Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: 

1AC

Why speak when one can remain silent?

For Asian Americans free speech has become a risk not worth taking, creating a culture of silence that internalizes oppression. The university mirrors this oppression through a value system that displays Asian Americans as the model minority.

Osajima 7~2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands, "Internalized oppression and the culture of silence" http://nypolisci.org/files/PDF20FILES/Chapter20IV_209_20internalized20oppression20and20the20culture20of20silence20FEC2.pdf~~ RA
The overall impact of internalized oppression is that the oppressed become resigned to their situation
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have difficulty breaking with familiar patterns and feelings to answer questions in our classes

I experience the effects of the model minority myth daily – I am treated as an Asian first and a person second – this is a form of psychological violence that is part of a larger cultural narrative that is marginalized by control of the conservative forces.

Thrupkaew '2 Prospect Senior correspondent (Noy-; The Myth of the Model Minority; THE AMERICAN PROSPECT; April 7;
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_myth_of_the_model_minority)
The model-minority myth has persisted in large part because political conservatives are so
AND
, so people don't know the specific needs and contributions of our communities."

But this violence is silent – the right covers up this exception to uphold the model minority myth

Thrupkaew '2 4/7/02, Noy Thrupkaew is a prospect senior correspondent. "The Myth of the Model Minority," The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_myth_of_the_model_minority)
But the majority of refugees from Southeast Asia had no such advantages. Subsequent waves
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we rid white supremacy of the method in which it justifies racist policies-

This resolves 3 impacts

The psychological violence against Asian Americans

The oppression of other minorities that white supremacy justifies

The resentment between minority groups

장 '93 1993, 장 Robert S. is a Professor of Law and an Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, He also serves on the advisory board of Berkeley's Asian American Law Journal. "Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space", 81 Cal. L. Rev. 1241
B. The Model Minority Myth
This history of discrimination and violence, as
AND
(2) legitimizing the oppression of other racial minorities and poor whites. 

Racism must be rejected in EVERY INSTANCE without surcease. It is a pre requisite to creating ethical subjects

Memmi 2k (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165)
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
AND
.  True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible. 

We participate in debate without ever considering the possibility of how debate can change the world – Debate becomes more than a game, but a process of life leading to Conscientization. Our speech act focuses on the epistemological growth occurring from this activity and the development of a critical consciousness – our method enables us to advance and advocate the liberation of oppressed groups.

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p. 64
The fact that these young Asian Americans, from widely varying class, geographic,
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and conditions that contribute to the development of an Asian American critical consciousness.

Conscientization is a process of constant clarification that allows us to name the world and perceive how we exist in it – through this dynamic process we have already begun and will continue to create real change

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p. 64
Conscientization for these respondents meant being able to "name their world." That is
AND
.25 Naming the world was an important step toward actively changing it.

Experimental learning activities like debate are necessary for conscientization where we can refine our method and learn from multifaceted and interrelated experience that reinforce each other

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p.. 74-76
It is evident that young Asian Americans, like their 1960s counterparts, have continued
AND
reflection, can help to move students toward an Asian American consciousness.7

We need to be conscious of how history, debate, and knowledge are subjective and already embedded within ideological narratives, thus the role of the ballot is to performatively and methodologically utilize the debate space to engage in a process of conscientization –– our performative pedagogy can challenge not only the model minority myth, but also systems of oppression that operate within debate

Trofanenko 5 2005, Brenda Trofanenko is a research chair in education, culture, and community at Acadia University. "On Defense of the Nation," The Social Studies, 96.5, 193+; https://www.academia.edu/8276139/On_Defence_of_the_Nation) Accessed 10/29/14, LK
Knowing how history is a site of political struggle, how we engage with social
AND
but rather an opportunity for genuine productive study, discussion, and learning.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart MC | Judge: 

1AC

Why speak when one can remain silent?

For Asian Americans speech has become a risk not worth taking, creating a culture of silence that internalizes oppression. The university mirrors this oppression through a value system that displays Asian Americans as the model minority.

Osajima 7~2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands, "Internalized oppression and the culture of silence" http://nypolisci.org/files/PDF20FILES/Chapter20IV_209_20internalized20oppression20and20the20culture20of20silence20FEC2.pdf~~ RA
The overall impact of internalized oppression is that the oppressed become resigned to their situation
AND
have difficulty breaking with familiar patterns and feelings to answer questions in our classes

Asian American's experience the effects of the model minority myth daily – I am treated as an Asian first and a person second – this is a form of psychological violence that is part of a larger cultural narrative that is marginalized by control of the conservative forces.

Thrupkaew '2 Prospect Senior correspondent (Noy-; The Myth of the Model Minority; THE AMERICAN PROSPECT; April 7;
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_myth_of_the_model_minority)
The model-minority myth has persisted in large part because political conservatives are so
AND
, so people don't know the specific needs and contributions of our communities."

But this violence is silent – the right covers up this exception to uphold the model minority myth

Thrupkaew '2 4/7/02, Noy Thrupkaew is a prospect senior correspondent. "The Myth of the Model Minority," The American Prospect, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_myth_of_the_model_minority)
But the majority of refugees from Southeast Asia had no such advantages. Subsequent waves
AND
we rid white supremacy of the method in which it justifies racist policies-

This resolves 3 impacts

The psychological violence against Asian Americans

The oppression of other minorities that white supremacy justifies

The resentment between minority groups

장 '93 1993, 장 Robert S. is a Professor of Law and an Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, He also serves on the advisory board of Berkeley's Asian American Law Journal. "Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space", 81 Cal. L. Rev. 1241
B. The Model Minority Myth
This history of discrimination and violence, as
AND
(2) legitimizing the oppression of other racial minorities and poor whites. 

Racism must be rejected in EVERY INSTANCE without surcease. It is a pre requisite to creating ethical subjects

Memmi 2k (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165)
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
AND
.  True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible. 

We participate in debate without ever considering the possibility of how debate can change the world – Debate becomes more than a game, but a process of life leading to Conscientization. Our speech act focuses on the epistemological growth occurring from this activity and the development of a critical consciousness – our method enables us to advance and advocate the liberation of oppressed groups.

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p. 64
The fact that these young Asian Americans, from widely varying class, geographic,
AND
and conditions that contribute to the development of an Asian American critical consciousness.

Conscientization is a process of constant clarification that allows us to name the world and perceive how we exist in it – through this dynamic process we have already begun and will continue to create real change

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p. 64
Conscientization for these respondents meant being able to "name their world." That is
AND
.25 Naming the world was an important step toward actively changing it.

Experimental learning activities like debate are necessary for conscientization where we can refine our method and learn from multifaceted and interrelated experience that reinforce each other

Osajima '7 2007, Keith Osajima is a professor and Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Redlands.  REPLENISHING THE RANKS:  Raising Critical Consciousness Among Asian Americans; JOURNAL OF ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES (JAAS), February, Volume 10, No. 1; p.. 74-76
It is evident that young Asian Americans, like their 1960s counterparts, have continued
AND
reflection, can help to move students toward an Asian American consciousness.7

We need to be conscious of how history, debate, and knowledge are subjective and already embedded within ideological narratives, thus the role of the ballot is to performatively and methodologically utilize the debate space to engage in a process of conscientization –– our performative pedagogy can challenge not only the model minority myth, but also systems of oppression that operate within debate

Trofanenko 5 2005, Brenda Trofanenko is a research chair in education, culture, and community at Acadia University. "On Defense of the Nation," The Social Studies, 96.5, 193+; https://www.academia.edu/8276139/On_Defence_of_the_Nation) Accessed 10/29/14, LK
Knowing how history is a site of political struggle, how we engage with social
AND
but rather an opportunity for genuine productive study, discussion, and learning.

Policy changes and legal reform alone fail – racism and other forms of discrimination are highly adaptable – only a change in public consciousness can prevent legal changes from inevitably failing

Alexander 10 Michelle. "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" New York: New Press, 2010. Print
For more than one hundred years, scholars have written about the illusory nature of
AND
our history and the reasons new racial caste systems continue to be born.

Tournament: USC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake CE | Judge: Aron Berger

1AC

I am a demon with good intentions
The fallen angel that God failed to mention
I am fire
Providing light and warmth but destroying everything in the process
I am blind sight
The sound of silence
That empty feeling
I am freedom in America
I am a paradox
A hypocrite
A contradiction
An oxymoron
I am the idea that you cannot prove anything
I am gray
A tug of war between two immovable objects
I repeatedly tear myself apart and then put myself back together
There is no light without dark
There is no good without evil
I need the very thing that I hate
I am cursed
I am a human being

Welcome to University of Southern California! Here we can do LD debate and erase all negativity. Every two months the password to the symbolic register of debate changes – But debate doesn't do anything.

Status Quo Debate is structured by agential fantasy: we make impotent demands that are answered and alleviated by judges only to restart the cycle the next round. The affirmative is an investigation of desire that embraces the negativity of the lack.

We do not attempt to master this symbolic community – Instead we are an intervention that breaks apart the fantasy and opens up the new modes of debate that can name and claim what it wants without calling upon an inaccessible symbolic other

Lundberg 12 —- ‎Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant (Christian, Lacan in Public, Published by The University of Alabama Press, Project Muse)trepka
A politics defined by and exhausted in demands is by definition a hysterical politics.
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of enjoyment that sustain an addiction to mastery and a deferral of desire.

There is no more diabolic evil, only radical evil. Status quo understandings of language are complicit within a desire for wholeness that murders the real. Only embracing the negativity of the lack can destroy the binary between empty and full speech and create a form of authentic exchange.

Zizek 2005 (Slavoj Zizek, Qualified Philosopher, from Interrogating the real, page 171-174 / RA)
Jacques Lacan formulates the elementary dialectical structure of the symbolic order by stating that '
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abrogation of one's pathological interests, up to the sacrifice of one's life. 

Vote affirmative to endorse a discourse of analysis which opens the symbolic gates and enters the password: Universities ought not restrict free speech

There is a lack at the root of every social order that cannot be overcome because to fulfill one's desire represents the end of the subject as a social entity—attempts at creating a perfectly integrated order ignore this fact, ensuring violent depoliticizations.

Edkins 3
Jenny, U of Wales Aberystwyth; Trauma and the Memory of Politics, pg. 11-14
In the psychoanalytic account the subject is formed around a lack, and in the
AND
subject and the non-existence of any complete, closed social order. 

These fantasies of wholeness shape our political imaginary—the affirmative's reconceptualization avoids serial policy failure

Fotaki 10 (Marianna, Organization Studies Group @ Manchester Business School, Why do public policies fail so often? Exploring health policy-making as an imaginary and symbolic construction, Organization 2010 17: 703, Sage, 713-716)/
Towards an alternative conception of public policy-making So far, I have suggested
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of new ways of desiring, engaging and being in organizations and society.

There is no stable order that exists without us portraying one onto a world filled with chaos. Instead we engage in a strong-willed interpretation of the world that doesn't turn it into facts and statistics.

Grimm 77 (Ruediger Hermann, art historian and Goethe scholar, 1977, Nietzsche's Theory of Knowledge, ed. M. Montinari, W. Miiller-Lauter and H. Wenzel, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, pg. 30-33)
Western logic and metaphysics have been traditionally founded upon a handful of principles which were
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alles Werden als ein Feststellen von Gradund Kraftverhältnissen, als ein Kampf … 50 

The promise to resolve chaos is one that invests in the representational domain of mastery. This is a utopian vision of the world that necessitates genocide.

Stavrakakis 99 ~Yannis, Yannis Stavrakakisis teaching fellow at the department of Government at the University of Essex and Acting Director of the MA programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis, "Lacan and the Political" . Routledge. Pg 101-102~
In order to realise the problematic character of the utopian operation it is necessary to
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with the production of an archenemy which goes together with the utopian mentality.

Best studies prove our theory

Pizzato 10 ~Mark, Researches Affective Neuroscience and Lacanian psychoanalysis as professor @ UNC-Charlette Film Studies, published 4 studies of Lacan and neuroscience. 4"Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils," 2010~
I argue that these three Lacanian orders relate to the basic areas of neural anatomy
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"director" of the brains inner theatre (144-45).52

Tournament: USC | Round: 3 | Opponent: Meadows SR | Judge: Heera Ali

Framing

You have an ethical obligation to reject racism – a just society is a society accepted by all

Memmi 2k (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165)
The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission
AND
but the stakes are irresistible.
Thus the standard is minimizing oppression. 

The role of the ballot is to choose the best policy option between a topical plan and the status quo.

Util is impossible if a certain minority is valued and not equal to others. AC impacts come first since free speech is the gateway to every impact.

Heard'97- Andrew Heard is (Andrew Heard. "Human Rights: Chimeras in Sheep's Clothing: The Challenges of Utilitarianism and Relativism". 1997. 2017)
Utilitarian challenges to the enjoyment of human rights need not occur only in such extraordinary
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may not be traded off in determining the greatest good for that society.

There is a history of exclusion of dialogue from minority groups - the judge must act as an ethical actor and prefer our framework

Cohen and Zelnik'02 – Robert Cohen is a professor at NYU. Reginald E. Zelnik is a professor at UC Berkeley. (Robert Cohen and Reginald E. Zelnik. "The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s". 2002. 28 January 2017.)
What is lacking in these scholarly discussions is an adequate understanding of the larger context
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not just about black freedom, or white freedom, but American freedom. 

Our argument is not state good or bad but rather that learning about the state is good resist structures of oppression

Zannoti'13 -~Laura, associate professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech., Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2008 and joined the Purdue University faculty in 2009. "Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World", originally published online 30 December 2013, DOI: 10.1177/0304375413512098, P. Sage Publications~
By questioning substantialist representations of power and subjects, inquiries on the possibilities of political
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So my position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism

Racism

The current way institutions work has created a chilling effect on free speech, this has allowed for restrictions on a necessary human right.

Stanley'16- John Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University. (John Stanley. "The Fallacy of Free Speech". 2016. January 21, 2017)
On February 3, Jasbir Puar presented a paper at Vassar College critiquing Israeli policy
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, it is ironic that they became known as the Free Speech Movement.

Universities are not neutral arbiters for social justice – give them the power to restrict speech and it will be used to target oppressed groups - Empirically proven on and off campus

Strossen 90 ~Strossen, Nadine (She was the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Strossen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been called one of the most influential business leaders, women, or lawyers in National Law Journal and Vanity Fair)  "Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal?." http://www.jstor.org/stable/1372555 , Duke Law Journal 1990.3 (Jun 1990): 484-573. BWSWJ~
The first reason that laws censoring racist speech may undermine the goal of combating racism
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, she had been singled out for punishment because of her ethnic background.

Free Speech is necessary to challenge institutions. The impact of restricting free speech is racism and oppression.

Zimmerman'16- Jonathan Zimmerman is a professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania. (Jonathan Zimmerman. "Racism Was Served by Silence. Justice Requires Free Speech for All". 2016. January 21, 2017)
In 1986, the Senate Judiciary Committee turned down Jeff Sessions for a federal judgeship
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justice, which will never be served by the restriction of free speech. 

Bans are counterproductive.  They turn bigots into victims which just spreads the message of their racism.  Also, codes have been used against minorities.

Strossen 4 ~Nadine Strossen.  2000. Incitement to Hatred: Should There Be a Limit.  New York Law School http://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/fac_articles_chapters~~ Alpha
Human Rights Watch recently issued a report on discriminatory violence against ethnic minorities and immigrants
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with the force of arms. It shuts off opposing points of view.

This expands beyond the campus – experience in college is vital to criticism later in life – and rollback of college rights expands to society as a whole.

Sanders 2 (Chris Sanders, "CENSORSHIP 101: ANTI-HAZELWOOD LAWS AND THE PRESERVATION OF FREE SPEECH AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES", 11/30/2006 , Alabama Law Review JL)

Because Hazelwood, intentionally or otherwise, greatly expanded sec- ondary school officials' powers to censor student speech on a host of top- ics,115 college effectively provides many young people with their first taste of largely unfettered free speech rights. If Hazelwood follows students to universities, however, their introduction to a fully functioning free press could be delayed for years longer. This result would be disastrous for the journalism profession, which soon would find its ranks filled with freshly minted journalism school graduates inadequately prepared to pursue controversial stories aggressively and to endure the backlash therefrom. It also likely would exacerbate what appears to be a disturbing trend in American society: the existence of a sizable plurality of citizens who do not understand the importance of free speech rights. A 2004 University of Con- necticut survey of more than 112,000 high school students found that 32 of them think the press has "too much freedom" and that 36 believe newspapers should clear their reporting with the government before publica- tion.116 Meanwhile, the 2005 State of the First Amendment survey discov- ered that those beliefs often do not change much once citizens reach the age of maturity; 23 of the survey's adult respondents said the First Amend- ment "goes too far in the rights it guarantees," down from almost 50 in 2002 (shortly after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks).117 The exten- sion of Hazelwood to colleges could lead an even larger number of Ameri- cans, during some of their most formative years, to become more accepting of official limitations on the content of their speech.118 That, in turn, could pave a dangerous path toward vastly expanded federal and state speech regulation and a society in which "free" speech is nothing more than a dis- tant memory from an earlier time.