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Tournament: havard | Round: 7 | Opponent: me | Judge: yeet
We are in an age of organized forgetting; elites erase critical reflection on painful history to protect narratives that cause racial antagonism and fragment class movements. Evans and Giroux 16:
Brad Evans (senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol in England) interviews Henry Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy), “The Violence of Forgetting” The New York Times. June 20, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html?_r=1 SF

Unfortunately...we live military mindsets?

Knowledge is central to power. Public education’s content and accessibility shapes the spheres of political agency. Critical public education is a necessary step towards genuine democratic discourse. Evans and Giroux 2:

I begin with...and ethical commitments.

Critical pedagogy demands unsettling education. Motivation for action comes from reflecting on the history of violence. Academia’s privilege is to drown out scary discourse but many simply can’t. Evans and Giroux 3:
Brad Evans (senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Bristol in England) interviews Henry Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy), “The Violence of Forgetting” The New York Times. June 20, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/opinion/the-violence-of-forgetting.html?_r=1 SF

There is a...and worldly one. 

The judge implicitly has some educative value because we assume they can properly resolve the round, therefore as a public intellectual you should vote for the debater who best challenges the grammar of neoliberalism. Critical pedagogy must analyze political language as a tool to regulate radical thought. Giroux 11:
Henry Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy), “Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals”, Truthout. 11/21/11. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/5046:occupy-colleges-now~-~-students-as-the-new-public-intellectuals
Finding our way...and political urgency.

Part 2 is the History Lesson
Trump’s election was the biggest liberal jaw-dropper since Sarah Palin, but why the surprise? Did we really forget the past 50 years that fast? Edsall 16:
Thomas B. Edsall (Tom Edsall has been teaching political journalism at Columbia University since 2006. His column on strategic and demographic trends in American politics appears every Thursday. He has been a weekly contributor to The Times online Opinion Pages since 2011.), “The Not-So-Silent White Majority” The New York Times. Nov 17, 2016. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/17/opinion/the-not-so-silent-white-majority.html?_r=0 SF

Between Richard Nixon’s ... Trump Republicans of 2016.

This election stumped top universities because liberal academia refused the existence of desperate, poor white voters – the aff is discourse to undermine the false narratives that sustain lower-class racism. Rivera 16:
Rafael Rivera (EC student at Harvard Business School, worked for McKinsey and Co in Mexico city, Mumbai, and Dubai, and for the World Bank in Cambodia), “The ‘Silent Majority’ And The Triumph of Donald Trump” The Huffington Post. Nov 10, 2016. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-harbus/the-silent-majority-and-t_b_12901262.html SF

Against all odds ... forced to listen.

Nixon’s Silent Majority evolved and their new enemy is academia – the white middle class will remain “ignorant and racist” until liberal academia includes their voices. Seaford 16:
Artemis Seaford (J.D./Ph.D. student in Political Science at Stanford University), “Liberal Academia in Donald Trump’s World” The American Interest. 11/11/16. http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/11/liberal-academia-in-donald-trumps-world/ SF
Once we process ... ever-elusive world.

Therefore we affirm the resolution as a merger of social groups into a site of free, critical examination. Only wholly inclusive education can change hegemonic narratives that sustain social hierarchy and establish genuine democracy. Coles 14:
Tait Coles (vice principal at Dixons City Academy in Bradford, published author), “Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo” The Guardian. Feb 25, 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/feb/25/critical-pedagogy-schools-students-challenge SF
Students need the... purpose of education.