Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: TP Falcons FK | Judge: 

New affs are bad

1. Testing — forces us to rely on generics rather than specific strategies – k2 nuance and clash
2. Encourages students to value new above good – that's a bad educational mode
They get new affs but have to disclose it on the wiki before the round.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oakwood - North Hollywood LB | Judge: 

First Amendment protections allow white people to commit acts of violence and promotes a bystander culture that is eerily reminiscent of times of slavery

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
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They just stared ahead. And that's more troubling than the costume itself.

Freedoms aren't applied equally – students of color aren't a part of your 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
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company to crack down on people who use the app to harass others.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

Externalizing ethics onto legal institutions trades off with personal ethics

Rozo 4 (Diego, MA in philosophy and Cultural Analysis @ U of Amsterdam, Forgiving the Unforgivable: On Violence, Power, and the Possibility of Justice, p. 19-21, http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/tesis/colfuturo/Forgiving20the20Unforgivable.pdf)//LA *We don't endorse gendered language.
Within the legal order the relations between individuals will resemble this logic where suffering is
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– the law infiltrates into and seeks to rule our most private conflicts.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

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
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Calif. L. Rev. 297, 330-31 (1988).

Hate speech has intrinsic harm, particularly against women—turns case

Horne 16 (Solveig, Minister of Children and Equality in Norway, "Hate Speech — A Threat to Freedom of Speech," 03/08/2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/solveig-horne/hate-speech—a-threat-to_b_9406596.html LADI)
Hate speech in the public sphere takes place online and offline, and affects young
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in the public debate must show responsibility and actively work against hate speech.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

The affirmative relegates the question of the actor to a place of fiction – their understanding of debate is reflective of a Socratic notion of de-subjectification that makes life-affirmation impossible

Antonio 95. Robert, July 1995, "Nietzsche's antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History", American Journal of Sociology, Volume 101, No. 1
Treating words as mirrors of reality provides a comforting illusion of "certainty." This
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and overreaching and untrammeled ressentiment paves the way for a new type of tyrant

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

No internal link between the plan text and the solvency – Vote neg on presumption

Schlag 90 (Pierre Schlag, professor of law@ univ. Colorado, stanford law review, november, page lexis)
In fact, normative legal thought is so much in a hurry that it will
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in a position to put any of its wonderful normative advice into effect.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

K

The only ethical demand is one that calls for the end of the world. Their narrative of future legislative progress reproduces anti-blackness and prevents a paradigmatic analysis of modernity – the promise of "the future" prevents a full confrontation with the violence of the present because it creates the possibility of relief "to come" – only understanding time as anti-black accumulation can index existing conditions of violence

Dillon 13 (Stephen Dillon, assistant professor of Queer Studies @ Hampshire, ""It's here, it's that time:" Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames", Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2013)
According to Spillers, the anti-blackness inaugurated under chattel slavery is a death
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what the future will be. The future will be what was before.

The 1AC is the perfection of the slave

Farley 5 ~Boston College (Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp)~~
Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated
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beyond the veil, beyond death; hence, the end of forever.  

The law contains the pleasure of whiteness, and through it we see ourselves as masters and slaves. Oppressors fall into the pattern of enjoying the white-over-black dynamic. We need to remember that it will be easy to fall back into the past.

Farley 02, Prof @ Albany Law School, 2002 (Anthony P., 2002, "The Poetics of Colorlined Space," p. 99)
Race is a form of bodily pleasure, akin to sexuality. "Look,
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on; boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." 

The affirmative rhetorical silence on whiteness is an active stance that allows white privilege to thrive by masking its existence and treating is as an assumed norm.

DR. CRENSHAW 1997
(Prof of Speech Comm @ Univ. Ala.  Carrie-PhD. USC; former director @ Univ. of Ala.; WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION)
This analysis brings into focus several observations about how whiteness operates rhetorically and ideologically in
AND
the ideology of white privilege "works" through rhetorical silence about whiteness.

Fiat is Anti-Black

Reid-Brinkley 2008 ~Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "The Harsh Realities of "Acting Black": How African-American Policy Debaters Negotiate Representation Through Racial Performance and Style", P. 15~MHELLIE
Genre Violation Four: Policymaker as Impersonal and the Rhetoric of Personal Experience. Debate
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of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.

Blackness is Ontological - Objective anti-Black violence is the structural base for all conflicts. Nothing can outweigh.

Wilderson 11 (Frank, Associate Professor, African American Studies Dept., UC Irvine, "The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents", InTensions, Vol 5, http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/frankbwildersoniii.php~~#footxvii, LK)
 ~2~ With only small arms and crude explosives at their disposal,
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zone offers me sanctuary. I want to stop and turn myself in. 

The alternative is to endorse an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that allows us to overthrow the status quo.

Wilderson, '10
~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During
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, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: TP Falcons FK | Judge: 

K

The only ethical demand is one that calls for the end of the world. Their narrative of future legislative progress reproduces anti-blackness and prevents a paradigmatic analysis of modernity – the promise of "the future" prevents a full confrontation with the violence of the present because it creates the possibility of relief "to come" – only understanding time as anti-black accumulation can index existing conditions of violence

Dillon 13 (Stephen Dillon, assistant professor of Queer Studies @ Hampshire, ""It's here, it's that time:" Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames", Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2013)
According to Spillers, the anti-blackness inaugurated under chattel slavery is a death
AND
what the future will be. The future will be what was before.

The 1AC is the perfection of the slave

Farley 5 ~Boston College (Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp)~~
Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated
AND
beyond the veil, beyond death; hence, the end of forever.  

Fiat is Anti-Black

Reid-Brinkley 2008 ~Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "The Harsh Realities of "Acting Black": How African-American Policy Debaters Negotiate Representation Through Racial Performance and Style", P. 15~MHELLIE
Genre Violation Four: Policymaker as Impersonal and the Rhetoric of Personal Experience. Debate
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of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.

Blackness is Ontological - Objective anti-Black violence is the structural base for all conflicts. Nothing can outweigh.

Wilderson 11 (Frank, Associate Professor, African American Studies Dept., UC Irvine, "The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents", InTensions, Vol 5, http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/frankbwildersoniii.php~~#footxvii, LK)
 ~2~ With only small arms and crude explosives at their disposal,
AND
zone offers me sanctuary. I want to stop and turn myself in. 

The alternative is to endorse an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that allows us to overthrow the status quo. We agree with the premise of the aff but disagree with the affirmation of the resolution

Wilderson, '10
~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During
AND
, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oakwood - North Hollywood LB | Judge: 

K

The only ethical demand is one that calls for the end of the world. Their narrative of future legislative progress reproduces anti-blackness and prevents a paradigmatic analysis of modernity – the promise of "the future" prevents a full confrontation with the violence of the present because it creates the possibility of relief "to come" – only understanding time as anti-black accumulation can index existing conditions of violence

Dillon 13 (Stephen Dillon, assistant professor of Queer Studies @ Hampshire, ""It's here, it's that time:" Race, queer futurity, and the temporality of violence in Born in Flames", Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory, 2013)
According to Spillers, the anti-blackness inaugurated under chattel slavery is a death
AND
what the future will be. The future will be what was before.

The 1AC is the perfection of the slave

Farley 5 ~Boston College (Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp)~~
Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated
AND
beyond the veil, beyond death; hence, the end of forever.  

The affirmative positions freedom as a question of reclaiming humanity and participation – this view cannot take into account the gratuitous violence enacted on the slave. Their humanism is birthed from the murder of the slave.

Wilderson '10 ~Frank, Associate Professor at UC Irvine's Department of Drama and African American Studies, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pp. 21-23~
Again, what is important for us to glean from these historians is that the
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infinite—for they have no line of flight leading to the Slave.

The affirmative rhetorical silence on whiteness is an active stance that allows white privilege to thrive by masking its existence and treating is as an assumed norm.

DR. CRENSHAW 1997
(Prof of Speech Comm @ Univ. Ala.  Carrie-PhD. USC; former director @ Univ. of Ala.; WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION)
This analysis brings into focus several observations about how whiteness operates rhetorically and ideologically in
AND
the ideology of white privilege "works" through rhetorical silence about whiteness.

Fiat is Anti-Black

Reid-Brinkley 2008 ~Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "The Harsh Realities of "Acting Black": How African-American Policy Debaters Negotiate Representation Through Racial Performance and Style", P. 15~MHELLIE
Genre Violation Four: Policymaker as Impersonal and the Rhetoric of Personal Experience. Debate
AND
of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.

Blackness is Ontological - Objective anti-Black violence is the structural base for all conflicts. Nothing can outweigh.

Wilderson 11 (Frank, Associate Professor, African American Studies Dept., UC Irvine, "The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents", InTensions, Vol 5, http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/frankbwildersoniii.php~~#footxvii, LK)
 ~2~ With only small arms and crude explosives at their disposal,
AND
zone offers me sanctuary. I want to stop and turn myself in. 

The alternative is to endorse an unflinching paradigmatic analysis that allows us to overthrow the status quo.

Wilderson, '10
~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During
AND
, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu.

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Elite of Northwood RG | Judge: 

Free speech discourse is strategic whiteness – it fortifies white fragility and guarantees black lives won't ever be forefronted in the discussion.

Carpenter 16 (Bennett Carpenter, Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Program in Literature, Duke University, M.A., Literature, Leiden University, cum laude. January 19, 2016, "Free speech, Black lives and white fragility") Leokiminardo
White fragility refers to a range of defensive behaviors through which white people (or
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of both material and psychological retaliation. Everything else is just white noise. 

The affirmative positions freedom as a question of reclaiming humanity and participation – this view cannot take into account the gratuitous violence enacted on the slave. Their humanism is birthed from the murder of the slave.

Wilderson '10 ~Frank, Associate Professor at UC Irvine's Department of Drama and African American Studies, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pp. 21-23~
Again, what is important for us to glean from these historians is that the
AND
infinite—for they have no line of flight leading to the Slave.

The 1AC is the perfection of the slave

Farley 5 ~Boston College (Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp)~~
Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated
AND
beyond the veil, beyond death; hence, the end of forever.  

Blackness is Ontological - Objective anti-Black violence is the structural base for all conflicts. Nothing can outweigh.

Wilderson 11 (Frank, Associate Professor, African American Studies Dept., UC Irvine, "The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents", InTensions, Vol 5, http://www.yorku.ca/intent/issue5/articles/frankbwildersoniii.php~~#footxvii, LK)
 ~2~ With only small arms and crude explosives at their disposal,
AND
zone offers me sanctuary. I want to stop and turn myself in. 

The alternative is to endorse an unflinching paradigmatic analysis of that allows us to overthrow the status quo.

Wilderson, '10
~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During
AND
, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu.

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Elite of Northwood RG | Judge: 

Their model of debate destroys empathy and is bad for minorities

Reid-Brinkley 2008 ~Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley, "The Harsh Realities of "Acting Black": How African-American Policy Debaters Negotiate Representation Through Racial Performance and Style", P. 15~/
Genre Violation Four: Policymaker as Impersonal and the Rhetoric of Personal Experience. Debate
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of the "policymaker" and require their opponents to do the same.

There is no internal link between reading the 1ac and solvency – vote negative on presumption

They are more interested in playing hermeneutic games than engaging in politics, the preoccupation with pretending to be policymakers traps them in a spectator position and bars them from recognizing the bureaucratic violence of legal praxis.

Schlag 90 (Pierre Schlag, professor of law@ univ. Colorado, stanford law review, november, page lexis)
All of this can seem very funny. That's because it is very funny.
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who are largely the manipulated constructions of bureaucratic practices — academic and otherwise.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CL | Judge: 

The claim that free speech leads to democratic debate and social progress is a neoliberal myth – the AFF's faith in the free exchange of ideas displaces a focus on direct action and re-entrenches multiple forms of oppression.

Tillett-Saks 13 Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ LADI
In the wake of the Brown University shout-down of Ray Kelly, champion
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greater freedom. To the contrary, direct action has always proved necessary.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: Triples | Opponent: Brentwood JD | Judge: Panel

Their 1AC kritik preempts securitize their 1AC against certain members of the debate community.  The logic of preemption is based off of constructing the other as an enemy, which not only excludes people from the community but also results in endless wars and violence. Vote negative to preserve the right to live

Jabri 06 Professor of International Politics and the Director of the Centre for International Relations at the King's College London ~Vivienne, "War, Security and the Liberal State" Security Dialogue http://sdi.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/1/47~~
The practices of warfare taking place in the immediate aftermath of 11 September 2001 combine
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public life is geared towards combat against potential enemies, internal and external.

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Elite of Northwood RG | Judge: 

Debate is structured by agential fantasy: the aff is an impotent demand on the university that is answered and alleviated by judges only to restart the cycle next round. The alternative is to say no – only this breaks apart the fantasy

Lundberg 12 ~Christian O. Lundberg, Director of Cultural Studies and Associate Professor of Rhetoric at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012, Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric, pub. University Alabama Press, p. 165-175~
As a mode of individuation and subjectivization, egos are economies of frustration and compensation
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and productivity of frustrated demand as part and parcel of antagonistic democratic struggle.

Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Elite of Northwood RG | Judge: 

Their demand for uniform rationality is a violent technocratic eradication of the will that champions weakness and mediocrity creating a tragic ontology of ressentiment.

Ossewaarde 10. Marinus Ossewaarde, Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Twente, "The Tragic Turn in The Re-Imagination of Publics: Resentment and Ressentiment," Animus 14, 2010
For Nietzsche, the Heraclitean vision sees the truth about reality while tragedy subsequently transforms
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of manufactured dream-worlds, to fill an emptiness that never decreases.