Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Infor | Judge: mation
I'm Lexus Root (Lincoln LR). You can contact me on Facebook by the account of the same name or email me at lexusroot@gmail.com for any questions that you have. (Facebook preferred)

My pronouns are she/her.

Tournament: Norfolk | Round: 3 | Opponent: Elkhorn | Judge: M

I affirm the resolution that stands resolved: The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers.

Beginning with the value debate: I value morality. Morality is the result of the human experiment in which static truths don’t exist, but rather, these truths are subject to change. We must constantly inquire into change of the world to update the Moral.

I contend we should not foreclose the possibility of experimentation with the Political as a method of effective change. We should instead innovate and improve the material conditions we face; and thus my criterion is pragmatic experimentation with the law.

Inherency

Subsections b(1), d(1)(B) and d(1)(C) of Section 1206 of Public Law 110-53 currently allows for the civic immunity of any police and law enforcement that had acted in “good faith” in regards to possible terrorism; actions that are fundamentally discriminatory are protected, allowing for an endless war on those that do not meet the standard of “posing no threat”, of meeting their categorical definitions of the Safe. Arun Kundnani and Deepa Kumar in 2015 write,

Arun (professor @ NYU, and author on domestic surveillance) and Deepa (professor of Middle East Studies @ Rutgers), Spring 2015, “Race, surveillance, and empire”, http://isreview.org/issue/96/race-surveillance-and-empire, Accessed 7/14/15, AX
Discussions of the ... before or after.61

Modern Islamophobic policies create a state of life which is never really lived, and continually creates a war on difference. Tim Wise in 2001 writes,

Wise 1 (Tim Wise, Writer, lecturer, antiracism activist, author, and was an adjunct professor at the Smith College School of Social Work and was an advisor to the Fisk University Race Relations Institute, “Rationalizing Racism: Panic and Profiling After 9/11”, December 10 2001, http://www.alternet.org/story/12065/rationalizing_racism3A_panic_and_profiling_after_9_11?paging=off#bookmark) mL
To many, complaints ... that's the point.

Plan

Thus, the plan: The United States Congress should strike subsections b(1), d(1)(B) and d(1)(C) of section 1206 of Public Law 110-53, and to amend this section to require the debriefing on all law enforcement officers of this change.

Solvency

Three pieces of solvency here-

One: The debriefing of law enforcement officers that are subject to the plan eliminates the defense of qualified immunity due to a non-clearly established precedent; with the required debriefing, qualified immunity can no longer be a defense for unreasonable action due to the formulation of qualified immunity.

Two: Policy, specifically in relation to stopping Islamophobia, is necessary for change to be actualized. Tiffani B. Figeuroa in 2012 writes,

Tiffani B. Figueroa, associate in Morrison Foerster’s Litigation Department,  J.D. magna cum laude from Hofstra University School of Law, “"ALL MUSLIMS ARE LIKE THAT": HOW ISLAMOPHOBIA IS DIMINISHING AMERICANS' RIGHT TO RECEIVE INFORMATION”, Hofstra Law Review, Winter 2012
Although Muslims have ... by public policy. 1 87

Three: Interrogations of Islamophobia in educational settings is key to establish a critical consciousness that establishes larger political projects: this space is key. Just the act of looking at Islamophobia as it relates to today’s discussion will allow for wider political change. Shirin Housee in 2012 writes,

Shirin Housee works at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK “What’s the point? Anti-racism and students’ voices against Islamophobia”, Volume 15, Issue 1
Having reflected on ... should be directed”. (Sheridan, L, 2004:162 in Driel, B, Van)

Tournament: Elkhorn South | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Millard North MM | Judge: Panel
See v1, added pragmatism card. I usually concede the framework debate so it doesn't matter much (neg usually does some form of governmental legitimacy that I meet), but disclosed anyway.

Prefer pragmatism, because being able to engage in experimentation is key to testing beliefs and solving problems that hurt us as a society – we shouldn’t foreclose a possible solution.

Anderson 2014
Elizabeth, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at University of Michigan. “The Quest for Free Labor Pragmatism and Experiments in Emancipation” Amherst Lecture in Philosophy. 2014 SA-IB
Because individuals occupy ... would solve it.

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lincoln East SB | Judge: Payton Shudak

How do we evalutate the debate round? We evaluate as we always have, by plugging yourself into the methodology of the affirmative and asking if the affirmative works for you, and if not, plugging in the negative and asking if that works for you. Deleuze 95

Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, published in 1995, Columbia University Press, p8-9
There are, you ... reading with love"

"It was very early ... with their laughter." That was Kafka writing on Gibs Auf! (Give it up!)

Kafka 25

Franz Kafka, ungeheures Ungeziefer, published in 1925, trans. Ian Johnston, no date of publication, Franz Kafka Online
Before the law is ... to close it.

What does this mean in relation to the topic? What does it mean in relation to our lives? Glen 07

Patrick J. Glen, published in 2007, published int he Southern California Interdisciplinary Law ournal Volume 17:23 2007, "The Deconstruction and Reification of Law in Franz Kafka's "Before the Law" and The Trial", pages 42-43
The difference lies in ... Society in london in 1982.163

The Law is omnipresent ... the Law; study yourself.

 Analytic summary

Plug the affirmative into yourself and see what it has to offer.

Tournament: Norfolk | Round: 6 | Opponent: Hastings | Judge: MS

Kafka 36

Franz Kafka, ungeheures Ungeziefer, 1936, Gibs Auf!, Beschreibung eines Kampfes, trans. 1958 in Description of a Struggle
It was very ... with their laughter.

How do we evaluate the debate round? We evaluate as we always have, by plugging yourself into the methodology of the affirmative and asking if the affirmative works for you, and if not, plugging in the negative and asking if that works for you. Deleuze 95

Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations, published in 1995, Columbia University Press, p.8-9
There are, you ... reading with love.

Kafka, in a letter to Oskar Pollak writes,

Franz Kafka, January 27 1904, in a letter to Oskar Pollak, republished in 2004, http://languagehat.com/kafka-on-books/
Altogether, I think ... what I believe.

Kafka 25

Franz Kafka, ungeheures Ungeziefer, published in 1925,  trans. Ian Johnston, no date of publication, Franz Kafka Online, http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html
Before the law ... to close it.

What does this mean in relation to the topic? What does it mean in relation to our lives? Glen ‘07

Patrick J. Glen, published in 2007, published in the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Volume 17:23 2007,  “The Deconstruction and Reification of Law in Franz Kafka’s “Before the Law” and The Trial”, pages 42-43 accessed 11/2/16, http://clhc.usc.edu/why/students/orgs/ilj/assets/docs/17-120Glen.pdf
The difference lies ... London in 1982.163

The Law is omnipresent, collected by lines from individual to individual, capable of radically being experimented upon. This experimentation of the Law allows for us to criticise the interactions between individuals that leads to interactions of hate; this transformation (perhaps even a Metamorphosis) of the Law allows us to individually change our relation to others to productively engage. We aren’t policymakers, we are people who have wishes and dreams and wants and fears and secrets and people around us, and you can only affect the world as far as you can investigate those wishes and dreams and wants and fears and secrets and people around you.

And so the only alternative is to investigate the Law as you personally are able to- everyday, quotidian, individual interactions of the law to be further looked upon and understood. Situate yourself among the Law; how do you personally engage with it? Study desiring as the Law; study yourself. Deleuze and Guattari write in 1986

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, 1986, Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature, Immanence and Desire, p43-52
From this point ... throws at him.

Plug the affirmative into yourself and see what it has to offer.

Tournament: Elkhorn South | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Millard North MM | Judge: Panel
Interpretation: Debaters should ask to spread before the round starts.

Standards: (Probably missing a few, this was all analytic and on the spot)

1. Fairness
   2. Reject ablenormativity in debate
   3. Judge as adjudicator, debate forms our outside lives
   4. Extend that Housee card, added analysis for the same being true of ableism.

Tournament: Westside | Round: 2 | Opponent: Millard North MM | Judge: J Slechta

Under the current system of the university and speech codes, those with dis/abilities are often excluded de facto to a level that is nearly de jure in nature - those who do not have social understandings to the level of the average person are structurally excluded from discussions regarding what speech is protected and what speech is not. Dr Drake explains one of many dis/abilities that are structurally harmed from speech codes,

Dr. Miles E. Drake Jr., MD, Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder DSM-5 315.39 (F80.89), no date, theravive, http://www.theravive.com/therapedia/Social-(Pragmatic)-Communication-Disorder-DSM~-~-5-315.39-(F80.89)
Social (pragmatic) communication ... cases of SCD.

Internalized ableism is perpetuated through the ruse of an objective academic speech code, whereby passing is used by academics to hide their impairments so that they aren’t seen as needy or troublemakers. Absent the affirmative method, the violence of internalized ableism continues. Professor Campbell of Griffith writes,

Fiona Kumari Campbell, Exploring internalized ableism using critical race theory, 2008, ellipses in original
In the case ... and networking arrangements (see Bishop 1999; Monaghan, 1998).

Standard: deconstruct ableism

And, instead of a feigned redress for the harms presented to people with dis/abilities, we offer an affirmation of individuals that ableism, typical “reasonable accommodations” rhetoric, and neoliberal inclusivity leaves behind. The method is a cripistemological affirmation of the failure of the normalizing process that seeks to destroy difference, and opens up a meaningful dialogue regarding the exclusive inclusive nature of the university. Mitchell et al write,

Every Child Left Behind” Curricular Cripistemologies and the Crip/Queer Art of Failure, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, and Linda Ware, The George Washington University / Independent Scholar / SUNY–Geneseo, 2014
Most indicators point ... neoliberal tolerance allows.

Only starting from a cripistemologogical standpoint can challenge the underlying logics that support compulsory-ableism. Mitchell et al further,

As a corrective ... dictates of standardization.

Cripistemologies are not only for crip people – the structural exclusion of people with dis/abilities concerns us all. Johnson and McRuer write,

Merri Lisa Johnson, University of South Carolina Upstate; Robert McRuer, George Washington University. “Cripistemologies: Introduction” Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies Volume 8, Issue 2, 2014
Cripistemology, as we ... require of us.

Tournament: Lincoln East | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest RJ | Judge: XX
(This is all of the new evidence)

We do this: Crip spaces. What that means, we let Chandler explain,

Eliza Chandler, http://nomorepotlucks.org/site/cripping-community-new-meanings-of-disability-and-community/, Cripping Community:
New Meanings of Disability and Community, No More Potlucks, doctorial fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and is a Senior Doctorial Fellow at New College, U of T. She teaches courses in Disability Studies at New College and at OISE/UT
Ableism, to be ... be in community.

Tournament: Lincoln East | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest RJ | Judge: XX

The issues that the negative point out are not even constitutionally protected speech on the site of the campus - in general, as their evidence suggests, it is constitutionally protected, but in university is not. We apply the O’Brien test, as explained by the Supreme Court in United States v. O’Brien,

Supreme Court, United States v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367, 27 May 1968, http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/obrien.html, as a note: the O’Brien case was specific to draft resistance, but the O’Brien test is still in effect
We cannot accept ... for violating it.

Perm: do both; not mutually exclusive with the affirmative and thus no competition. If they say they have no counterplan and so it can’t be permed, vote them down because they have become a moving target in the debate - that’s a voter for education and fairness because we no longer have a meaningful debate when they change the topic at any point.

Analytics

Analytics

Analytics

Perm solves, extend their evidence.

Analytics

Tournament: Lincoln Northstar | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lincoln Northeast | Judge: XX
Standard - technological and societal advancement. Three reasons:

1. There is a moral imperative to advance technologically.

Stephen Robert Garner, 2007, Transhumanism and the imago Dei: Narratives of apprehension and hope, Ph.D. thesis
Beneficence as moral ... in the world.

2. Even moderate gains in technology have giant real-world impacts.

Stuart Russel, Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986, professor at UC Berkeley; Peter Norvig, previous head of Computational Sciences at NASA, Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley; Chapter 27: AI: The Present and the Future, page 1051, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Third Edition
We can expect ... to be done.

3. Analytic.

Contention 1. Robots.

Universities serve as a conglomeration of researchers - private and federal grants prove.

University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, 2017, Funding, https://ai.arizona.edu/about/funding
Much of the ... by our sponsors.

History proves.

National Science and Technology Council, Executive Office of the President of the United States, October 2016, THE NATIONAL ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIC PLAN, https://www.nitrd.gov/PUBS/national_ai_rd_strategic_plan.pdf
In 1956, researchers ... and public welfare.

Robots and AI necessarily require external stimulus. Context is necessary, wherein...

Masafumi Oizumi , Larissa Albantakis , Giulio Tononi, May 8, 2014, From the Phenomenology to the Mechanisms of Consciousness: Integrated Information Theory 3.0, PLOS Computational Biology, http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003588
The self-referential nature ... more detail elsewhere.

IBM Watson proves - more data key.

Jo Best has been covering IT for the best part of a decade for publications including silicon.com, Guardian Government Computing and ZDNet in both London and Sydney, IBM Watson: The inside story of how the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was born, and what it wants to do next, 2013, http://www.techrepublic.com/article/ibm-watson-the-inside-story-of-how-the-jeopardy-winning-supercomputer-was-born-and-what-it-wants-to-do-next/
For that, IBM ... substantial," said Horn.

Additionally, the only way to achieve a contextualisation of actions is through emotional development.

JC Torres, degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, Senior editor at SlashGear, AI needs to be more emotional, 20 Dec 2016, https://www.slashgear.com/ai-personal-assistants-need-to-understand-emotions-20468093/
AI assistant and ... intelligent as well.

Analytic.

More speech good. Speak out. Have the robots speak out, too.

American Civil Liberties Union, HATE SPEECH ON CAMPUS, no date, https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus
How much we ... are thereby weakened."

3 analytics at the end.

Tournament: Ralston | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest DC | Judge: Nate Woodford

I decided to disclose the entirety of the NC that I wrote as opposed to a barebones outline. This is it.

I have not seen many arguments in debate that are outright abusive or are outright hateful or are outright ignorant - I have seen people talk about that racial profiling is necessary by a slip of tongue, a long story when they were talking about qualified immunity, but I have not seen someone who unapologetically decides to spew hateful rhetoric after being told that it is hateful and fundamentally wrong. Danny has done that.

First, extend across their arguments that specific types of speech - namely hate speech and speech that propagates rape myths - being harmful to their core; the substance of the words have a material impact, wherein there is emotional trauma that is invoked. Their cards make this explicitly clear.

Second, remember the specific linguistic choices that the NC had made - they talked about ‘victims’, not only in their cards (which may be forgivable), but also in their analytics - specifically in analytic that wasn't typed - it was a quote from their analytics, obviously.

That just begs the question of what a victim is, and what it means to be a victim- I am a victim, and that is all I am. Victim because I am weak, because I didn’t fight back, because I am passive, because I can’t speak for myself, because a label is more descriptive than my being. Victim because you know me better than I know myself.

Mama volunteered at the Friendship Home while she was in college, because she was a ‘victim’ when she was younger. I asked her why she helps those ‘victims’, unknowing, and she told me to never say that word again. She said that they are not victims, they are people, and that I need to emphasize that they are people - they are not objects of a conversation, totally immaterial, but they are people that are trying - if not materially, then spiritually - and that they have wants, fears, wishes, hopes, dreams … just like I do. Mom taught me something important, and I have tried to make the world a better place by telling others, and teaching others, what she taught me that day.

If you’ve never heard the Grammys version of Kanye’s _Hey Mama_, give it a listen, it’s powerful. Here’s an excerpt:
 Seven years old, caught you with tears in your eyes
 Cuz a man cheatin, telling you lies, then I started to cry
 As we knelt on the kitchen floor
 I said mommy Imma love you till you don't hurt no more
 And when I'm older, you ain’t gotta work no more
 And Imma get you that mansion that we couldn't afford
 See you're, unbreakable, unmistakable
 Highly capable, lady that's makin loot
 A livin legend too, just look at what heaven do
 Send us an angel, and I thank you (Hey Mama)

Thanks, Mama. For teaching me - for trying - for being a survivor, of being a person, of being a fighter, who’s unbreakable to her core.

Sadly, it appears that Danny is unwilling to change his language. Why? I asked his coach that very question, after he had lost to an argument about his rhetoric two times, and they said that he was just unwilling. Why are people so unwilling to change their language, when they have been told by three people - maybe more - that their language is harmful and it leads to real harms against others? I ask myself that - and you should be asking yourself that when evaluating who ‘won’ the debate round.

I suppose it is time to move onto the debate world, and with that there are two arguments being presented:

A - To be a “victim” is to become an object, losing the common humanity. Dunn 2004,

Jennifer L. Dunn Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, "“Victims” and “Survivors”: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for “Battered Women Who Stay”" Sociological Inquiry Vol. 75, Issue 1, p. 1-30(Dec 2004) FD
“Barry discusses what she calls “victimism”: “In creating new definitions we always risk incorporating the rigidity in the new that exemplified the old . . . Creating the role and status of the victim is the practice I call victimism . . . creates a framework for others to know them her not as a person but as a victim, someone to whom violence was done . . . Victimism is an objectification which establishes new standards for defining experience; those standards dismiss any question of will, and deny that the people are woman even while enduring sexual violence is a living, changing, growing, interactive person. (1979:38)” In this excerpt, Barry defines victim typifications as problematic, precisely because this identity denies women their agency; they are people lacking “will” and to whom things “are done” (1979:38).”

B - Rhetoric of “victim” causes a loss of agency, instructing others to perceive the abused as a helpless, passive, individual. Dunn,

Jennifer L. Dunn Professor of Sociology at Southern Illinois University, "“Victims” and “Survivors”: Emerging Vocabularies of Motive for “Battered Women Who Stay”" Sociological Inquiry Vol. 75, Issue 1, p. 1-30(Dec 2004) FD
In sum, the cultural context within which typifications of battered women as “survivors” appear is one characterized by multiple voices problematizing the identity of “victim,” for a variety of reasons. Feminists argue about the political implications of its overpurification and polarity in a binary classification. Therapists want victims to leave behind their victim identities as part of healing from trauma, and shelter workers and battered women present realities far more complex than simplistic imagery can encompass. Importantly, the term “victim” has accrued associations from which even those who are harmed by social problems distance themselves.5 While the reasons for this are complex, they have mostly to do with the lack of agency that appears, in the logic of this process, to define victimization. As Holstein and Miller argue, to “victimize someone instructs others is to understand the person as a rather passive, indeed helpless, recipient of injury or injustice . . . this denies ‘disables’ a person to the extent that victim status appropriates one’s personal identity as a competent efficacious actor (1997:43)”.

Tournament: Westside | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest DC | Judge: Fred Robertson

Even if you don’t buy the theoretical harms aspect of our criticism of their case, we are debating within Westside, and have to follow their rules -- prefer the rules of the host school over the flow, because we have to respect the space in which we are operating. Westside 16,

Westside High School, it’s a school what other qualifications do you expect?, Westside High School Warrior Handbook: A Publication of Information and Regulations for Westside High School, August 2016, accessed http://whs.westside66.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Aug-2016-Warrior-Handbook.pdf
The following conduct ... school activities or school transportation;