Tournament: Dowling | Round: 2 | Opponent: Okoboji BH | Judge: Brad Noethe

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The affirmative is an exercise of strategic symbolic politics—In order to maximize their strategic flexibility in the debate round they made the strategic choice to not specify their actor or type of limit, saying CX checks.  It gives them the strategic flexibility to avoid theory debates.  The outcome is the perpetuation of strategically ambiguous discourse that renders their discursive choices ontologically, ethically, and effectively flawed.
Bluhdorn and Welsh 13 Ingolfur Blühdorn is reader in politics and political sociology at the University of Bath, England, Ian Welsh is Reader in Sociology in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, The Politics of Unsustainability: Eco-Politics in the Post-Ecologist Era pp. 72-5
If surrogate politics ... of svmbolic; politics.
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Turns the Case -- Racial reforms built on the discourse of strategic ambiguity empirically make racism worse while creating the appearance of solving racism—It masks the ongoing racism.  The affirmative claim to “substantially curtail” racist surveillance through the lens that says ongoing surveillance will no longer be “based on race” locks in and legitimates racism by making it less visible.  
Murakawa 14  Naomi Murakawa is an associate professor of African American Studies at Princeton University The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America Pp 150-52
Liberal agendas to -~-- of the law."
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Crushes all solvency - Empirically strategic ambiguity will be exploited to continue and mask ongoing colonial domination
Maira 9 Sunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Legal ambiguity Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 Pp 50-1
Amy Kaplan (2005) points ... roots of the nation-state.
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The Alternative is to reject strategically ambiguous discourse - co-opts the aff.
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The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best pedagogy recognizing difference.
Trifonas 3 (Peter Pericles Trifonas University of Toronto Ph.D. Pedagogies of difference: Rethinking education for social change. Psychology Press, 2003.)
The idea of difference ... for social justice.

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 3 | Opponent: Valley CR | Judge: Joe Rankin

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Focus on epistemology in debate ignores material violence.
Curry 14 Dr. Tommy J. Curry The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century. 2014.
Despite the pronouncement ... tendencies and politics
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The formulation of decision calculus perpetuates racist ideology and white supremacy
Curry 15, Tommy. "Draft In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical." Academia.edu. N.p., no date. Web. 30 June 2015. https://www.academia.edu/3384301/_Draft_In_the_Fiat_of_Dreams_The_Delusional_Allure_of_Hope_the_Reality_of_Anti-Black_Violence_and_the_Demands_of_the_Anti-Ethical
Racism is not ... Obsolence of discipline
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The erasure of the black body from ethics translates into the erasure of the black body from life.
Curry 15, Tommy. "Draft In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical." Academia.edu. N.p., no date. Web. 30 June 2015. https://www.academia.edu/3384301/_Draft_In_the_Fiat_of_Dreams_The_Delusional_Allure_of_Hope_the_Reality_of_Anti-Black_Violence_and_the_Demands_of_the_Anti-Ethical
This vacating of ... of mainstream society¶ ,‖
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The alternative is to embrace anti-ethics
Curry 15, Tommy. "Draft In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical." Academia.edu. N.p., no date. Web. 30 June 2015. https://www.academia.edu/3384301/_Draft_In_the_Fiat_of_Dreams_The_Delusional_Allure_of_Hope_the_Reality_of_Anti-Black_Violence_and_the_Demands_of_the_Anti-Ethical.
Traditionally we have ... seeing the Black.
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The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best pedagogy recognizing difference.
Trifonas 3 (Peter Pericles Trifonas University of Toronto Ph.D. Pedagogies of difference: Rethinking education for social change. Psychology Press, 2003.)
The idea of ... for social justice.

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 5 | Opponent: Valley EM | Judge: Tony Welter

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Tort Law commodifies human life and experiences – creating a market for exploitation.
Abel 81 Abel, Richard L. “A Critique of American Tort Law.” British Journal of Law and Society, vol. 8, no. 2, 1981, pp. 199–231. www.jstor.org/stable/1409721. Richard Abel teaches Torts, Legal Profession, and Law and Social Change. Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor B.A. Harvard, 1962 LL.B. Columbia, 1965 Ph.D. School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1974 LL.D. (honoris causa), University of Westminster UCLA Faculty Since 1974
Tort law1 is ... shared with physicians.
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Analytic
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The alternative is to reject capitalism, complete rejection is key, as engaging the state links you back in.
Meszaros 08, Chair of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, 2008 Istvan, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time, p323-328, JC
The unreality of ... the self-managing freely.
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The Role of the Ballot is to endorse the best pedagogy of radical democracy - congrats literally all of the AC framework just became my solvency.
Giroux 13 Professor, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, Ontario (Henry, “Radical Democracy Against Cultures of Violence”, http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20669-radical-democracy-against-cultures-of-violence, dml)
Casino capitalism's paranoiac ... for all people.

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 5 | Opponent: Valley EM | Judge: Tony Welter

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They misinterpret their Hagglund evidence - Individual people can’t truly define meaning because anyone solving for violence defines terms to help themself, but doesn’t allow for communal norms sharing. The responsibility to reconcile different ideologies of just and unjust falls onto the most powerful entity. This sovereign must reconcile differences and dictate the normative system.
Parrish Derrida`s Economy of Violence in Hobbes` Social Contract, Richard Parrish
All of the ... the natural condition.
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Therefore, the standard is promoting the will of the sovereign.
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It’s impossible to escape the NC.
Parrish 2 Derrida`s Economy of Violence in Hobbes` Social Contract, Richard Parrish
But even more ... creator of meaning.
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We preclude – Absent a sovereign, we just exist in the state of nature with no rights whatsoever.
Kant (Kant, Immanuel, and Mary J. Gregor. Practical philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1999.)
On the contrary ... a civil condition.
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I contend limiting QI undermines the will of the sovereign.
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1. Court Clog
   Putnam Charles T. Putnam Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and Charles T. Ferris JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, “Defending a Maligned Defense:  e Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983,” Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992.
   National resources are ... defendants facing suit
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   2. Overdetterence
   Hyman Jonathan M. Hyman, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers, “Qualified Immunity Reconsidered,” Wayne Law Review, Vol. 27, 1981.
   Qualified immunity is ... can be justified

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 3 | Opponent: Valley CR | Judge: Joe Rankin

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A. Interpretation: the aff should ONLY defend enactment of a topical plan—that means a state policy action of the USFG limting qualified immunity.
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Limit means "bound."
Court of Appeals of Maryland 2 (SY-LENE OF WASHINGTON, INC. v. STARWOOD URBAN RETAIL II, LLC No. 132, September Term, 2002 COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND 376 Md. 157; 829 A.2d 540; 2003 Md. LEXIS 455 July 29, 2003, Filed)
Definitions of the ... area or range.
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Resolved means the affirmative must defend the implementation of a policy action by a government.
Parcher 1 (Jeff, Fmr. Debate Coach at Georgetown University, February, http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html)
Pardon me if ... to a question.
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B-C. Analytics
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Preparation and clash—changing the topic post facto manipulates balance of prep, which structurally favors the aff because they speak last and permute alternatives—strategic fairness is key to engaging a well-prepared opponent – they monopolize strategy and subvert any meaningful neg role
Ryan Galloway 7, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007
Debate as a ... of topical advocacy.
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Only maintaining a limited topic of discussion and a clear stasis for both teams provides the necessary and requisite foundation for decision-making and advocacy skills and ensures clash within debates – even if they are contestable, that is different from being valuably debatable.
Steinberg and Freeley ‘8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a ...the following discussion.
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D-E. Analytics