Dulles Wadhwani Aff
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JF - ACTournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Freedom of speech ... today in academia. Current regulations more often then not, disproportionately affect black students, with their protest being shut down or being punished for protesting. Eastern Michigan University provides a clear example of this. Black Students at Eastern Michigan University held a peaceful protest in the form of a sit-in at their STUDENT CENTER to symbolically challenge racism on campus and are being punished for it. Eastern Michigan University has issued ... student code violations. After numerous incidences of racial slurs being spray-painted on campus in different places, black students held sit-ins that made demands for the university to be more proactive in protecting black students. The university response however, was to punish black students. The first set ... the letter said. Current understanding of constitutionally protected speech is a hypocrisy that often protects white students enactment of racial violence, while simultaneously punishing black students. Failure to act normalizes racism and violence. What’s ironic is ... the costume itself. This is premised on the myth of the black criminal that characterizes black people as always being more violent. The expected response from them is one of violence, so any action taken is perceived as such. When white people can justify their hate speech by calling those offended “oversensitive,” it cements in an order that can justify any sacrifice for the continuance of their dominance. Black men also ... up white students. Thus, I advocate that public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech. We have been ... who “we” are. The ROB is to vote for the debater who best deconstructs systems of white supremacy within public colleges and universities– vote for who best includes voices and people who are historically excluded. If we are ... our own selves. This spills over to educational systems as well since Hate speech isn’t constitutionally protected. “Biting the bullet” on free speech issues and including it can only happen from a position of privilege – the effects of racial insults directly contradict with the purpose and function of the first amendment, yet we still want to keep it Face-to-face racial insults, ... injure the victim. The first amendment is based on a form of black sacrifice – their protests are what created precedents to establish it and now its being used against them. The double standard in American justice systems is so clear. Paradoxically, the disruption ...in our culture. Framing those who fight against hate speech as the “new orthodoxy” is exactly the problem. We point out how it isn’t free speech for all yet absolutists still believe its equal – this is why the aff is uniquely key to reframe the debate. Now the defenders ... of the ideology of racism. Constitutionally protected speech should work to promote a constitutional community that does not justify degradation and other forms of violence. Constitutionally protected speech cannot exist without freedom from injury in the first place. What is ultimately ... in the fields. | 12/16/16 |
JF - AC 2Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Exposing the inhumanity of whiteness is key to showing the limits of the European man category and creating a new conception of man, starting with black humanity – we don’t care about convincing white people. The ROJ is to be the anti-ethical educator. Anti-ethics; the ... an endarkening path towards a new humanity. The ROB is to vote for the debater who best deconstructs systems of white supremacy within public colleges and universities. Frame the debate as a question of competing survival strategies – minorities can choose to disidentify and embrace alternate liberation strategies Some minority students willingly ... they¶ secure safety in violent circumstances. Part 2 is the Status Quo ON SATURDAY, THE Women’s March ... easier for employers to replace striking workers. Anti-protest laws are created to be moving targets – they’re excuses for government control over who gets to speak where In post-Occupy America, it’s ... to be a permanent part of the political landscape. College campuses are key – they’re the place where activism begins – sustenance of the movement is key Establishing ways to meet ... build the Republican-dominated government of today. Even in a world of speech restrictions, do not assume white people will stop hate speech. Do not place hope for change in those who have historically acted racist - white people will continue hate speech in both public and private spheres Traditionally we have taken ... judgment refusing to write morality onto immoral entities. Plan Text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any speech by removing all regulations on protests. Advantage 1 is Rage Imagining violence against the white man disrupts standard narratives of violence that regulate life and creates a productive fear of retaliation. “What you think would happen if every time they kill a black boy, then we kill a cop?” So, what if we imagine ... your control over how I am represented. Rage empowering, key to coalitions – giving up rage is affirming status quo black victimization Confronting my rage, witnessing ... redemptive struggle possible. Advantage 2 is Racial Discourse Safe spaces for dialogues of race are color-blind – race dialogue will definitionally make white people feel uncomfortable – a humanizing form of violence is key to disrupting dominant regimes and shifting knowledge creation Part of color-blindness is to ... and violence as educative | 2/19/17 |
ND - Miners Canary ACTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Part 1 is the Miner’s Canary Authors Guinier and Torres in 02 use this analogy to show how those racially marginalized are situated in society. Race, for us, ... of social policy. Just like the canary is sacrificed for the benefit of the miner, victims of police brutality are sacrificed for the police. Their very existence is for the use of the miner. Qualified immunity is the mine – it’s the vehicle for brutality to sustain itself. It gives the miner the purpose and ability to keep taking the canary down with them. It justifies why the number of victims is increasing – because it stops crime; because it keeps us safe; because they were suspicious; because they needed to die. Because Michael Brown, Sandra Bland, Treyvon Martin, Eric Gardner, Alton Sterling and so many more needed to die. When there is ... Court changes course? QI as it currently exist works as a tool designed to allow officers to have discretion, leaving in place a mining system that allows for bodies to become a sacrifice, in turn allowing officers off the hook. With respect to ... acts of violence. Thus the 1AC defends that In the world of the 1AC, police officers would have to go to trial to determine the constitutionality of their actions – this way the police don’t have power-over individuals in society, but power-with society – they have to live up to their actions and answer back to why they did it. Exposing their actions to scrutiny of the people they claim to protect creates a new power relation between them and individuals within that society. This exposes power-over and use a counter-narrative of power-with to question police accountability – collective acts of resistance have value independent of outcomes In sum, modernists, ... or postmodernist views. Part 2 is the Method ROJ – view the debate from the lens of marginalized communities. Inside out approach on race is key – debate is an intermediate space An individual in ... as launching pads. The ROB is to vote for the debater who has the best methodology to help marginalized communities. The aff embraces magical realism as a method to open up boundaries and provide the foundation for radically different meanings through a change in context But while religious ... civil rights paradigm. The bottom-up solution of the aff prevents zero-sum power strategies utilized by elities to keep their power By focusing on ... access and accountability. Students need to understand nuances – how race is structured in the first place, in order to have a chance of change or survival To acquire this ... and foreign engagements. Need to address institutional conditions before we can change the racial hierarchy – multi-racial coalitions good Political race suggests ... and transformative response. Part 3 is Political Race Consciousness Race is a political construction – people in society are raced – the ideological position is imposed onto them We use the ... camouflages those hierarchies. | 11/20/16 |
SO - Environmental Racism ACTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: | Judge: Black communities often do not benefit from the production of nuclear power, and if they do only in the construction of the plant itself. However, they are most likely to suffer the most adverse effects nuclear power in regards to sickness and death. Black communities are disproportionately effected from the production of nuclear power, receiving the harms from emissions such as cancer. Yet, communities are forced into a dualism where power plants are able to maintain and leverage power against those same communities. This duality keeps black communities at the hands of power plant corporations. Only action from elsewhere can force plants to change. The Not In My Back Yard Syndrome demonstrates that race plays a larger structuring system than cap. Thus the Plan Text: The United States federal government ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. Black bodies are fungible to us – we energize our lives while not noticing the horrible effects of nuclear power from the urban communities most of their plants inhabit. It is try or die for the affirmative – effects on actual people that are always ignored because they are the out-group – leads to the idea of nuclear power being more important than their lives because it is productive or good for the rest of the environment. These implicit policies reflect the permanence of race as a structuring force in the United States. Racial identity serves as a structuring tool and a form of social practice shaping the privileged status that dictates what communities get protected. This stems from what DuBois calls a veil of double consciousness and provides a framework for understanding how policies shape and code particular locations. It is the fundamental structuring force by which race and racism can be analyzed. Thus the Role of the Ballot is to vote for the debater who best negotiates the dialectics of the veil of double consciousness. Our ban on nuclear production stems from a critical analysis of how environmental policies formulate a new racism that is the basis for the modern formulation of the veil. Underview One- Renewables are competitive now Err aff:
(analytic) Two- paradigm shift in energy consumption means renewable are more likely to be used than fossil fuels. Err Aff:
Three- no lag time and certain areas are already switching. California proves. 4) Reactors can’t solve energy crisis or global warming- means your DA’s are nonunique. Err aff history proves that reactor proposals don’t go through and are highly inefficient at combating problems. Smith, | 9/18/16 |
SO - Security ACTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Framing The central political task … to critical security studies. We should frame the question of nuclear power in terms of racialized harm and otherization. Refusing accommodation with values of the security state is a precondition for preventing racialized hierarchy. Gott 5 Anti-subordinationist principles … racialization of "security threats." In their theoretical constructs, … in order to assess unipolarity accurately” (Brooks and Wohlforth, 2002: 30). Securitization The shift from defense to preemption represents a paranoid, securitized mindset of the US – It’s not a question of what we do, it’s a question of what we give ourselves to option to do. Vans Munster 04 Agamben’s rendering of sovereign power … process of constituting global American sovereignty. Fear of apocalypse causes endless violence and allows the state to arm itself to the teeth in the name of security. Coviello 2K Perhaps. But to claim that American culture … initiative that can scarcely be done without. Nuclear weapons are justified by violent pre-emption – specifically it’s seen as a way to keep “rogue” states in line – empirically proven. Gerson 10 The third rationale is preemption—… through a preemptive strike might be feasible. Speech acts that legitimize security create the only scenario for extinction. – the aff’s public declaration is the only relevant thing. Collins 02 The Real Effects of Language As any … the physical effects of violence. Plan Plan Text: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power for nuclear weapons. To clarify, nuclear weapons are defined as “a bomb or missile that uses nuclear energy to cause an explosion” by the first definition on Google. Policy solutions key to resolve securitization. McGuire 13 According to the Copenhagen School, … of legitimacy and legal authority.”34 The 1AC is a shift away from a pre-emptive, securitizing mindset to a question of positive peace. Bilgin 03 Galtung underlined the futility … their problems into an East–West framework. Following Agamben, this paper … terrorism to become itself terroristic.’’35 There is no such thing as predictability in IR – simple singular causation is reliable but aggregating multiple causes is epistemologically flawed – policy makers are logical, your disad authors ignore too many factors in an attempt to produce cheap, easy scholarship. Lebow 15 Alternate worlds highlight the … for forecasts, never for predictions. Underview Countries advocating a legally … weapon state parties to the NPT. | 9/18/16 |
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