Tournament: blake | Round: 4 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
A. Interpretation: debaters must disclose all broken positions (ACs, NCs, DAs, CPs, and kritiks) on the NDCA LD wiki under their own name with cites, tags, and first three and last three words of all cards read at least an hour before the round begins.

Tournament: blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Tournament: blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: na | Judge: na
Adopting the perspective of the oppressed is the only way to account for dominant ideologies that skew our thought processes.
Mills 5 Charles W. Mills (John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy) ““Ideal Theory” as Ideology” Hypatia vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 2005) JW
Now what distinguishes …the social order.

Inequality creates flawed epistemic conclusions, making normative decision making impossible.
Medina 11 Medina, J. (2011). Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism. Foucault Studies, 1(12), 9–35
Foucault invites us …open to contestation.

Structural violence excludes individuals from moral calculus—rejecting it comes first.
Winter and Leighton 99 Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5)
Finally, to recognize …to reduce it.

Trust your basic intuition that racism is bad. An assumption otherwise makes debate unsafe.
Teehan 14 Ryan Teehan (qualified to 2014 TOC) Comment on “2014 Tournament of Champions Student Protest” NSD Update April 26th 2014 http://nsdupdate.com/2014/04/26/nsd-update-coverage-toc-2014/
Honestly, I don't …has actual repercussions.
The debate space is uniquely key to promote change.
Trifonas ‘3 Peter Trifonas “Pedagogies of Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Change” RoutledgeFalmer 2003
Just as objective …ends of schooling.

Text:Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to support safe spaces for marginalized groups
Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to support safe spaces for marginalized groups
Marginalized group safe spaces are key to combating privilege and resisting oppressive structures
Ansari ’15  Aeman Ansari: A fourth-year journalism student at Ryerson University interested in representations of minorities in mainstream media.; 03/18/2015; “Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People”; http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/aeman-ansari/ethnic-safe-spaces_b_6897176.html
It's not just …broader social change.

These spaces are not segregationist, instead they defend alternate perspectives to the norm
Ansari 2  Aeman Ansari: A fourth-year journalism student at Ryerson University interested in representations of minorities in mainstream media.; 03/18/2015; “Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People”; http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/aeman-ansari/ethnic-safe-spaces_b_6897176.html
Segregation was imposed …they deserve respect.

Discriminated against students use minority only spaces as a means of self-preservation
Barrett ’16 SUMMARIZES: James Barrett, freelance reporter and writer;  August 10, 2016; http://www.dailywire.com/news/8259/poc-only-college-students-now-openly-refusing-live-james-barrett
"People of color …safe for me?"

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Safe spaces restrict freedom of speech
FIRE ’16 EXPLAINS: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (Free speech watchdog), 2016, https://www.thefire.org/law-experts-college-safe-spaces-unsafe-for-free-speech/
College “safe spaces,” …Constitutional law experts.

Safe spaces are needed to protect survivors and minorities from racial attacks
Pickett ’16 RaeAnn Pickett is senior director of communications and public Affairs at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health and a Ms. Foundation Public Voices Fellows; Aug. 31, 2016; Time Magazine; “Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces Are Necessary”; http://time.com/4471806/trigger-warnings-safe-spaces/
In fact, the …intersection of both.

Safe spaces are needed to check against the omnipresent hate rhetoric of the college system
Zheng ’15 Lily Zheng: columnist and reporter, March 29 2015, “In defense of safe spaces”, The Stanford Daily, http://www.stanforddaily.com/2015/03/29/in-defense-of-safe-spaces/
Shulevitz quite observantly …pick our battles.

Safe spaces are a prerequisite to inclusivity
Schapiro ’16 Morton Schapiro is president of Northwestern University; January 15, 2016; “I’m Northwestern’s president. Here’s why safe spaces for students are important.”; Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-create-inclusive-campus-communities-first-create-safe-places/2016/01/15/069f3a66-bb94-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?utm_term=.d75d70eaf2ab
And that brings …group feel safe. 

Safe spaces are inclusive diverse communities that inherently strip away the pretense of normalcy
White ’16 Anne-Laure White is an undergraduate at Columbia University and a former intern at Dissent; April 25, 2016; “The case for safe spaces”; https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/free-speech-campus-defense-safe-spaces
The feminists of …sense of self.