Tournament: VBT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough ZW | Judge: Dan Armitage
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,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casr.30185/full LADI
A recent report released...sex 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, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cfdd01dea4 LADI
I keep hearing about...speech” that I know of.)
Hate speech codes effectively address hate speech on campus – they empirically work
Hodulik 91 Racist Speech on Campus; Wayne Law Review, Vol. 37, Issue 3 (Winter 1991), pp. 1433-1450 Hodulik, Patricia https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/waynlr37andstart_page=1433andcollection=journalsandid=1445 BWSWJ
In sum, the experiences...originally feared by opponents.
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 at...get 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 policies...rights 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 the...hypertension, 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 challenges...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 faculty...terrify, or instigate violence.