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The promotion of free speech as a method of liberation entrenches the notion that free speech is a commodity; its identity and function are analogous to capital in a capitalist economy.
Brown Brown, Wendy. Undoing the demos: Neoliberalism's stealth revolution. MIT Press, 2015.
At times, kennedy … a neoliberal economy.

Neoliberalism frames academic freedom in the status quo. It defines what acceptable behavior is and any resistance by students and faculty against corporate hegemony are tossed out before they can pose a real threat.
Maira Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. "The Imperial University: race, war, and the nation-state." The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50.
Our geopolitical positions—… U.S. university system.11

Capitalism is the root cause of racism; racism masks exploitative capitalism
Young, professor of English at the University of Alabama, 6—Dr. Robert M was a professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.  He passed away in 2010.  (“Putting Materialism back into Race Theory:
Toward a Transformative Theory of Race”  
So, then, what … free development of all"

We must entirely withdraw the logic of capital—individual criticism is key to solve.
Johnston 4
Perhaps the absence …believe in it. 

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Critique of the neoliberal order comes before reform and is key to question the underlying assumptions of the aff.
Giroux American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, “Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy”, Truthout, 28 Feb 2011, BE
At the heart … justice and equality.