Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Malborough SD | Judge: Rebecca Kuang
Structural violence transcends ethics- it biases our thought processes to exclude others and consider violence acceptable. Winter and Leighton 99
Deborah DuNann Winter (Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology) and Dana C. Leighton (PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) “Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century.”
Finally, to recognize...to reduce it.
Structural violence is the most important impact – the marginalized are too often ignored in everyday decision-making, exacerbating their exclusion. Structural violence comes before moral theories because it predetermines the moral agency of oppressed actors as irrelevant. Winter and Leighton 991
Direct violence is...normal cognitive processes.
Thus, the standard is minimizing structural oppression.
Debate should deal with questions of real-world consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression. Curry 14
Despite the pronouncement...contemporary moral parameters.
Ideal theory destroys practical application of ethics. Prefer non-ideal theory as it accounts for structural conditions. Mills 3
Mills, C. W. (2009), Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls. The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 47: 161–184
Now how can...ever did arrive.
In order to successfully address structural violence we need to combine critique with action.
Giroux 13 Giroux, Henry. "Critique Is Not Enough: Teaching and Learning with Henry Giroux." September 2013
Also, young people...forward with this.
Educational spaces like debate are inherently political. We should use this space to challenge the neoliberal order that detaches ourselves from the possibility of social change.
Giroux ’04: Giroux, Henry A. "Public pedagogy and the politics of neo-liberalism: Making the political more pedagogical." Policy Futures in Education 2.3-4 (2004): 494-503.
In spite of...and collective resistance.
Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debate who best methodologically challenges structural violence.
Smith ’13: (Elijah Smith. “A Conversation in Ruins: Race and Black Participation in Lincoln Douglas Debate.” Vbriefly. September 6, 2013FT)
At every tournament...with liberatory potential.
In the status quo, constitutionally protected speech is being restricted by colleges. Moore ‘16
Social Studies Research and Practice www.socstrp.org Volume 11 Number 1 112 Spring 2016 You Cannot Say That in American Schools: Attacks on the First Amendment James R. Moore Cleveland State University
The first amendment...prohibit protected speech”
Contention
Contention 1 is censorship.
Colleges are incentivized to censor their students. Sevcenko 16
https://www.thefire.org/email-congress-about-campus-censorship-today/
Nevertheless, colleges and...censoring student speech.
Speech codes give more power to the powerful and less power to minorities. Friedersdorf 16 Conor Friedersdorf 16 (a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs; the founding editor of The Best of Journalism) “The Glaring Evidence That Free Speech Is Threatened on Campus” The Atlantic, March 4, 2016. http:www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-glaring-evidence-that-free-speech-is-threatened-on-campus/471825/
At a recent Intelligence...will thank them.
Silencing problematic speech legitimates and disseminates it. Rosenbloom 11
Oliver Rosenbloom 11 (Summer Intern @ FIRE), "Can a College that Protects Free Speech be ‘Gay-Friendly’?", Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 07/26/2011, https:www.thefire.org/can-a-college-that-protects-free-speech-be-gay-friendly/
That’s a trade-off...are complementary values.
Speech codes are policy failures and increase racism . Friedersdorf 15
Conor Friedersdorf 15, 12-10-2015, "The Lessons of Bygone Free-Speech Fights," Atlantic, http:www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/12/what-student-activists-can-learn-from-bygone-free-speech-fights/419178/
He was writing...behalf of blacks.”