Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 2 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Jeff Merrill
Neg Speech Doc 

Counterplan Text
Resolved: Public Colleges and universities ought to create safe spaces for students.
Downes 2016 clarifies advocacy
Downes, Sophie. 10 September 2016. “Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Free Speech, Too.” https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/trigger-warnings-safe-spaces-and-free-speech-too.html. Sophie Downes is a student at UChicago at the time of writing this article.
A trigger warning is pretty simple: It consists of a professor’s saying in class, “The reading for t....nor did these measures hinder discussion or disagreement, both of which were abundant.

Aff kills public colleges ability to create safe spaces and trigger warnings, and ignores the plights of minorities and other marginalized groups. Safe Spaces and trigger warnings key step to ending social stigma. Brackets for clarity.
Pickett, RaeAnn. 31 August 2016. “Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces Are Necessary.” http://time.com/4471806/trigger-warnings-safe-spaces/. Pickett is senior director of communications and public Affairs at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellows. 

After the birth of my first son, I had postpartum depression. ...
Safe Spaces are key to help students improve life- it is the ultimate answer to both problems 

Guterl’16- Matthew Pratt Guteral is chaior of American studies and professor of Africana studies, American studies and ethnic studies at Brown University. (Matthew Pratt Guteral. “On Safety and Safe Spaces”. 2016. 14 January 2017. JB)
I teach at an elite Ivy League university, where, for several years now, debates over free speech,... and to move towards this new ideal well in advance of some dramatic event or hurtful misdeed.
 

RACE
Uniqueness: Freedoms aren’t applied equally – students of color aren’t a part of the affirmative’s demonstrations because of distrust
Fang 16 (Marina, reporter @ the Huffington Post, “Most College Students Want Free Speech On Campuses — But Not When It’s Hate Speech,” 04/04/2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/free-speech-college-campuses-survey_us_5701c58ce4b0daf53aeff94e//LADI)
The survey noted that race plays a particular role in college students’ perceptions of First Amendment freedoms...increasing pressure on the company to crack down on people who use the app to harass others.

Link: Hate speech is protected under the 1st amendment
Volokh 15 (Eugene, reporter @ the Washington Post, “No, there’s no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment,” May 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.779cdacd2341/ LADI)
I keep hearing about a supposed “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment, or statements such as, “This isn’t free speech, ... (generally rejecting the view that a defense of truth can be limited to speech that is said for “good motives” and for “justifiable ends”); Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Hepps (1986) (generally rejecting the view that the burden of proving truth can be placed on the defendant); R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul (1992) (holding that singling bigoted speech is unconstitutional, even when that speech fits within a First Amendment exception); Nuxoll ex rel. Nuxoll v. Indian Prairie Sch. Dist. # 204, 523 F.3d 668, 672 (7th Cir. 2008) (concluding that Beauharnais is no longer good law); Dworkin v. Hustler Magazine Inc., 867 F.2d 1188, 1200 (9th Cir. 1989) (likewise); Am. Booksellers Ass’n, Inc. v. Hudnut, 771 F.2d 323, 331 n.3 (7th Cir. 1985) (likewise); Collin v. Smith, 578 F.2d 1197, 1205 (7th Cir. 1978) (likewise); Tollett v. United States, 485 F.2d 1087, 1094 n.14 (8th Cir. 1973) (likewise); Erwin Chemerinsky, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies 1043-45 (4th ed. 2011); Laurence Tribe, Constitutional Law, §12-17, at 926; Toni M. Massaro, Equality and Freedom of Expression: The Hate Speech Dilemma, 32 Wm. and Mary L. Rev. 211, 219 (1991); Robert C. Post, Cultural Heterogeneity and Law: Pornography, Blasphemy, and the First Amendment, 76 Calif. L. Rev. 297, 330-31 (1988).

Impact: Free speech in the abstract allows for micro-aggressions that cause violence to students—they have zero control over whether or not that person will be held accountable.
Ellin 16 (Abby, reporter @ the NY Times, “Studies in the First Amendment, Playing Out on Campus,” JUNE 22, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/studies-in-the-first-amendment-playing-out-on-campus.html//LADI)
The fracases have left colleges struggling to figure out how to help students and faculty members balance respectful discussions about race and diversity with open conversations on difficult topics.... the impact is an increased amount of hate crime with nobody doing anything about it 

Ross 16 (Lawrence, writer @ the root, “Blackface on College Campuses Isn’t About Freedom of Speech; It’s About White Supremacy,” October 31, 2016, http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2016/10/blackface-on-halloween-isnt-about-freedom-of-speech-its-about-white-supremacy///LADI)
It’s Halloween, so put on your seat belts, brothers and sisters, and get ready for an onslaught of racist Halloween costumes coming from ... And that’s more troubling than the costume itself.