Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Jett Poskey | Judge: Courtney Hornsby
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Contention 1 is the College Space

College trends against microaggressions deter meaningful engagement and make violent outburst inevitable.
(Greg Lukainoff is president and CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at NYU Stern. "The Coddling of the American Mind" The Atlantic. 9/15.

Lukianoff and Haidt

Burns defines magnification
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of the doubt?

Sub Point A

Only engaging in the public sphere allows for change- we need to learn the tools needed to engage others so we can manage to persuade them of our issues and opinions. If people don't know why they're problematic, then calling them problematic does nothing but emblazon them to do whatever they need.

Foucault : : Foucault, Michel ~French post-structuralist~. "Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations." In Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Ed. Paul Rabinow. 1 Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. The New Press. 1998.

It is a
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community of action.

Sub Point B

Causes spillover to the real world- outside of college is the real world- we need skills to deal with other people- creating an isolated space does nothing. Trump election proves uniqueness for my side- if we don't actually convince people our issues matter nothing will ever change for the better. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (Greg Lukainoff is president and CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at NYU Stern. "The Coddling of the American Mind" The Atlantic. 9/15.
Lukianoff and Haidt 2

Attempts to shield
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serve that goal.

Contention 2 is Intellectual Gain

Allowing for mental filtration through restricting constitutionally protected speech decreases intellectual gain from colleges and universities.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (Greg Lukianoff is the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at the NYU-Stern School of Business), "The Coddling of the American Mind", The Atlantic, 09/2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
 Lukianoff and Haidt 3
As Burns defines it, mental filtering is "
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not make them change their behavior and only drives them to the polls: 

Contention 3 is Political Growth

Restricting constitutionally protected speech damages students outside the campus and decreases political growth.

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (Greg Lukianoff is the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at the NYU-Stern School of Business), "The Coddling of the American Mind", The Atlantic, 09/2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Lukianoff and Haidt 4
Attempts to shield students from words, ideas, and
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, universities would help fortify the faculty against student requests for such warnings.

Politics and technology exist together and grow together.

~"TECHNOLOGY AS POLITICS" Tsekeris, Charalambos 07 graduated from Brunel University (2000) and earned his doctoral degree in Sociology from Athens Panteion University (2006). He is a member of the Greek scientific group Intellectum and a researcher on the complex relationships between technoscience, culture and politics.~
Tsekeris 07
Technology is a highly contentious concept. Of course, theorizing technology
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that people will never change we never reach out, then they never change 

Underview: Fighting Oppression

The Affirmative's free speech the most important tool in the fight against oppression, links back to framework and Role of the Ballot.

• • (American Civil Liberties Union), "Hate Speech on Campus," 2016.  
    ACLU 16
    Many universities, under pressure to respond to the concerns of those who are the
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    to all subject matter.
    And the Affirmative will garner significant educational benefits

Empirically, free speech has worked to improve stability of students by fueling graduation and opening discussions on societal issues that spark tangible solutions

SRA 13 Students Rising Above, 1-22-2013, "Breaking the Cycle of Poverty Through Education and Job Training," Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/students-rising-above/breaking-the-cycle-of-poverty_b_2521930.html**
Since it was Founded 15 years ago, Students Rising Above has consistently demonstrated that
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, but it's critical for low esteemed students on mental health and education.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Sarah Grant | Judge: Clint Jones

I affirm the resolution and value morality because ought implies a moral obligation.

Part One: The Temporal Subject

Notions of normativity and laws constantly shift through time. All decisions are made with the knowledge that time will inevitably change them.

Hagglund 1
Martin Hagglund. The Necessity of Discrimination Disjoining Derrida and Levinas. Project Muse. Diacritics 34.1:40-71. 

Once again, it is
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what has been prescribed

Every decision in the Negative world inevitably excludes the perspectives of others and is haunted by those specters of exclusion. We must look toward the Affirmative to reshape this faulty discourse.

Hagglund 2

In effect, every attempt
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will call lesser violence

Laws must continually undergo changes to take into account the specters that they have excluded
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precisely because ethical norms can be challenged that the Affirmative will solve. 

The Affirmative's concept of ethics is the only way to recognize these excluded beings and create meaningful political change. It is precisely because justice and ethics can open to interpretation that it can be changed to always be better. This means that any structural violence frameworks collapse to mine because only re-orienting ethics can have hope for new inclusion.

Hagglund 3

Hence, Derrida argues that
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attacks or conflicting demands

Thus, the standard is embracing transformative ethics.  This means recognizing that justice and concepts that are built off it are merely temporal and have no universal grounding. We must recognize that ethics are fluid, rhizomatic, and constantly changing- and that entails there is no true ethic but only continuously changing codes of conduct.  Therefore, my burden is just to prove that free speech is a tool that allows for the expression of fluidity in the application of the law and justice.

Part Two: Reorientation

Asserting you are right without defending your opinion makes dialogue impossible. It creates an Us-Them dichotomy which makes practical solutions inaccessible.

Michel ~French post-structuralist~. "Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations." In Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Ed. Paul Rabinow. 1 Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. The New Press. 1998
Foucault 1

The polemicist, on the other
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and either surrenders or disappears.

Empirically true- College trends against opposing viewpoints deter meaningful engagement and make a polarized society inevitable.

 
(Greg Lukainoff is president and CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at NYU Stern. "The Coddling of the American Mind" The Atlantic. 9/15.
Lukianoff and Haidt 1

Burns defines magnification as
AND
the benefit of the doubt

Only engaging in the public sphere allows for change- we need to learn the tools needed to engage others so we can manage to persuade them of our issues and opinions. If people don't know why they're problematic, then calling them problematic does nothing but emblazon them to do whatever they need.

Foucault, Michel ~French post-structuralist~. "Polemics, Politics, and Problematizations." In Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984. Ed. Paul Rabinow. 1 Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth. The New Press. 1998
Foucault 2

It is a question, then
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form a community of action.

Causes spillover to the real world- outside of college is the real world- we need skills to deal with other people- creating an isolated space does nothing. Trump election proves uniqueness for my side- if we don't actually convince people our issues matter nothing will ever change for the better.

 Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (Greg Lukainoff is president and CEO of Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at NYU Stern. "The Coddling of the American Mind" The Atlantic. 9/15.
Lukianoff and Haidt 2

Attempts to shield students
AND
further serve that goal.

Empirically true- and controls the internal link to any oppression arguments-only discourse allows individuals to challenge norms.

 
2k1 (Nicholas, Ph.D. from the University of California, lecturer in Political Science @ University of California, “(Re)Turning Derrida to Heidegger: Being-with-Others as Primordial Politics”, Polity, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Spring, 2001), pp. 455-477, Palgrave Macmillan Journals Stable,
Dungey 1

The desire for
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designed to separate and isolate.

And we need to engage in institutions- withdrawal allows for oppression and causes no change- this means the Affirmative is key

Chantal, Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, "The Importance of Engaging the State," What is Radical Politics Today? October 2009, pgs. 233-237~
Mouffe 1

In both Hardt and Negri,
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the nature of radical politics.

In Public Colleges and Universities, speech codes and other types of mental filtration decrease intellectual gain and hinder the ability to transform our morality and ethics to educate ourselves and include others in that education

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (Greg Lukianoff is the president and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley professor of ethical leadership at the NYU-Stern School of Business), "The Coddling of the American Mind", The Atlantic, 09/2015, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Lukianoff and Haidt 3

As Burns defines it,
AND
only drives them to the polls

Tournament: Harambe Round Robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mikal Kurin | Judge: Jeezus Kriste
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