Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 1 | Opponent: Infor | Judge: mation

If nothing else, be kind.

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: Millard West | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines LB | Judge: Jacob Ferry

Their use of fancy multi-syllable buzzwords and impressive-sounding claims is a ploy to cover for arguments so vague they're meaningless. And don't let them hide behind "our cards use these terms" – they can write the tags any way they want. In short: they are serving you a big helping of pseudo-profound bullshit. Pennycook et al 1,

Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html, Yale University, New Haven with expertise in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit, Judgment and Decision Making, brackets in original
The Oxford English ... rather than instructive.

Validating bullshit creates an unwitting appreciation for vague, meaningless ideas to the point where we don't know it's bullshit anymore. Sperber,

Sperber 2010 May 6, http://www.academia.edu/2989467/The_Guru_Effect, the Guru Effect, Dan Sperber is a French social and cognitive scientist. His most influential work has been in the fields of cognitive anthropology and linguistic pragmatics
The writing of ... for the appreciation.

Acceptance of bullshit leads to a breakdown of conflict detection, reasoning, and decision-making. Pennycook et al 2,

Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, Jonathan A. Fugelsang, http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html, Yale University, New Haven with expertise in Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit, Judgment and Decision Making, brackets in original
The second mechanism ... bullshit from non-bullshit.

Tournament: Elkhorn South | Round: Semis | Opponent: Lincoln East FC | Judge: Panel

We believe the better way to confront the affirmative claims is to host a public forum wherein we could discuss the issue regarding the debate we are a part of- this solves a lot better for constructive discourse than the dualistic nature of debate.

This solves better for two reasons: Attempting to create recognition through a competitive debate round is structurally flawed since there are no permanently written records of decisions and there is little collective memory of what happened in any given debate.

Atchison and Panetta, 09
(Jarrod Atchison, Phd Rhetoric University of Georgia, Assistant Professor and Director of debate at Wake Forest University, and Edward Panetta, Phd Rhetoric Associate Professor University of Pitt and Director of Debate at Georgia, Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication, Historical Developments and Issues for the Future, "Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication: Issues for the Future," The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, Lunsford, Andrea, ed. (Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 2009) p. 317-334) NM
In addition to ... their own debaters.

The plea for change through winning the ballot not only fails to inculcate communal response but also re-entrenches the very evil they criticize by reproducing antagonism rather than coalitions

Atchison and Panetta, 09 (Jarrod Atchison, Phd Rhetoric University of Georgia, Assistant Professor and Director of debate at Wake Forest University, and Edward Panetta, Phd Rhetoric Associate Professor University of Pitt and Director of Debate at Georgia, Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication, Historical Developments and Issues for the Future, “Intercollegiate Debate and Speech Communication: Issues for the Future,” The Sage Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, Lunsford, Andrea, ed. (Los Angeles: Sage Publications Inc., 2009) p. 317-334)
Competition has been ... the debate community.

Thus, I concede for creation of a public forum.

Tournament: Elkhorn South | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest | Judge: Payton Shudak

Value: Anti-oppression, as defined by protecting the rights of all humans.

Criterion: Minimizing Structural Violence. Minimizing structural violence is essential to reaching anti-oppression; our institutions are key perpetrators of violence upon marginalised groups.

We negate that the The United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers. To clarify, we don’t want any reforms to qualified immunity, we don’t even want to touch anything that deals with the Political. Berlant and Warren will give you reasons why.

Cruel Optimism is the attachment to something that continually hurts us; It’s the want of x but x is what is keeping us from flourishing. We do this because it’s what is normal, because it is familiar.

Berlant 2006 (lauren, professor of literature at the university of chicago, “cruel optimism” in differences pg 24)
In the introduction ... throughout this book.

And Cruel Optimism definitely applies to our relation with the Political. Dr. Warren says that The Political brainwashes us  into a “Hopeful” cycle that repeatedly sustain anti-blackness. Dr. warren explains how the Political tells us to stay for that emancipation is soon to come but black bodies only then find recurring violence in their wake. We need to recognise this structural violence and fixing Qualified Immunity just further propagates the cycle.

Warren 2015   {Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope” p 30-31, We don´t advocate ablist lang}
Throughout this essay ... political hope perpetuates.

The aff’s adherence to reforming Qualified Immunity further reinforces the cruel optimism towards the exclusive Political, therefore reifies the structural violence that the Political inflicts.

Berlant 2006 (lauren, professor of literature at the university of chicago, “cruel optimism” in differences pg 227)
This is why ... of political depression.

And my last card was lost, my bad. It was really in the same vein of above.

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Millard West NT | Judge: Colten White
The topic frames the issue of plice corruption and oversight in the wrong way; rather than approaching the issue of qualified immunity through a lens of incrementalism and reformism, one needs to approach it through the lens of underlying forces that contribute to police corruption and overreach.

"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony." -Kafka

One needs to reject all instances of incrementalism in policy-making, these are short-term methods which ultimately fail. Shaylor writes,
Shaylor, Cassandra, "Reform and Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection", no date
Because the existing ... of contemporary life.

A methodology of decarceration is the only solution to the problems that the prison industrial complex poses; the praxis of the affirmative doesn't go far enough. Shaylor further,
Rather than proposing ... people in prison.

The affirmative holds no way of solving for their claims- the state coopts all instances of reformism to meet their own ends, and a limited approach to limiting qualified immunity will do just that. She writes again,
In many instances ... a vegitative state.

Reformism fails in the context of decarcerations. The plan may win an isolated battle, but will lose the war. Alexander 2012,
Michelle, "New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", 2012
The list could ... in the world.

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Millard West NT | Judge: Colten White

The topic frames the issue of plice corruption and oversight in the wrong way; rather than approaching the issue of qualified immunity through a lens of incrementalism and reformism, one needs to approach it through the lens of underlying forces that contribute to police corruption and overreach.

"Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony." -Kafka

One needs to reject all instances of incrementalism in policy-making, these are short-term methods which ultimately fail. Shaylor writes,

Shaylor, Cassandra, "Reform and Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection", no date
Because the existing ... of contemporary life.

A methodology of decarceration is the only solution to the problems that the prison industrial complex poses; the praxis of the affirmative doesn't go far enough. Shaylor further,

Rather than proposing ... people in prison.

The affirmative holds no way of solving for their claims- the state coopts all instances of reformism to meet their own ends, and a limited approach to limiting qualified immunity will do just that. She writes again,

In many instances ... a vegitative state.

Reformism fails in the context of decarcerations. The plan may win an isolated battle, but will lose the war. Alexander 2012,

Michelle, "New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", 2012
The list could ... in the world.

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: Finals | Opponent: Lincoln East AJ | Judge: Panel
See affirmative citation.

Tournament: Norfolk | Round: 1 | Opponent: East | Judge: M
(See Kafka v1 on the Affirmative page. I added the following cards on the case flow in regards to cooption and the State)

Cooption- two arguments being made here

1. Kafka in 1969

Franz Kafka, ungeheures Ungeziefer, 1969, Parables and Paradoxes, Schocken Books, p.93, accessed http://sculpture-center.org/content/interpretive_statement/LeopardsShortTextFormatted.pdf
Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.

2. Kafka 31

Franz Kafka, ungeheures Ungeziefer, originally published in Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer (Berlin, 1931), republished on Zork, as trans. by Willa and Edwin Muir, http://zork.net/~patty/pattyland/kafka/parables/laws.htm
The very existence ... that one law?

Tournament: Lincoln Southwest | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lincoln East | Judge: -

Interpretation: The affirmative has to ask before round whether all of those in the room are comfortable with spreading occurring

Violation: They didn't

Standards and voters

1. Discourse is necessary regarding their affirmative- they foreclose any ability for bodies that don't meet the ablenormative picture to properly communicate regarding the topic
   2. The practice of spreading without asking effectively assumes that all people within debate are able to comprehend spreading- this upholds ablenormative ideals that people are naturally able to do anything that the affirmative does.
   3. They were literally told in the last round to stop spreading because it upholds an ablenormative ideal of debate, and continued to do it- vote them down because the practice is a recurrent issue that has been called out before

Tournament: Millard West | Round: 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines LB | Judge: Jacob Ferry

Interpretation: Debaters should not spread during the AC.

Violation: Uhhhhhhhh shid! They diddit!

Standards: multiple:

First, being judge-as-educator requires a rejection of ableist mindsets- this causes both in-round meta-debate sorts of changes, as well as changes into personal lives. Reject their discourse by dropping the debater. Beckett writes

Angharad E. Beckett, August 6 2013, Beckett is a part of School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK, Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research, 2015, Vol. 17, No. 1, 7694, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15017419.2013.835278, Anti-oppressive pedagogy and disability: possibilities and challenges
Serious and systemic ... ‘oppressed’ and ‘privileged’.

Second, attacking ableism is necessary for education in the debate space. Without doing so, the academic space is ruined and no education can occur. Hehir 2007,

Hehir 07 (Thomas Hehir is Professor of Practice and Director of the School Leadership Program, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Educational Leadership: “Confronting Ableism.” Published in February, 2007. Accessed July 20th, 2015. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb07/vol64/num05/Confronting-Ableism.aspx)TheFedora
Negative cultural attitudes ... students with disabilities.

Probably an analytic as well, tied to bullshit argument

Tournament: Lincoln Southeast | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fremont JV | Judge: Daniel Russel

I negate the resolution. The lens for evaluating this round should be a focus on the material world instead of academic hypothesising -- we need to focus on real-world impacts rather than ones divorced from reality. That means that we need to examine examples from reality. Nayar 99,

Jayan, Ph.D from the University of Cambridge, Fall, School of Law, University of Warwick Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems “Orders of Inhumanity”, 1999
Located within a ... do we do?

Racist university groups are coming back and stronger than ever before. Hankes 15,

Keegan Hankes WEDNESDAY, FEB 11, 2015 “The new racists on campus: Meet the youth wing of the white nationalist movement”
Late last week ... and hitler sic youth."

More speech is not the answer to all of the hurt; speech reinscribes power. Delgado and Yun 94,

Richard Delgado - Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado. J.D. 1974, University of California, Berkeley. David H. Yun – Member of the Colorado Bar. J.D. 1993, University of Colorado. “Pressure Valves and Bloodied Chickens: An Analysis of Paternalistic Objections to Hate Speech Regulation.” California Law Review. 1994. http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1712andcontext=californialawreview JJN
D. "More Speech"-Talking ... countered by discussion.

Hate speech does real harm. Surprise. Delgado and Stefanic 09,

Richard Delgado - University Professor, Seattle University School of Law; J.D., 1974, University of California, Berkeley. Jean Stefancic – Research Professor, Seattle University School of Law; M.A., 1989, University of San Francisco. “FOUR OBSERVATIONS ABOUT HATE SPEECH.” WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW. 2009. http://wakeforestlawreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Delgado_LawReview_01.09.pdf
II. OBSERVATION NUMBER TWO ... conceptual and necessary.

Universities are fundamentally obligated to be places of tolerant speech and behavior. Byrne 90,

Byrne, J. Peter. "Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University." Geo. LJ 79 (1990): 399, ableist and racist lang. not advocated
The education program ... strongest punitive measures.

Tournament: Lincoln Southeast | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lincoln East JW | Judge: Jacob Bartman
This was the same as Hate Speech but with this added: 

Language both reflects and solidifies various social strata - that means that language is re-inscriptive of power relations. DeLanda writes that,

Manuel DeLanda, Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at The European Graduate School and a lecturer in Architecture at Princeton University, “A THOUSAND YEARS OF NONLINEAR HISTORY”, Chapter 3: MEMES AND NORMS, Linguistic History: 1000 - 1700 A.D., pages 183-186, 1997, revised 2014 edition
Human langauges are ... linguist M.L. Samuels:

(i 3 the chapter title. plz send me memes, anyone reading this)

Tournament: Westside | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest AH | Judge: Colten White
I want our ... hope, never fear.
- Michelle Obama, final speech as FLOTUS
BBC News, Facebook video, "Being your First Lady has been the greatest honour of my life" - Michelle Obama ends her final official speech in tears, yesterday, 6 Jan 2017

Our thesis holds that public colleges and universities ought restrict injurious speech; not speech that hinders the freedom of movement of ideas, but that which causes realized harm. Lawrence,

Charles R. Lawrence, III, If He Hollers Let Him Go: Regulating Racist Speech on Campus, Duke Law Journal, Vol. 1990, No. 3, Frontiers of Legal Thought II. The New First Amendment (Jun., 1990), pp. 431-483, 1990
The proposed Stanford ... the speech altogether.1

(A narrative of my experiences within debate) ... How can we be hopeful when we are attacked? Focused? Determined? Empowered?

The truth of the matter is that misgendering excludes trans people from the educational space; do Michelle’s words fall on ears not listening? We need to be in the educational space to be open to everyone, and for the violence to stop. Haber-Curran,

Paige Haber-Curran is assistant professor and program coordinator for the Student Affairs in Higher Education master’s program at Texas State University, 2016 otherwise no date, http://www.theses.xlibx.info/t1-other1/1020284-7-table-contents-table-contents-mission-statement-and-goals-st.php
The campus climates ... retaining trans* students.

Thus, the counterplan: Public universities and colleges should not restrict any constitutionally protected speech, except for speech that misgenders students.

And then I flip to a random page in Jennifer Espinoza's book There Should be Flowers and read a poem from there.

Tournament: Lincoln East | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest RG | Judge: Samson
(this is just the new evidence)

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza,

Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, queen, posts cute dog pictures, just got engaged, super nice and WOW good!, trans woman poet living in California. She has been featured in The Offing, PEN America, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere; in addition, she was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem I DREAM OF HORSES EATING COPS. Her full-length collection THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS was recently published by Civil Coping Mechanisms, https://thejamesfrancoreview.com/2016/11/15/poetry-by-joshua-jennifer-espinoza/, 2016
THE THREAT / the threat was ... become something / else

Tournament: Fremont | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest RJ | Judge: XX
This is a very personal argument that I made regarding eulogising certain people ... if you'd like the tags and analytics feel free to contact me personally. Here are the citations and the original CP text.

Rest in power Monica Loera. 1 year ago today. Beautiful smile.

Jeremy Fernando, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, stories … names, Writing Death, page 57, 2011

Jeremy Fernando, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, stories … names, Writing Death, page 51, 2011, ableist lang = not cool

Jeremy Fernando, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, stories … names, Writing Death, page 45, 2011

Jeremy Fernando, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, stories … names, Writing Death, page 53, 2011

Jeremy Fernando, Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, get over it, Writing Death, page 82, 2011

CP: Colleges and universities should not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except that which is an affront to eulogising.