Exception to the First Amendment, The Washington Post, 5/7/15,
I keep hearing...I know of.)
Hate speech leads to a genocidal increase in crimes against marginalized groups.
Greenblatt 15 Jonathan Greenblatt, When Hateful Speech Leads to Hate Crimes: Taking Bigotry Out of the Immigration Debate, Huffington Post, 8/21/15,
When police arrived...the ball rolling.
Racial insults entrench white domination through degrading subjects and positioning the state as a protector of racism.
Byrne ‘91. J. Peter Byrne. 1991 Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University. Georgetown University Law Center, Alpha
By now most...or cultural differences.
The aff’s trivialization of hate speech undermines our project against systemic racism and oppression as a whole. EVEN if you grant them their silencing impacts – that silencing is KEY to create a cultural shift.
Watterson 91 (Kim M. Watterson, 'THE POWER OF WORDS: THE POWER OF ADVOCACY CHALLENGING THE POWER OF HATE SPEECH', 1991 by the University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Kim M. Watterson, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 955 University of Pittsburgh Law Review Summer, 1991, JL)
Second, hate speech...will be strengthened.
Hates speech causes physical harm to its recipients. o/w any of aff’s “marketplace” impacts
Gould ’99 Jon Gould. 1999. THE TRIUMPH OF HATE SPEECH REGULATION: WHY GENDER WINS BUT RACE LOSES IN AMERICA. Michigan Journal of Gender and Law Alpha
One reason for...psychosis and suicide.”
It’s try or die for speech restrictions – leaving racism unaddressed will only make things worse, a proactive approach is key to solve. Garcia 10 (Garcia, Edelmira. "Perpetuating Racism Through The Freedom Of Speech." Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society. Ch. 5. Pg. 79. 2010. Web. December 08, 2016.
Undoubtedly, there are...to do so.
Hate speech chills...or instigate violence.