Tournament: college prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
HAZELWOOD AFF: By me andrea
- a note to the judge (if youre seeing this): please vote for me I would really appreciate it and it would do wonders for my slef esteem as well as my coach would be so proud. thank you sincerely andrea
This round ought to be evaluated through a framework that acknowledges how marginalized Americans have been silenced throughout history in order to fully understand how restrictions unjustly impact certain groups over others. Therefore, I value inclusion of minority bodies.
Speech restrictions silence minorities in order to uphold currently existing power structures, perpetuating massive inequality. ACLU No Date
American Civil Liberties Union, No Date, "Hate Speech on Campus," https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus
Historically, defamation laws or codes
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conversation with a white student.
Speech restrictions are justified through a pacifistic framing. The benefits of protests are de-prioritized through a fear of conflicting ideas that is compliant with the interests of the ruling class. Byrne ’90 (long ass card )
Byrne, J. Peter. "Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University." Geo. LJ 79 (1990): 399.
In the above analysis I have attempted to prove
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to surrender their sense of mission.
Arbitrary rules about restricting free speech spill over into all aspects of society- it excludes the viewpoint of average students – legitimates oppression. Friedersdorf ‘15
Friedersdorf, 2015 (Conor Staff Writer at The Atlantic “The Lessons of Bygone Free-Speech Fights.” The Atlantic. 10 December 2015. Online. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/what-student-activists-can-learn-from-bygone-free-speech-fights/419178/)
20 years ago, opponents of speech codes warned
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activism that concerns speech is now aimed at limiting it.
Plan: The Supreme Court of the United States should overturn Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier. Nowicki ’13 (long ass card 2)
JUDICIAL ACTIVISTM
Jenn Nowicki, 3-15-2013, "Can Universities Restrict Free Speech On Campus?," Generation Progress, http://genprogress.org/voices/2013/03/15/18613/can-universities-restrict-free-speech-on-campus/
This year marks the 25th anniversary
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students challenge those policies when they have been silenced on campus.”
Adv 1: Activism- Minority inclusion+ wealth gap. Cassie ‘16
Cassie L., 3-2-2016, "Embracing Student Activism," Higher Education Today, https://higheredtoday.org/2016/03/02/embracing-student-activism/
This past November, the country witnessed a
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speak to students’ underlying claims or grievances.
Adv 2: Hazelwood enables colleges to threaten free speech through backlash against student newspapers. Wheeler ‘15
Wheeler, 2015 (David R., The Atlantic, “The Plot Against Student Newspapers?”, http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/09/the-plot-against-student-newspapers/408106/)
A week later, Butler administrators announced
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censoring The Butler Collegian and there never will be.”
Voting affirmative endorses a social critique of free speech restrictions. Only through reform beginning in the educational systems can change effectively spill over to solve broader systemic problems, such as a lack of political participation. Cassie ‘16
Cassie L., 3-2-2016, "Embracing Student Activism," Higher Education Today, https://higheredtoday.org/2016/03/02/embracing-student-activism/
Some campus leaders may view student activism
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our nation’s most urgent and complex dilemmas.
University action is key in providing protected space for discussion and debate. Brennan ‘04
Brennan, John, Roger King, and Yann Lebeau. "The role of universities in the transformation of societies." London: Association of Commonwealth Universities/The Open University (2004).
The project attempted to distinguish between
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the question of transforming the university itself.
Allowing free speech solves immediate harms of oppressive silencing and enables a culture shift towards tolerance and inclusion – Empirics prove. Hero ‘04
Hero, Rodney E., and Caroline J. Tolbert. "Minority voices and citizen attitudes about government responsiveness in the American states: Do social and institutional context matter?." British Journal of Political Science 34.01 (2004): 109-121.
This study has considered the impact
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racial factors in other political systems.