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janfeb - eco pess K
Tournament: sdfds | Round: 5 | Opponent: dffsd | Judge: ddsf Climate change sets the new rules for life on Earth and humans have no future in it. The capitalist modern way of life is anthropocentric logic that justifies unsustainable draining of the nonhuman world. Ignorance of climate change makes us feel safe, but only accelerates human extinction and biospheric collapse. Cohen 12: Tom Cohen (Professor of Literary, Cultural, and Media Studies at University of Albany), “Murmurations—“Climate Change” and the Defacement of Theory”, Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change, Vol. 1. SF Warnings regarding the...the twenty-first
The campaign of climate denial in universities is a crime against the world to breed apathy. Denialism hides truth so people can’t voice informed speech on climate change – turns case. Torcello 14 bracketed for clarity: Lawrence Torcello (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology), “Is misinformation about the climate criminally negligent?” The Conversation. March 13, 2014. https://theconversation.com/is-misinformation-about-the-climate-criminally-negligent-23111 SF We have good...their libertarian ideology.
The apocalypse is a question of recognition. Accepting climate change recognizes humans as co-producers of nature, which shifts political obligation from regulating nature to the possibility of new environment. Swyngedouw 13: Erik Swyngedouw (Professor of Geography at the School of Environment and Development at University of Manchester Lewis), “Apocalypse Now! Fear and Doomsday Pleasures,” Symposium on Apocalypse. Published 02/06/2013. SF Against this cynical...on the view
The alternative is to die gracefully. It’s apocalypse now; we can lie to ourselves or find value by seeing ourselves as a changing unit in a large system of natural value. This requires rejecting their humanist appeals. The dead cannot speak. Scranton 13: Roy Scranton (Served in the United States Army from 2002 to 2006. He is a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton University, and co-editor of “Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War.” He has written for The New York Times, Boston Review, Theory and Event and recently completed a novel about the Iraq War), “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene”; November 10, 2013; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?_r=0 SF
The advent...how to die.
The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who provides the best method to reframe humanities relationship to nature. The imminence of the anthropocene makes this our foremost educational responsibility. Ecological Thoughtprint 11: Ecological Thoughtprint (website for educators that promote sustainability education and teach ecological epistemology) “Dualism doesn’t make sense” December 4, 2011. https://ecologicalthoughtprint.org/2011/12/04/dualism-doesnt-make-sense/ SF Blurring the boundary.. These are the culture.
2/20/17
janfeb- ILaw DA
Tournament: havard | Round: 4 | Opponent: harvard | Judge: me International law banned hate speech Matsuda 89 Mari J. Matsuda (Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, the William S. Richardson School of Law), "Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story," Michigan Law Review, 1989 The international community... of eliminating discrimination.
Compliance with ILaw is key to preventing global disaster- US compliance with ILaw shapes global ILaw compliance IEER 02 Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy. Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties. May 2002. http:www.ieer.org/reports/treaties/execsumm.pdf The evolution of ...out of compliance.
Internal Link (Human Rights) US adherence to international law concerning hate speech is key to credibility in international human rights Cohen 15 Tanya Cohen, "It’s Time To Bring The Hammer Down On Hate Speech In The U.S." Thought Catalog, Recent scandals involving ... the world is.
Improving human rights and preventing violations helps billions materially facing oppression across the globe. CFR 13 - Council on Foreign Relations: June 19, 2013 (“The Global Human Rights Regime” From the multimedia Global Governance Monitor of the International Institutions and Global Governance program Available at http://www.cfr.org/human-rihts/global-human-rights-regime/p27450#p1 Although the concept...constitutions and statutes.
2/20/17
janfeb- baudy k
Tournament: Havard | Round: 8 | Opponent: idk | Judge: yeet The ideology of capital and symbolic economy predetermine legitimate speech through powerful actor’s ability to project hegemonic speech without possibility of response. This is the death of communication; free speech is never real within a system of capital. Baudrillard 81: Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 169-170. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF The mass media... the social process.
Their critique and reformation of the aesthetic politics of dress are only symptomatic of capital’s commodification of beauty through arbitrary social norms that demand consumption and destroy autonomy. Even if the 1AC changes our norms, the opportunity to dress with dignity is a privileged ideal defined by capital – this kills free speech and turns their ballot claims. Baudrillard 81: Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 31-32. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF
The echo of... of their possessor.
The alternative is the radical nihilistic challenge of my speech act. Our blind adherence to fiat and poor political representation as a community has drained debate of meaning. There is no connection between what we do here and the political; only the refusal to participate in the fiat game can bring us closer to meaning. Baudrillard in 81: Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation.” Published 1984, in English in 1994. I am a nihilist... where seduction begins.
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The images of suffering they present are like a drug, used by the media and politicians to advance their ends. They present these images to you in exchange for the ballot for their own moralistic satisfaction, but this constant search for new catastrophes to “solve” can only end in domination and violence. Baudrillard in 94 Jean Baudrillard (philosopher of symbolic swag), “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71. 1994.
We have long ... as a species.
2/20/17
janfeb- hate speech DA
Tournament: harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: havrard | Judge: me On campus hate speech and crimes is decreasing in the squo—that means current restrictions are working and the aff is unnecessary at best Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16 A recent report... offenses and murder.
Hate speech does real violence to people of color and necessarily locks in relationships of domination. Delgado and Stefacic ‘09 Richard Delgado - University Professor, Seattle University School of Law; J.D., 1974, University of California, Berkeley. Jean Stefancic – Research Professor, Seattle University School of Law; M.A., 1989, University of San Francisco. “FOUR OBSERVATIONS ABOUT HATE SPEECH.” WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW. 2009. http://wakeforestlawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Delgado_LawReview_01.09.pdf it is impossible...of free expression.
silencing people is inevitable but harassment creates an even greater chilling effect in both students and faculty Marcus 2 Kenneth L. Marcus, Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Chair in Equality and Justice in America, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, “Higher Education, Harassment, and First Amendment Opportunism,” 16 Wm. and Mary Bill Rts. J. 1025 (2008), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol16/iss4/5 JW Unavoidably, antidiscrimination law .. suppress academic freedom.
The Constitution serves a social role by shaping the way we conceive of proper life through written law. Their legal approach limits the political imaginary, putting precedence over the struggle of the commons. Ollman 04: Bertell Ollman (professor of politics at NYU; received his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1967; has taught at the University of the West Indies and been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Columbia Universities; Since 1970, he has given about 250 lectures on different aspects of Marxist theory in a dozen countries) What still needs …never be understood.
The Constitution’s writing was undemocratic and made for economic elites – its emphasis on self-ownership as the basis of rights inscribes neoliberalism. Beard 13: Charles Beard (Associate professor of politics at Columbia University), “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States”. 1913. http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beard_An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Consti.pdf SF The movement for ..in their scope.
The alternative is the use of the commons as the social source of value. Carroll 10: William Carroll (Founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program at the University of Victoria). “Crisis, movements, counter-hegemony: in search of the new.” Published November 2010. Accessed 12/25/14. http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Interface-2-2-pp.168-198-Carroll.pdf SF MST exemplifies a ..to decommodify labour.
Neoliberalism’s logic is reified in educational spaces; we must reclaim education so students can imagine radical solutions. Thus, the role of the ballot, as an academic pedestal, is to vote for whoever best interrogates neoliberalism. Giroux 15: Henry A. 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) If neoliberal others… locally and globally.
1/27/17
janfeb- trump politics DA
Tournament: haravrd | Round: 2 | Opponent: havard | Judge: me A. Trump is pushing protectionism and tarrifs right now- Republicans are unwilling to support Steinhaur Dec 5, Jennifer, House G.O.P. Signals Break With Trump Over Tariff Threat, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/house-republicans-trade-trump.html WASHINGTON — House Republican.. markets and trade.”
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Implementing the aff is the vindication that the Trump administration needs. He’s losing pol-cap now after implementing a muslim ban and nominating a deeply unpopular cabinet. Aff lets him regain steam since he railed against “political correctness” during the campaign trail. Weigel 16 Moira Weigel, writer and academic, “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy,” The Guardian, November 30, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/30/political-correctness-how-the-right-invented-phantom-enemy-donald-trump JW Three weeks ago,.. ever an accusation. 2. Trump’s retaliation against the Berkeley protests means he gets credit for the implementation of the aff. It proves he can beat even the most liberal institutions. Brown and Mangan 17 Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan, “Trump Can’t Cut Off Berkeley’s Funds by Himself. His Threat Still Raised Alarm,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 3, 2017, http://www.chronicle.com/article/Trump-Can-t-Cut-Off/239100?cid=trend_right. JW Back in October... that was threatening."
The aff wins over the Ways and Means committee—they see it as bipartisan and it’s a top priority Jagoda 16 NAOMI JAGODA , 3-2-2016, "House Republican concerned about colleges stifling students' speech,” The chairman of ... Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.).
The plan is popular with Congressional Republicans that Trump needs to win over to his side McGrady 16 Michael McGrady, CU Colorado Springs, “House Republicans to college students: Have you been censored? Let us know. Email us!” The College Fix, March 4, 2016, http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26499/ JW House Republicans have... the public place?” 2. Winners win: Presidential boldness creates a steamroll effect Green 10 David Michael Green, professor of political science at Hofstra University, “The Do-Nothing 44th President,” OpEd News, June 11, 2010, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html JW Moreover, there is... what they did.
D. New tarrifs doom millions and millions to extreme poverty. They also have a spillover effect, multiplying the impact. Beauchamp 16, Zach, Apr 5, 2016, If you're poor in another country, this is the scariest thing Bernie Sanders has said http://www.vox.com/2016/3/1/11139718/bernie-sanders-trade-global-poverty Free trade is... would be astronomical.
2/20/17
janfeb- util nc
Tournament: haravrd | Round: 3 | Opponent: harvard | Judge: me The standard is util. My framework defines ought as util – two warrants:
The free dictionary defines ought as used to indicate desirability http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ought 2. Ought implies an ends based calculus. Harris: But this notion... human well-being.
Also, util is substantively true:
Psychological evidence proves we don’t identify with our future selves. Continuous personal identity doesn’t exist. Alisa Opar (articles editor at Audubon magazine; cites Hal Hershfield, an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business; and Emily Pronin, a psychologist at Princeton) “Why We Procrastinate” Nautilus January 2014 “The British philosopher... might be you.” This means util is the only coherent moral theory. A. Since a there is not continuous persons, distribution of goods among people is irrelevant, so we just maximize benefits among people. B. It is impossible to violate a constraint since identity is in constant flux. Anything such as a promise a made a year ago is no long my promise, etc. 2. Public policy necessitates tradeoffs—that means util. Gary Woller BYU Prof., “An Overview by Gary Woller”, A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10 “Moreover, virtually all...making it worse.” A. Takes out util indicts—governments already use it in the squo, so calc indicts are empirically denied. B. Any theory based in constraints is useless. Government action inevitably violates some principle, so util is most plausible. C. Util is comparatively better to any other ethical theory—non-consequentialist theories paralyze government action which is always worse than a risk of not being able to use util. 3. No act/omission for governments—constraint based theories collapse to util. Sunstein and Vermule 05 (Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermuele, “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs,” Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 85 (March 2005), p. 17.) In our view... violations require aggregation.
The aff defends that colleges have to defend any free speech in all instances should be allowed, which means if one instance exists such that it would be more utilitarian to deny the right, we should. 2. Util means we can never have rights. HEARD 97: Heard, Andrew. “THE CHALLENGES OF UTILITARIANISM AND RELATIVISM” Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/417/util.html At one level... to be absolute. 3. Util proves permissibility of the resolution. To clarify it’s still a true theory, it just proves that actions have equal value:
The universe is infinite. Bostrom 11 Nick Bostrom (Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School Director, Future of Humanity Institute Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology University of Oxford) “Infinite Ethics” Analysis and Metaphysics, Vol. 10 (2011): pp. 9-59 In the standard... of good and bad.
2. Every action causes other events which themselves have consequences- that means every action has an infinite amount of consequences so one better consequence doesn’t make an action obligatory. 3. None-such problem—each type of pleasure—the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure of eating ice cream—is qualitatively different, so there’s no way to quantify and compare pleasures under consequentialism.
