Tournament: VBT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Phoenix Country Day PW | Judge: Connor Riano
A. Counterplan text - Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech that criticizes the military's policies – EXCEPT for banning speakers with a racist history and / or who advocate for hate speech.
B. Competition – Counterplan competes via mutual exclusivity. I clarified in CX that the aff defends ANY speaker being allowed on college campuses. Further the Wilson, the solvency advocate, says that “ All colleges should prohibit banning speakers, even if they dissent from a particular orthodoxy.”
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C. Net Benefits –
Hateful speakers have real impacts on students – they promote bullying and even cause people to drop out.
Duffy 16 (Nick Duffy 15th December 2016, 1:53 PM, "University ignored warnings about far-right speaker, leaving him free to bully trans student on stage",
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/12/15/university-ignored-warnings-about-far-right-speaker-leaving-him-free-to-bully-trans-student-on-stage/)
A university ignored…quitting the university.
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, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-greenblatt/when-hateful-speech-leads_b_8022966.html LADI
When police arrived…the ball rolling.
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 bracketed 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.” 30
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. http://www.academia.edu/958890/Strategies_for_Achieving_Diversity_in_Urban_Planni ng_A_Case_Study_at_the_University_of_Illinois.)
Undoubtedly, there are…continue to do so.
Hate speech chills campus behavior – this turns AC impacts. Tsesis 10(Tsesis, Alexander. "Burning Crosses On Campus: University Hate Speech Codes." Connecticut Law Review 617. 2010. Web. December 05, 2016. http://lawecommons.luc.edu/facpubs/131/.)
Allowing students or…or instigate violence.