Tournament: Bronx | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Xavier Roberts-Gaal | Judge:
A-Interpretation: If either debater proposes an explicit role of the ballot that differs from the conventional truth testing model, he or she must specify how the round ought to play out under that role of the ballot in the AC/NC. To clarify, the role of the ballot must specify:
- How we determine what a legitimate advocacy is under their role of the ballot, i.e. whether topicality constrains each debater’s advocacy.
2. What area of the debate must be warranted, i.e. whether a normative framework needs to determine what counts as oppression
3. What advocacies are acceptable under the role of the ballot.
4. If the debate be driven solely by the flow. For example, a cap K role of the ballot must speak to whether I win if I prove voting for me has out of round benefits to cap whereas my opponent proves the resolution is capitalist. Pre and post fiat impacts must be distinguished.
Their focus on futurism puts value on the ability to reproduce. This creates a real-life stress of preserving humanity, thereby assigning value to sexual being by a pro-genetic ability to propagate the Child to engage in a future. This discursive stress of AC goes to reinforce heteronormativity, and acts as an agent of oppression to the queer. Edelman.
Lee Edelman. “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive” Duke University Press. 2004.
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