Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker AT | Judge: Bennett Eckert

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Cp text: Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to establish safe houses on campus.

I Reserve the right to clarify Pratt 1

Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Academic Discourse: Readings for Argument and Analysis. Ed. Gail Stygall. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 573-587
The fact that no one was safe made all of us involved in the course
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, claims on the world that they can then bring into the contact zone 

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I propose to say a few more words about this erstwhile unreadable text, in order to lay out some thoughts about writing and literacy in what I like to call the contact zones.
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Eventually I will use the term to reconsider the models of community that many of us rely on in teaching and theorizing and that are under challenge today. 

Engaging in the contact zone is what occurs when free speech is granted and this is unique to the academia. Pratt 2

Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Academic Discourse: Readings for Argument and Analysis. Ed. Gail Stygall. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 573-587
The idea of the contact zone is intended in part to contrast with ideas of
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a homogeneous competence or grammar shared identically and equally among all the members.

The academia is filled with rage; we need a place to discuss these issues safely with those who are similar. Pratt 3

Pratt, Mary Louise. "Arts of the Contact Zone." Academic Discourse: Readings for Argument and Analysis. Ed. Gail Stygall. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2000. 573-587
In the context of the change, a new course was designed that centered on
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every student. No one was excluded, and no one was safe. 

However, free speech can also allow immense miscommunication and rage making the need for safe houses required. (the author references Pratt) Watkins 1

It can be a dangerous place, where people are easily misunderstood and hurt.
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 Pratt also stresses the need for "safe houses."

Safe houses solve for ethnic minorities and groups of all culture. Watkins 2

                            Watkins, Mary. "Safe House." The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice(n.d.): n. pag. 2003. Web.
Because the contact zone is a place of such emotional turmoil, Pratt also stresses
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give people a place to work out and understand things in a safe environment

The problem with safe houses is finding one, the academia allows for establishment where one's need them more. Watkins 3

                            Watkins, Mary. "Safe House." The Concise Dictionary of Crime and Justice(n.d.): n. pag. 2003. Web.
Anzaldúa also feels that safe houses are important, but she points out in her
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by all of her people is not enough to form a safe house.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 9 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
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Message me for questions, if the aff is not on your wiki I expect contact through one of the methods.

Let's not make the round stressful and disclose pls

Everything I have previously read as of round 5 of Berkeley is on this wiki

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Straik Jesuit DT | Judge: Michael Harris

HEG DA

College campus activism against war undermines morale and forces withdrawal – collapses American presence abroad and causes massive instability that culminates in extinction

Janet Levy 7 ~(Janet Levy, ) Iraq's only Similarity to Vietnam: Its Dangerous Anti-War Movement, Accuracy in Media 2-28-2007~ AT
Contrary to media reports and the perception of a majority of Americans, the United
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S. allies and interests and threaten the very existence of our nation. 

Resolve is the THE determiner of American hegemony – it's key to deterrence and conflict effectiveness – anything else just prolongs violence

Eyago '5  7 / 8 / 05    Political Commentary – Sound Politics Reporter ~http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/004721.html, Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State~
Finally, I am angry at those who undermine our efforts to conduct this war
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our public leaders. What they do for political gain is completely unconscionable.

That's key to solve great power war and existential governance crises

Brooks, Ikenberry, and Wohlforth '13 (Stephen, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College "Don't Come Home America: The Case Against Retrenchment," International Security, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Winter 2012/13), pp. 7–51)
A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far
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that of potential rivals is by many measures growing rather than shrinking. 85

Turn – War engenders worse forms of oppression and suppression of rights

Goldstein 1—Prof  PoliSci @ American University, Joshua, War and Gender , P. 412
First, peace activists face a dilemma in thinking about causes of war and working
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on injustice as the main cause of war seems to be empirically inadequate.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker AT | Judge: Bennet Eckert

Limits on free speech are good. First, neoliberalism makes free speech and agonistic dialogue impossible; restrictions are inevitable. Second, restrictions reveal the authoritarian nature of neolib and surface its contradictions – that causes antagonistic protests that are more effective than simple "dialogue" that can't reach a mass audience

Musil 14 ~Pelin Ayan, Does Antagonism Precede Agonism in Challenging Neoliberalism? The Gezi Resistance in Turkey. Acta Politologica 6, 3, 326-342. ISSN 1803-8220.~ AT
When agonistic politics cannot develop to the extent that it can successfully challenge neoliberalism to
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hidden severity of neoliberalism that claims to have a tolerant and democratic identity.

Free speech is an illusion propagated by corporatists – their model of rights assumes an equal playing field analogous to free market economists view of capital. The promotion of free speech perpetuates the idea that speech is a commodity, which strengthens neoliberalism's hold on the academy. Brown 15

Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.
At times, kennedy raises the pitch in Citizens United to depict limits on corporate
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warring forces parallel to those of government and capital in a neoliberal economy.

This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life. Smith '14

R.C. Smith April 24, 2014 "POWER, CAPITAL and THE RISE OF THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: ON THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY, ETHICS, DISENCHANTMENT and CRITICAL THEORY" Heathwood Institute and Press http://www.heathwoodpress.com/power-capital-the-rise-of-the-mass-surveillance-state-on-the-absence-of-democracy-ethics-disenchantment-critical-theory/ JJN from file
One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have
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which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.~13~

Best data proves industrial civilization is unsustainable absent major structural changes – capitalism is driving us on a course to collapse

Ahmed 14 ~Nafeez Ahmed (executive director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development). "Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?" The Guardian. Published 3/14, Updated 3/16/14~ AJ
A new study partly-sponsored by Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center has highlighted the
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Hegemony is not an option; it's Anarchism or bust I am afraid. 

The role of the judge is to be a critical analyst testing whether the underlying assumptions of the AFF are valid. This is a question of the whether the AFF scholarship is good.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Interlake MW | Judge: Calen Smith

European conceptions of reason/body dualism posit non-white people – especially women – as irrational and closer to nature, and therefore dominable and exploitable

Quijano 2000 (Anibal, Professor of sociology at Binghamton University, "Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America," http://www.unc.edu/~~aescobar/wan/wanquijano.pdf, 2000)
With Descartes the mutation of the ancient dualist approach to the bodyand the nonbodytook
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the explanation of the character and trajectory of this perspective of knowledge.

ANY philosophical project that relies on rationality as a universal ethical principle justifies colonialism by treating their narrow vision of reason as an absolute strategy to judge others against

Minnich 1900 ~Elizabeth Kamarck, Senior Scholar, the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Transforming Knowledge. 1900. Pg. 115-16~
The responses to such questions that are suggested by these books may and may not
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of "rational," is not the same as the anti-rational.

Rationality has historically been a tool used by Western thinkers to invent fundamental differences between Europe and the rest of humanity in order to justify the inferiority of non-white peoples.

Eze 97 Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze ~African philosophy: an anthology. "Modern Western Philosophy and African Colonialism."1997~
When Western philosophy speaks of "reason." It is not just speaking of "
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and Africans as a way of justifying unspeakable exploitation and denigration of Africans.

Theories must take into account their historical and social conditions – anything else fails since it assumes the wrong starting point for a moral theory. Theories that are colorblind don't take into account the social background that all theories are embedded in – a social background of racism – this makes their theories a tool of racism

Walsh 4 ~(Kenneth, Staff Writer, Boston College Third World Law Journal) "COLOR-BLIND RACISM IN GRUTTER AND GRATZ" Boston College Third World Law Journal, Volume 24 No 2, 2004. Review of RACISM WITHOUT RACISTS: COLOR-BLIND RACISM AND THE PERSISTENCE OF RACIAL INEQUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES. By Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Lanham, Boulder, New York, and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield 2003. Pp. 213.~ AT
In his book, Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence
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by obscuring the fact that there is even a problem to fix.161

More generally, colorblind theories ignore the way their claims are always understood within a context of racial inequality. Sustained historical critique—revealing the ways universal claims are invoked to justify racism—is necessary to reclaim abstract theories

McCarthy 1 ~(Thomas, Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern Univ) "Political Philosophy and Racial Injustice: From Normative to Critical Theory"~ AT
In interpreting the languages of political thought, normative theorists too often take abstract formulations
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what mediation it does provide is usually only tacit and always drastically restricted.

Racism allows for dehumanization and degradation of the colonized.

Hayes 96 ~Floyd W. Hayes III Fanon: a critical reader Ed. Lewis Ricardo Gordon, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. "Fanon, Oppression and Resentment: The Black Experience In the United States." 1996.~
Fanon points out that in the colonial situation the primary thrust of the Master in
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sees himself as engaged analytically, critically, in a form of unveiling.

Thus, the (counter) role of the ballot is to evaluate and reject epistemological positions through the context of colonialism. To clarify, scrutinize the way each side presents their arguments, ethics, and epistemology, and choose to reject the position that enhances the strength of colonialism.

This modern global order of domination is justified by philosophical tradition – from our privileged standpoint we have a choice to sustain and replicate this evil or fight it. Vote neg to choose resistance.

Serequeberhan ~Tsenay, Prof. Philosophy. Morgan State University. Post Colonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader. "The Critique of Eurocentrism." Pg. 154-57~
From all of the above, then, Kant's historicopolitical texts - and, as
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African philosophy; its critical-negative project –the critique of Eurocentrism.

Thus the alternative is to reject their mode of thinking, and engage with radical subjectivity. This involves a recognition that peoples have different lived experiences and ways of understanding the world that are not the white, Eurocentric thinking of the aff.