Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker CZ | Judge:
First: Any critical understanding of the world should assume the epistemological viewpoint of the oppressed. Examining ethical problems from this phenomenological perspective gives a more objective and inclusive view of reality.
Jaggar , Alison 'Feminist Politics And Human Nature (Philosophy And Society)' 19 88 . P 371
"the achievement of... and thus ideological."

Ableism is the  master trope  of oppression—disability is the socially constructed foundation on which any group is defined as inferior.
Siebers 6: Tobin Siebers (the late co-chair of the University of Michigan’s Initiative on Disability Studies, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, and professor of English language and literature, and art and design at Michigan). “Disability Aesthetics.” Spring/Summer 2006. http://www.jcrt.org/archives/07.2/siebers.pdf

"Oppression is the... or cultural intervention."

The body is a stock issue as it’s the source of all knowledge and meaning. If we reduce disabled individuals to bare life and reject their experience, we reject their phenomenological view of the world, closing ourselves off to critical thought of the other.

Creal( Lee  Davis, “THE "DISABILITY OF THINKING" THE "DISABLED" BODY”, Course Paper for Ambiguous Bodies: Studies in Contemporary Sexuality, York University, 20 14 http://www.broadreachtraining.com/advocacy/artcreal.htm)

"A phenomenon experienced... social/political Matrix"
Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to mandate professors give compulsory trigger warnings prior to lectures, and courts ought to overrule any decisions regarding their unconstitutionality.
Doll,16  Jordan. "Trauma and Free Speech in Higher Education: Do Trigger Warnings Threaten First Amendment Rights?" Oberlin College Politics Department (2016): 1-68. Https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=oberlin1463557689anddisposition=inline. Web.

"Trigger warnings are... material hard going."

Competition

Mandating trigger warnings are a restriction on free speech.

The right to free speech includes the right to silence:
Keighley 06 ,  Jennifer M., Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Fellow, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School; J.D. Yale Law School, 2010; B.A. Brown University, 2006. "CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? COMPELLED COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT." Journal of Constitutional Law 4th ser. 15.2 (2012): 1-79. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Web. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1566-keighley15upajconstl5392012pdf.

"very soon after... not to say."

Compelled speech is a violation of free speech as it violates the right to silence:
Keighley 06,  Jennifer M., Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Fellow, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School; J.D. Yale Law School, 2010; B.A. Brown University, 2006. "CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? COMPELLED COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT." Journal of Constitutional Law 4th ser. 15.2 (2012): 1-79. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Web. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1566-keighley15upajconstl5392012pdf.

"the First Amendment... freedom of mind."

Mandating trigger warnings violates the first amendment:
Doll 16

"any policy on... the First Amendment"

Solvency Advocate

Net Benefits:
Without trigger warnings, certain people are excluded from
discussions based on their inability to participate because of past
traumatic experiences:
http://eagnews.org/american-university-student-government-demands-trigger-warnings-for-course-s
yllabi/

"trigger warnings are... be about students."

The Aff excludes those who suffer from PTSD and other disorders from educational discussion.
The affirmative social view of the impaired impact all of society, causing it to recreate an ethic of exclusion
Barnes, 1992.   Colin Barnes, Professor of Disability Studies in the School of Social and Health Sciences Halmstad University, 1992, “DISABLING IMAGERY AND THE MEDIA” KL

"They are fundamental... mainstream community life."

Discourse will promote consciousness of our own faults and offensive terms towards the disabled. This is the best long term solvency.
Heir '03:  Thomas Hehir, March 2003 Beyond inclusion: educators' 'ableist' assumptions about students with disabilities compromise the quality of instruction School Administrator, Tom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), http://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=9262

"The inclusion movement... should be included."

Discourse will be a step towards eliminating Ableism
Hehir '03

"well-implemented inclusionary... aspects of life."

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker CZ | Judge:
First: Any critical understanding of the world should assume the epistemological viewpoint of the oppressed. Examining ethical problems from this phenomenological perspective gives a more objective and inclusive view of reality.
Jaggar , Alison 'Feminist Politics And Human Nature (Philosophy And Society)' 19 88 . P 371
"the achievement of... and thus ideological."

Ableism is the  master trope  of oppression—disability is the socially constructed foundation on which any group is defined as inferior.
Siebers 6: Tobin Siebers (the late co-chair of the University of Michigan’s Initiative on Disability Studies, V. L. Parrington Collegiate Professor, and professor of English language and literature, and art and design at Michigan). “Disability Aesthetics.” Spring/Summer 2006. http://www.jcrt.org/archives/07.2/siebers.pdf

"Oppression is the... or cultural intervention."

The body is a stock issue as it’s the source of all knowledge and meaning. If we reduce disabled individuals to bare life and reject their experience, we reject their phenomenological view of the world, closing ourselves off to critical thought of the other.

Creal( Lee  Davis, “THE "DISABILITY OF THINKING" THE "DISABLED" BODY”, Course Paper for Ambiguous Bodies: Studies in Contemporary Sexuality, York University, 20 14 http://www.broadreachtraining.com/advocacy/artcreal.htm)

"A phenomenon experienced... social/political Matrix"
Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to mandate professors give compulsory trigger warnings prior to lectures, and courts ought to overrule any decisions regarding their unconstitutionality.
Definitions: Trigger warning|
Doll,16  Jordan. "Trauma and Free Speech in Higher Education: Do Trigger Warnings Threaten First Amendment Rights?" Oberlin College Politics Department (2016): 1-68. Https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=oberlin1463557689anddisposition=inline. Web.

"Trigger warnings are... material hard going."

Competition

Mandating trigger warnings are a restriction on free speech.

The right to free speech includes the right to silence:
Keighley 06 ,  Jennifer M., Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Fellow, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School; J.D. Yale Law School, 2010; B.A. Brown University, 2006. "CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? COMPELLED COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT." Journal of Constitutional Law 4th ser. 15.2 (2012): 1-79. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Web. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1566-keighley15upajconstl5392012pdf.

"very soon after... not to say."

Compelled speech is a violation of free speech as it violates the right to silence:
Keighley 06,  Jennifer M., Postdoctoral Associate in Law and Fellow, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice at Yale Law School; J.D. Yale Law School, 2010; B.A. Brown University, 2006. "CAN YOU HANDLE THE TRUTH? COMPELLED COMMERCIAL SPEECH AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT." Journal of Constitutional Law 4th ser. 15.2 (2012): 1-79. University of Pennsylvania Law School. Web. https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1566-keighley15upajconstl5392012pdf.

"the First Amendment... freedom of mind."

Mandating trigger warnings violates the first amendment:
Doll 16

"any policy on... the First Amendment"

Solvency Advocate

Net Benefits:
Without trigger warnings, certain people are excluded from
discussions based on their inability to participate because of past
traumatic experiences:
http://eagnews.org/american-university-student-government-demands-trigger-warnings-for-course-s
yllabi/

"trigger warnings are... be about students."

The Aff excludes those who suffer from PTSD and other disorders from educational discussion.
The affirmative social view of the impaired impact all of society, causing it to recreate an ethic of exclusion
Barnes, 1992.   Colin Barnes, Professor of Disability Studies in the School of Social and Health Sciences Halmstad University, 1992, “DISABLING IMAGERY AND THE MEDIA” KL

"They are fundamental... mainstream community life."

Discourse will promote consciousness of our own faults and offensive terms towards the disabled. This is the best long term solvency.
Heir '03:  Thomas Hehir, March 2003 Beyond inclusion: educators' 'ableist' assumptions about students with disabilities compromise the quality of instruction School Administrator, Tom Hehir served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs from 1993 to 1999. As director, he was responsible for federal leadership in implementing the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), http://www.aasa.org/SchoolAdministratorArticle.aspx?id=9262

"The inclusion movement... should be included."

Discourse will be a step towards eliminating Ableism
Hehir '03

"well-implemented inclusionary... aspects of life."