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Recognizing that the epistemology of capitalism manipulates our understanding of policy is a pre-condition to evaluating the resolution through moral fameworks. Marsh 95,

Marsh 95- Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University (James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 331-2)
Is it reasonable, therefore, even to talk about the possibility of a socialism
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move on. Recent events in eastern Europe only confirm such a judgment.
Neoliberalism structures academic freedom in the status quo. It sets limits on what is acceptable behavior to quell dissent and any facult truly radical enough to challenge corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat. Chatterjee and Maira 14

Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. "The Imperial University: race, war, and the nation-state." The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50.
Our geopolitical positions—of our immediate workplaces as well as trans- national work
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of labor and survival within the U.S. university system.11
Free speech is an illusion propagated by corporatists – their model of rights assumes an equal playing field analogous to free market economists view of capital. The promotion of free speech perpetuates the idea that speech is a commodity, which strengthens neoliberalism's hold on the academy. Brown 15

Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.
At times, kennedy raises the pitch in Citizens United to depict limits on corporate
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warring forces parallel to those of government and capital in a neoliberal economy.
This turns the case – the commodification of speech reflects the capitalist illusion of freedom. It makes speech meaningless and kills value to life. Smith '14

R.C. Smith April 24, 2014 "POWER, CAPITAL and THE RISE OF THE MASS SURVEILLANCE STATE: ON THE ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY, ETHICS, DISENCHANTMENT and CRITICAL THEORY" Heathwood Institute and Press http://www.heathwoodpress.com/power-capital-the-rise-of-the-mass-surveillance-state-on-the-absence-of-democracy-ethics-disenchantment-critical-theory/ JJN from file
One pressing issue, moreover, is that majority of the popular movements that have
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which produces and reproduces the epistemic context of its own validity.13
The ballot represents a choice between competing visions of social change – elevating the aff above the individual endorsement of the aff debater is false. The debate round represents competing strategies for social change: the question is not who does the alt or plan, but of a world without capitalism vs. the affirmative. Agency questions are irrelevant—we don't have to win the alternative spills over, just that rejection in this round is comparatively better than the aff—any other evaluation makes no sense because the judge isn't in a position to do the aff either. Critiquing assumptions is the best way to leverage change.

Reinsborough, 03 (Organizer, Rainforest Action Network and Wake Up America Campaign) 03 (Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, August 2003, Volume 1, Issue 2, Patrick).
Direct action— actions that either symbolically or directly shift power relations— is an
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find the rumors that start revolutions and ask the questions that topple empires.
Our critique independently outweighs the case -  neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause to go unquestioned. Farbod 15

 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2)
Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises
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enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return.

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A. Interpretation: Debaters should disclose full tags and cites for their cases on the case list wiki on
wiki.debatecoaches.org or via email, facebook, or other means of communication.

B. Violation: My opponent hasn’t disclosed.

C. Standards:

1. Reciprocity: This creates inequity in access to information, as tags and cites for my case have been
   available on the wiki since round two, whereas information about my opponent’s have not. We should
   encourage reciprocal access to information, since it makes for the most in depth and substantive
   debate. Reciprocity is axiomatically key to fairness because it ensures any advantage gained by one
   side trades off with an equivalent advantage to the other.

2. Strat Skew: This completely destroys my strategy as now one debater has the ability to full be aware of
my strategy going in this round, while I don’t. This is a clear unequal and unfair strategy skew to the
disclosed debater. Strategy Skew is key to fairness since my opponent will always be ahead one step
ahead in each speech.

3. Evidence Ethics: Disclosure of arguments allows me to check the validity of my opponent’s evidence
and make sure that they are properly citing from the source. There is not enough time in the round to
both check online whether your opponent’s evidence is true and not miscut, understand their case,
respond to their case, AND plan out a strategy for the next speech.

D. Voters:

Fairness is a voter because debate is a competition and requires an equal opportunity to win the round. Also,
it’s key to the role of the ballot b/c you can’t objectively decide the winner of the round unless both debaters
have an equal chance to win.

Evidence Ethics is a voter b/c as debaters in an educational activity we have a duty to maintain the integrity of
our work, as well as develop good research skills.

Theory comes before substance because it determines the rules of the game, and we can’t play the game
without knowing the rules.

Competing Interpretations because reasonability creates a race to the bottom and it’s arbitrary because
there’s no brightline and invites judge intervention.
Dropping the debater allows the community to set beneficial norms because strategies that are successful are
copied and those that aren’t are abandoned – only dropping the debater sends a message strong enough to
reflect this.

No RVIs: RVI’s are unreciprocal b/c I have to win a full shell to win, whereas they can either or win on I meets
or a counter-interp, giving them a 2:1 advantage. Outweighs b/c it’s easier to play defense on theory than to
win a legitimate abuse story.

Tournament: XX | Round: 1 | Opponent: XX | Judge: XX
Current protections against hate speech are working – on campus harassment is decreasing nationally now.  
Sutton 16 Halley Sutton, Report shows crime on campus down across the country, Campus Security Report 13.4 (2016), 9/9/16,http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/casr.30185/full LADI
A recent report released by the National Center for Education Statistics found an overall decrease
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lower than in 2001 for every category except forcible sex offenses and murder.
Removing restrictions on free speech allows hate speech – hate speech IS free speech
Volokh 15 Eugene Volokh,No, There’s No “hate Speech” Exception to the First Amendment, The Washington Post, 5/7/15, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.05cfdd01dea4 LADI
I keep hearing about a supposed “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment
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with any established definition of “hate speech” that I know of.)
Hate speech leads to a genocidal increase in crimes against marginalized groups.  
Greenblatt 15 Jonathan Greenblatt, When Hateful Speech Leads to Hate Crimes: Taking Bigotry Out of the Immigration Debate, Huffington Post, 8/21/15, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-greenblatt/when-hateful-speech-leads_b_8022966.html LADI
When police arrived at the scene in Boston, they found a Latino man shaking
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are working with a broad coalition of partners to get the ball rolling.
Empirically supported that hate speech desensitizes society to atrocities, justifying hate crimes and further acts of discrimination
Tsesis 2000 (Tsesis, Alexander. "The Empirical Shortcomings Of First Amendment Jurisprudence: An Historical Perspective On The Power." 40 SANTA CLARA L. REV. 729. 2000. Web. December 07, 2016. http://lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1309andcontext=facpubs.)
The proliferation of hate material over the Internet is only partially responsible for recent hate
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lawless actions, but under current First Amendment jurisprudence its transmission was not punishable

Tournament: Sixth Annual Robert Garcia Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fremont VS | Judge:
The government is obligated to protect citizen interest. Goodin 95
Robert E. Goodin. Philosopher of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Applied Ethics. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 26-7
Utilitarianism is axiomatically true because value stems from experienced wellbeing. Harris 10
Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy.  The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.”
Nuclear power is key to the economy. NEI 16
NEI, 2016, the Nuclear Energy Institute is an organization dedicated to giving information about nuclear technology. "Nuclear Power Plants Benefit State and Local Economies," Nuclear Energy Institute, http://www.nei.org/Master-Document-Folder/Backgrounders/Fact-Sheets/Nuclear-Power-Plants-Contribute-Significantly-to-S
Subpoint A: Nuclear power substantially increases U.S. jobs. NEI 14
Nuclear Energy Institute, April 2014, the Nuclear Energy Institute is an organization dedicated to giving information about nuclear technology. “Nuclear Energy’s Economic Benefits — Current and Future,” Nuclear Energy Institute, http://www.nei.org/corporatesite/media/filefolder/policy/papers/jobs.pdf
Subpoint B: Nuclear production is key to the industry of many countries and produces electricity that supports the global economy.
Henríquez, 08
The Importance of Nuclear Energy in the Global Economy, By: Silverio Henríquez A. - PhD, ChE (Chemical/Environmental Engineering) Technical Expert. Accreditation/Certification Alternate Energy System, January 2008
Nuclear power plants will be replaced by fossil fuels, not renewables
Conca 16 James Conca, 5-16-2016, "Natural Gas," Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/05/16/natural-gas-is-replacing-nuclear-power-not-renewables/#2ec93cfc4abb
Coal plants pose greater health risks than nuclear plants
Hvistendahl 07 Mara Hvistendahl, 12-13-2007, "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste," Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ (lots of scientific details in the non-underlined portions in case you’re curious)
Coal exacerbates warming
TWC 14 (“Black as Coal”, http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Coal-Mining-Effects-on-the-Environment)
Warming would be catastrophic for our environment.
Roberts 13 (citing the World Bank Review’s compilation of climate studies)
(David, “If you aren’t alarmed about climate, you aren’t paying attention” http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/ January 10 mtc)
Warming outweighs and turns all of their impacts
Herzog 2016 - Citing a World Economic Forum Survey
Katie, "Surprise, surprise: Climate change is risky business", Jan 14, grist.org/climate-energy/surprise-surprise-climate-change-is-risky-business/?utm_source=syndicationandutm_medium=rssandutm_campaign=feedgrist

Tournament: XX | Round: 1 | Opponent: XX | Judge: XX
1NC Shell
The claim that free speech leads to democratic debate and social progress is a neoliberal myth – the AFF's faith in the free exchange of ideas displaces a focus on direct action and re-entrenches multiple forms of oppression.  Instead, the alternative is to reject the AFF's neoliberal framing of speech and direct pedagogy to focus on direct action against oppression.

Tillett-Saks 13 Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ LADI
In the wake of the Brown University shout-down of Ray Kelly, champion
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greater freedom. To the contrary, direct action has always proved necessary.
The AFF's notion of the marketplace of ideas is neoliberal rhetoric designed to strengthen corporate power.

Whatler 13 Stuart Whatley, Speak for Yourself: A Meditation on the Marketplace of Ideas, Los Angeles Review of Books, 10/4/13, https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/speak-for-yourself-a-meditation-on-the-marketplace-of-ideas/~~#! LADI
The very notion of a "marketplace of ideas" tracks exactly with neoliberalism's rising
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its great talents vigorously to the preservation of the system itself."
We have reached a tipping point – neoliberalism is no longer able to control its spiral into disaster.  Massive structural violence and extinction are inevitable without a fundamental rethinking of the current system.

Farbod 15 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) LADI
Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises
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enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return.
A radical pedagogical stance is key – anti-capitalist movements can be effective, but critical consciousness is a necessary prerequisite.

Peter Mclaren 4, Education and Urban Schooling Division prof, UCLA—and Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale; University of Windsor, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 36, No. 2, 2004, www.freireproject.org/articles/node2065/RCGS/class_dismissed-val-peter.10.pdf. LADI
These are the concrete realities of our time—realities that require a vigorous class
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memories. Its potential remains untapped and its promise needs to be redeemed.

Tournament: 0 | Round: 1 | Opponent: None | Judge: None
The 1ACs assumption that US military power needs to be curbed because it is an entrenchment of US dominance over other countries assumes that others can’t handle the US’s nuclear energy reproduces inequality and re-entrenches state power. They only ban nuclear power for the US – assuming developing nations aren’t capable. Their Connory 2 evidence criticizes the US for being anglo centric and dominating – this is a link.
Mathur ’16 -- Department of Political Science and Geography, Univ of Texas (Ritu, Sly civility and the paradox of equality/inequality in the nuclear order: a post-colonial critique, Critical Studies on Security, Volume 4, 2016, Issue 1)
The role of the ballot is to reject orientalism as a prejudiced and inaccurate view of the world. Their language is a first priority – stereotypes shape how we think
Mathur ’16 -- Department of Political Science and Geography, Univ of Texas (Ritu, Sly civility and the paradox of equality/inequality in the nuclear order: a post-colonial critique, Critical Studies on Security, Volume 4, 2016, Issue 1
The alternative is to embrace an emancipatory post-colonial politics –must create a knowledge base that can foster cooperative attempts at meaningful political change. Brydon ‘06
Diana Brydon, University of Western Ontario, ‘6 Postcolonial Test 2.1, “Is There a Politics of Postcoloniality?” http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/viewArticle/508/175
Colonial racism is the biggest impact in the round – viewing others as subhuman, dangerous, and irrational is the root cause of many of society’s ills
Mathur ’14 (Ritu, ‘The West and the Rest’: A Civilizational Mantra in Arms Control and Disarmament?   Contemporary Security Policy, 35:3, 332-355)

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State cuts have led tuition to spike harming the ability to students to enter college, especially those who come from low income backgrounds or are people of color – The impact is a blow to the national economy because a college degree is a crucial internal link to working in a skilled job, decreasing health care costs, and bringing greater wealth to local communities

Mitchell et al 16 (Report published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; authors were Michael Mitchell (State Budget and Tax), Michael Leachman (State Budget and Tax), and Kathleen Masterson, "Funding Down, Tuition Up: State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges", http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-down-tuition-up, EmmieeM)
Years of cuts in state funding for public colleges and universities have driven up tuition
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the start of the recession will make it more difficult to achieve those goals
The only thing keeping graduation rates stable is financial aid —- allows students to study full-time, encourages academic progress, and is the only way low-income students can afford to enroll

Johnson 14 (Hans Johnson – supported by the College Access Foundation of California and writing for the Public Policy Institute of California, "Making College Possible for Low-Income Students: Grant and Scholarship Aid in California", http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/report/R'1014HJR.pdf, pg. 20-24, EmmieeM)
Students fail to complete college for many reasons, including financial constraints. Certainly it
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earn a degree if they first enroll at a four-year college.
There’s a contradiction within government policy —- restricting free speech may be unconstitutional, but not doing so causes public colleges to lose federal funding under Title IX

Bernstein 3 (David E. Bernstein – George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law with a focus on constitutional history, "You Can’t Say That: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties From Antidiscrimination Laws", "Censoring Campus Speech", https://books.google.com/books?id=zU2QAAAAQBAJandpg=PA60andlpg=PA60anddq=public+colleges+could+lose+funding+if+they+allow+for+racistsandsource=blandots=W67N5E3bznandsig=xXeBW8YaTy'Ilb34MIbu-grciy4andhl=enandsa=Xandved=0ahUKEwiBoqTkn'nQAhVBjFQKHcc7CIkQ6AEITDAI~~#v=onepageandq=public20colleges20could20lose20funding20if20they20allow20for20racistsandf=false, pg. 60-61, EmmieeM)
Given these constitutional barriers, public university speech codes were on the way out until
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Amendment, then so can they. Unfortunately, they may be right.
Federal funding is used to maintain financial aid resources and colleges are only growing more dependent on it as state funding goes down

Pew 15 (The Pew Charitable Trusts – compiles evidence and non-partisan analysis to inform the public and create better public policy, "Federal and State Funding of Higher Education: A Changing Landscape", http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2015/06/federal-and-state-funding-of-higher-education, EmmieeM)
States and the federal government have long provided substantial funding for higher education, but
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, while state funds primarily pay for the general operations of public institutions.
The impact is massive – combatting the structural barriers that prevent individuals from attending college is the main internal link to competitiveness

U.S. Department of Commerce 12 (Prepared by the U.S. Department of Commerce with consultation from the National Economic Council, "The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity in the United States", http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/thecompetitivenessandinnovativecapacityoftheunitedstates.pdf, pgs. 2-10, EmmieeM)
Education is a key element for promoting economic growth and increasing the innovative capacity of
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schools in 2011–2012 was lower than in 2007–2008.21
Competitiveness is key to US dominance – we need to keep innovating faster to ensure economic prosperity and hegemony

Segal 04 – Senior Fellow in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations
Adam, Foreign Affairs, "Is America Losing Its Edge?" November / December 2004, http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20041101facomment83601/adam-segal/is-america-losing-its-edge.html~~
The United States' global primacy depends in large part on its ability to develop new
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, the United States must get better at fostering technological entrepreneurship at home.
Loss of competitiveness results in great power conflict—retrenchment makes war inevitable and ensures the US would be dragged in – that causes your heg bad impacts so it’s try or die for the AFF

Khalilzad 11 — Zalmay Khalilzad, Counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, served as the United States ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the United Nations during the presidency of George W. Bush, served as the director of policy planning at the Defense Department during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 2011 ("The Economy and National Security," National Review, February 8th, Available Online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/259024, Accessed 02-08-2011)
Today, economic and fiscal trends pose the most severe long-term threat to
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leading the world toward a new, dangerous era of multi-polarity.