Tournament: Stanford | Round: 4 | Opponent: Saratoga UK | Judge: Debnil Sur
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I affirm the resolution "Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech."
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Kitch, Nate. "Freedom of Speech Trumps Safety on Campus." Times Higher Education (THE). N.p., 29 Jan. 2015. Web. 03 Jan. 2017. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/comment/opinion/freedom-of-speech-trumps-safety-on-campus/2018189.article
As Theresa May's counter-terrorism and security bill makes its way through Parliament,
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stood up and declared that the university should never be a safe space.
Using restrictions as safety from certain speech is illusory and will lead to imbalanced political power. Kuznicki 09
Kuznicki, Jason PhD in History, Research Fellow and Editor in Cato Unbound. "Attack Of The Utility Monsters The New Threats To Free Speech." Policy Analysis. November 16, 2009. Web. December 08, 2016. http://www.thedivineconspiracy.org/Z5237A.pdf.
Today's would-be censors often have extreme political views. Many come from the
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imbalance in political power. The dynamics of this imbalance will be examined.
The negative's threat construction shores up an exclusionary and violent identity for the US as a national security state in opposition to threatening Others and justifies mass violence. Grondin 04
(David, Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa) "(Re)Writing the "National Security State" Raoul Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies AT
It is difficult to trace the exact origins of the concept of "national security
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similar pattern of legitimizing and constituting a national security state will be reproduced.
Securitization causes mass death and makes their impacts more likely. Neocleous 8
(Mark, Prof. of Government @ Brunel) Critique of Security 2008 AT
Not only could bourgeois Europe be recast around the regime of capital, but so
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apparatus intimately bound up with national identity and thus the politics of loyalty.
Vote affirmative to reject the negative's enframing and interrogate its epistemological failures—-this is a prerequisite to successful policy and prevents extinction. Ahmed 12
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis
While recommendations to shift our frame of orientation away from conventional state-centrism toward
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, effective, and joined-up policy-making on these issues.
The alternative is to rethink and redevelop our mindsets to get rid of this thinking.
For the previously stated reasons, I urge an affirmative vote.