Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: University HS, Irvine JC | Judge: Kim, JJ
This round ought to be evaluated through a framework that acknowledges how certain groups 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 marginalized groups in order to uphold currently existing social hierarchies and perpetuate inequality and racism. ACLU No Date
American Civil Liberties Union, xx-xx-xxxx, "Hate Speech on Campus," https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus
Historically, defamation laws
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we'll be next."
Speech restrictions are justified through a pacifistic framing. The interests of the ruling class are prioritized over the benefits of protests and activism. Byrne ’90 (long ass card )
Byrne, J. Peter. "Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University." Geo. LJ 79 (1990): 399.
In the above s
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sense of mission.
Arbitrary rules about restricting free speech spill over into all aspects of society. The oppress average students by excluding their viewpoints. 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
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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)
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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
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silenced on campus.”
Adv 1: Activism- Minority inclusion, deconstructing whiteness. 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,
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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
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there never will be.”
Reform must begin in the educational system for change to effectively spill over to solve a broader 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
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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
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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
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in other political systems.
