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0- Contact InfoTournament: x | Round: Quads | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 11/2/16 |
0- Notice On DisclosureTournament: xxxxx | Round: Finals | Opponent: xxx | Judge: xxx | 2/16/17 |
0- Notice On FlippingTournament: xxx | Round: Triples | Opponent: xxx | Judge: xxx Also, I've had bad experiences with being bullied during a flip. I would prefer if you yourself participated in the flip, not your coach. | 2/28/17 |
0- Read MeTournament: xxxx | Round: Quads | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 11/2/16 |
1- Disclose or LoseTournament: xxxx | Round: Quads | Opponent: Hopefully not you ecksdee | Judge: x | 11/2/16 |
1- Niemi KTournament: Alta | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lynbrook NA | Judge: Sean Fee They assume that all grammar is universal forming an entrance barrier to debate and designating all other forms of English incompetent.Niemi 15: Rebar Niemi "Nebel T: I Sip That" Premier debate 9/22/15 http://premierdebatetoday.com/2015/09/22/nebel-t-i-sip-it/comment-page-1/~~#comment-3207** Also, debate is a speech act – debaters should be held accountable for their discourse in round. You can't sever out of your ideology.Vincent 13: Christopher Vincent, 2013 Debate Coach, former college NDT debater "Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate" http://victorybriefs.com/vbd/2013/10/re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate** | 12/4/16 |
JanFeb- Rape Culture ACTournament: Stanford | Round: Quarters | Opponent: North Hollywood JS | Judge: Arjun Tambe, John Overing, Ellen Ivens-Duran CONTENT WARNING: THE AC TALKS ABOUT RAPE. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE AC THAT IS ESPECIALLY DESCRIPTIVE HOWEVER IT DOES RECOGNIZE THAT IT IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE TO DISCUSS.
1ACColleges are silencing people speaking out about campus rape.Callie Beusman, 14, Colleges Silence and Fire Faculty Who Speak Out About Rape, 6-13-2014, Jezebel, http://jezebel.com/colleges-silence-and-fire-faculty-who-speak-out-about-r-1586169489 Student and faculty activism is key to ending campus rape.Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, 15, The Hunting Ground : Stop Victim Blaming and End Campus Rape, 3-26-2015, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-susan-brooks-thistlethwaite/the-hunting-ground-stop-victim-blaming-and-end-campus-rape_b_6943488.html Censorship is fundamentally grounded in patriarchy. Especially exacerbated in the instance of rape culture. Free speech is key to start up movements.Strossen 2k, Nadine. Defending pornography: Free speech, sex, and the fight for women's rights. NYU Press, 2000. KWo brackets for grammar* Plan Text: Public college and universities ought not restrict constitutionally protected speech about sexual assault.Campus rape is increasing in the status quo and becomes a form of structural violence. The affs identification and education on the issue is uniquely key to preventing it.Kelly Wallace, Cnn, 15, Study: 23 of women sexually assaulted in college, 9-23-2015, CNN, http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/22/health/campus-sexual-assault-new-large-survey/ (CNN) brackets for clarity Being passive about rape culture causes violence and oppression. Speaking out is key to resist the patriarchy.Taslitz 99 ~Andrew, Professor, Howard Unviersity School of Law, former Assistant District Attorney, Philadelphia, PA~, "Condemning the Racist Personality: Why the Critics of Hate Crimes Legislation Are Wrong", Boston College Law Review, Vol. 40, May 1999~ Brackets in original And social injustice is the root cause of violence.Scheper-Hughes 4 (Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn) (Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22) The role of the judge must resist the imposition of dominant ideology on marginalized groups in educational spaces. TRIFONAS 03:Trifonas, Peter. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE. New York, London. 2003. The ballot is key - just like voting in system of government, casting a ballot in a debate is an endorsement of material change. Thus, the judge is not just the arbiter of who wins the debate, but is recognized as an agent implementing change on a micropolitical level.Foucault 81 Michel, 1981, an interview with Libération, "Is it really important to think?" *brackets in original The role of the ballot is to endorse the best strategy for rejecting patriarchal institutions in society.Moghadam, Valentine. Feminist scholar and author. 2001. "Violence and Terrorism: Feminist Observations on Islamist Movements, State, and the International System," from Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, vol. 21.1-2, Project Muse. brackets for clarity Debate should surround material consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression.Curry 14 ~Dr. Tommy J; "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014~ | 2/28/17 |
JanFeb- Surveillance ACTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley PT | Judge: Ellen Ivens-Duran FramingThe role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who better performatively and methodologically resists surveillance. CX checks any ambiguities.The surveillance state corrupts scholarship through "thoughtcrime" – confronting this is a prior questionSteinberg 13 ~R. Lila Steinberg, PhD student at UCLA; 3-8-2013; "The Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14839-the-premise-of-digital-surveillance-precludes-scholarship~~ JC Surveillance has invaded public pedagogy, coopting dissent, debate, and critical dialogue, resistance is key to avoid global violenceGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ "The practice of surveillance is both separate and unequal." Minority groups represent the bulk of those targetedGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ ellipses included in original article It's try or die – the surveillance state ensures genocide and extinctionSaul 15 ~Quincy, Author, Editor, and Founder of Ecosocialist Horizons, March 23, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Truth Out, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29664-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse~~ The ballot is key - just like voting in system of government, casting a ballot in a debate is an endorsement of material change. Thus, the judge is not just the arbiter of who wins the debate, but is recognized as an agent implementing change on a micropolitical level.Foucault 81 Michel, 1981, an interview with Libération, "Is it really important to think?" *brackets in original Debate should surround material consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression.Curry 14 ~Dr. Tommy J; "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014~ ContentionThe censorship of online speech enables universities to monitor their students and staff – everything from emails and social media to campus whereabouts. This draws parallels to NSA surveillance, as universities shut down criticism of the surveillance regime.Perrino 13 ~Nico; 10-22-2013; "Universities: where you go to learn – and be monitored"; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/online-social-media-surveillance-university-campuses~~ JC This debate should center around online speech – it's the core controversy of the topicCreeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC Thus, I affirm: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected online speech.Creeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC The aff solves:1~ Resisting surveillance in education causes a widespread culture shiftTaylor 13 ~Emmeline Taylor; "Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education" (Crime Prevention and Security Management); 2013~ JC 2~ Surveillance uniquely threatens students' freedoms. Criticizing and protesting surveillance both on campus and in debate is vital to civic engagement and social change.Glaser 14 — April Glaser, Staff Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014 ("17 Student Groups Pen Open Letters on the Toxicity of Mass Surveillance to Academic Freedom," Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 9th, Available Online at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/students-against-surveillance-17-university-groups-pen-open-letters-toxicity-mass) Students are key – no one else will oppose surveillance.Tempera 13 — Jackie Tempera, Summer USA Today Collegiate Correspondent, Journalism Student at Emerson College, 2013 ("Viewpoint: Where are the college students protesting NSA surveillance?," USA Today, June 19th, Available Online at http://college.usatoday.com/2013/06/19/opinion-where-are-the-college-students-protesting-nsa-surveillance/) 3~ The AFF's critical interrogation and analyses of surveillance is crucial to analyzing the way in which daily life and the body itself has become a feature of securitization—our dissent functions as an unravelling and exposure of dominant power relationsGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ Pedagogical praxis is key – translating critique into action is key to making education central in political effectiveness.Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ | 1/14/17 |
JanFeb- Surveillance AC v2Tournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mountain View DZ | Judge: Shayne Walton 1ACFramingThe role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who better performatively and methodologically resists surveillance.The surveillance state corrupts scholarship through "thoughtcrime" – confronting this is a prior questionSteinberg 13 ~R. Lila Steinberg, PhD student at UCLA; 3-8-2013; "fThe Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14839-the-premise-of-digital-surveillance-precludes-scholarship~~ JC Surveillance has invaded public pedagogy, coopting dissent, debate, and critical dialogue, resistance is key to avoid global violenceGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ "The practice of surveillance is both separate and unequal." Minority groups represent the bulk of those targetedGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ ellipses included in original article It's try or die – the surveillance state ensures genocide and extinctionSaul 15 ~Quincy, Author, Editor, and Founder of Ecosocialist Horizons, March 23, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Truth Out, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29664-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse~~ The ballot is key - just like voting in system of government, casting a ballot in a debate is an endorsement of material change. Thus, the judge is not just the arbiter of who wins the debate, but is recognized as an agent implementing change on a micropolitical level.Foucault 81 Michel, 1981, an interview with Libération, "Is it really important to think?" *brackets in original Debate should surround material consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression.Curry 14 ~Dr. Tommy J; "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014~ OffenseThis debate should center around online speech – it's the core controversy of the topicCreeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC Thus the plan – Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected online speech.Creeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC The censorship of online speech enables universities to monitor their students and staff – everything from emails and social media to campus whereabouts. This draws parallels to NSA surveillance, as universities shut down criticism of the surveillance regime.Perrino 13 ~Nico; 10-22-2013; "Universities: where you go to learn – and be monitored"; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/online-social-media-surveillance-university-campuses~~ JC Speech restriction sets a dangerous precedent that enables endless exceptions to the First Amendment.White 16 ~Ken White (attorney), 11-29-2016, "Lawsplainer: Why Flag Burning Matters, And How It Relates To Crush Videos", https://www.popehat.com/2016/11/29/lawsplainer-why-flag-burning-matters-and-how-it-relates-to-crush-videos/~~ Resisting surveillance in education causes a widespread culture shiftTaylor 13 ~Emmeline Taylor; "Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education" (Crime Prevention and Security Management); 2013~ JC Surveillance uniquely threatens students' freedoms. Criticizing and protesting surveillance both on campus and in debate is vital to civic engagement and social change.Glaser 14 — April Glaser, Staff Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014 ("17 Student Groups Pen Open Letters on the Toxicity of Mass Surveillance to Academic Freedom," Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 9th, Available Online at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/students-against-surveillance-17-university-groups-pen-open-letters-toxicity-mass) The AFF's critical interrogation and analyses of surveillance is crucial to analyzing the way in which daily life and the body itself has become a feature of securitization—our dissent functions as an unravelling and exposure of dominant power relationsGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ bracketed for grammar Pedagogical praxis is key – translating critique into action is key to making education central in political effectiveness.Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ | 2/23/17 |
JanFeb- Surveillance AC v3Tournament: Stanford | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JN | Judge: Sean Fee, Terrence Lonam, Tim Pollard FramingThe role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who better performatively and methodologically resists surveillance from the position of the undercommons.The surveillance state corrupts scholarship through "thoughtcrime" – confronting this is a prior questionSteinberg 13 ~R. Lila Steinberg, PhD student at UCLA; 3-8-2013; "fThe Premise of Digital Surveillance Precludes Scholarship"; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14839-the-premise-of-digital-surveillance-precludes-scholarship~~ JC Surveillance has invaded public pedagogy, coopting dissent, debate, and critical dialogue, resistance is key to avoid global violenceGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ "The practice of surveillance is both separate and unequal." Minority groups represent the bulk of those targetedGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ ellipses included in original article It's try or die – the surveillance state ensures genocide and extinctionSaul 15 ~Quincy, Author, Editor, and Founder of Ecosocialist Horizons, March 23, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Truth Out, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/29664-the-four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse~~ The ballot is key - just like voting in system of government, casting a ballot in a debate is an endorsement of material change. Thus, the judge is not just the arbiter of who wins the debate, but is recognized as an agent implementing change on a micropolitical level.Foucault 81 Michel, 1981, an interview with Libération, "Is it really important to think?" *brackets in original Debate should surround material consequences—ideal theories ignore the concrete nature of the world and legitimize oppression.Curry 14 ~Dr. Tommy J; "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014~ OffenseThis debate should center around online speech – it's the core controversy of the topicCreeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC Thus the plan – Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected online speech.Creeley and Lukianoff 11 ~Will Creeley – Director of Legal and Public Advocacy, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2006; B.A., New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 2003. Greg Lukianoff – President, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. J.D., Stanford Law School, 2000; B.A., American University, 1996.; "NEW MEDIA, OLD PRINCIPLES: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; 5/13/2011; https://www.thefire.org/pdfs/e674c6c95dec401e5a62c9bbc409112c.pdf~~ JC The censorship of online speech enables universities to monitor their students and staff – everything from emails and social media to campus whereabouts. This draws parallels to NSA surveillance, as universities shut down criticism of the surveillance regime.Perrino 13 ~Nico; 10-22-2013; "Universities: where you go to learn – and be monitored"; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/online-social-media-surveillance-university-campuses~~ JC Speech restriction sets a dangerous precedent that enables endless exceptions to the First Amendment.White 16 ~Ken White (attorney), 11-29-2016, "Lawsplainer: Why Flag Burning Matters, And How It Relates To Crush Videos", https://www.popehat.com/2016/11/29/lawsplainer-why-flag-burning-matters-and-how-it-relates-to-crush-videos/~~ Resisting surveillance in education causes a widespread culture shiftTaylor 13 ~Emmeline Taylor; "Surveillance Schools: Security, Discipline and Control in Contemporary Education" (Crime Prevention and Security Management); 2013~ JC Surveillance uniquely threatens students' freedoms. Criticizing and protesting surveillance both on campus and in debate is vital to civic engagement and social change.Glaser 14 — April Glaser, Staff Activist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014 ("17 Student Groups Pen Open Letters on the Toxicity of Mass Surveillance to Academic Freedom," Electronic Frontier Foundation, June 9th, Available Online at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/students-against-surveillance-17-university-groups-pen-open-letters-toxicity-mass) The AFF's critical interrogation and analyses of surveillance is crucial to analyzing the way in which daily life and the body itself has become a feature of securitization—our dissent functions as an unravelling and exposure of dominant power relationsGiroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ bracketed for grammar Pedagogical praxis is key – translating critique into action is key to making education central in political effectiveness.Giroux 14 Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Ryerson University ~Henry, "Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State," Truthout, February 10, 2014, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21656-totalitarian-paranoia-in-the-post-orwellian-surveillance-state~~ | 2/13/17 |
NovDec- Biopower ACTournament: Damus | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake WB | Judge: Olivia Panchal Part 1- Framing.The ROB is to challenge sovereign representations. This is key to preventing violence.Agamben 2K (Giorgio, professor of philosophy at the College International de Philosophie in Paris, Means Without End: Notes on Politics, p. 93-95) ED Exposition is the location of politics. If there is no ani¬mal politics, that AND, Discursive autonomy is a prior question. Complacency in language render us unintelligible. | 11/6/16 |
NovDec- Biopower Add-OnTournament: Alta | Round: Quads | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 12/5/16 |
NovDec- Schools ACTournament: Damus | Round: 6 | Opponent: Loyola BJ | Judge: Thomas Angus 1 – War Against KidsPolice have invaded schools and momentum for funding is still gaining – this has led to increasing use of force and abuse of students – the law is not clearly established so SROs will always get immunityPotter 15 ~GS Potter; Community activist and educator with a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Washington.; 3-16-2015; "How Police Became Part of the Public School System and How to Get Them Out"; http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/33706-how-police-became-part-of-the-public-school-system-and-how-to-get-them-out~~ JC SRO misconduct is rampant – students are choked, tasered, and shot to death – it's try or die for the affLee 15 ~Jaeah; Jaeah is a former reporter at Mother Jones. Her writings have appeared in The Atlantic, the Guardian, Wired, Christian Science Monitor, Global Post, Huffington Post, Talking Points Memo, and Grist.; JUL. 14, 2015; "Chokeholds, brain injuries, beatings: Here's what happens when school cops go bad"; http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/police-school-resource-officers-k-12-misconduct-violence~~ JC Tasers prove – SROs are brutalKlein 8/1 ~Rebecca; Editor of education news for The Huffington Post; 8-1-2016; "School-Based Police Are Using Tasers on Students"; http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37338-set-to-stun~~ JC The police state oppresses children in schoolsGiroux 15 ~Henry A.; 11-11-2015; McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. He also is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University; "Terrorizing Students: The Criminalization of Children in the US Police State"; http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33604-terrorizing-students-the-criminalization-of-children-in-the-us-police-state~~ JC 2 – PlanThe United States will abolish qualified immunity for school resource officersThe plan is a catalyst for further reformDe Stefan 16 Lindsey De Stefan (J.D. Candidate, 2017, Seton Hall University School of Law). "No Man Is Above the Law and No Man Is Below It:" How Qualified Immunity Reform Could Create Accountability and Curb Widespread Police Misconduct" (2016). Law School Student Scholarship. Paper 850. http://scholarship.shu.edu/student_scholarship/850 JC Wrongdoing SROs are held accountable – litigation affects conduct regardless of indemnificationRosen 5 Michael M. Rosen (Attorney in San Diego at Fish and Richardson PC, an intellectual property law firm; JD, Harvard Law). "A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement." 35GoldenGateU.L.Rev. (2005). http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev/vol35/iss2/2 QI distorts civil rights law – it makes it so the law will never be clearly establishedHassel 99 ~Diana; Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Roger Williams University School of Law; "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity"; Missouri Law Review (1999); Available at: http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol64/iss1/9~~ JC Legal actions affect culture-civil rights movement provesMasket 15 SETH MASKET, OCT 5, 2015, "You Can Change Laws Without Changing Hearts and Minds" http://www.psmag.com/politics-and-law/you-can-change-laws-without-changing-hearts-and-minds 3 – FramingThe judge must resist the imposition of dominant ideology on marginalized groups in educational spaces. TRIFONAS 03:Trifonas, Peter. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE. New York, London. 2003. And, current discourse on young people is violent – they are viewed as criminals, public disorders that must be dealt with, and resources for markets. Solving for children's oppression accesses other forms of oppression. GIROUX 15:Henry A. Giroux | Youth in Authoritarian Times: Challenging Neoliberalism's Politics of Disposability Wednesday, 21 October 2015 00:00 By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis Thus, the role of the ballot and judge is to reject oppression with a focus on the youth. More warrants:1. Children are particularly excluded and not considered relevant by academics, allowing willful ignorance of violence that costs them their lives. Only a focus on children as an important group can stop systemic structural violence – otherwise all oppression towards them is rendered unseen. GIROUX 2K:Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, and the Loss of Innocence Henry A. Giroux. jac 20.1 (2000) And, Addressing the material conditions for violence specifically with children is required for the success of symbolic critique. Pure critique is not enough – it must be combined into tangible policy action. GIROUX 2:Public Pedagogy and the Responsibility of Intellectuals: Youth, Littleton, and the Loss of Innocence Henry A. Giroux. jac 20.1 (2000) 2. Debate is a unique forum for high-schooler's to advocate for children – children are denied participation due to the current structure of society. GODWIN 11:Children's Oppression, Rights and Liberation by Samantha Godwin 2011 | 11/8/16 |
SeptOct- Love AC v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Albany EK | Judge: Michael Harris Ethical theorizing can only occur if we fix the oppression of voices.Medina : José Medina ~Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt~ "Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism", Foucault Studies No. 12 (2011), 9-35 AND, normative theories of oppression establish misguided binaries between the oppressor and the oppressed.bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE AND, while few say blatantly offensive things, these phenomena still exist in our psyche. This dominator thinking extends to the way we approach oppression. Look towards interlocking systems to avoid contradictions that embrace the same domination criticized.hooks 2: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE AND, thus we must combat oppression through the lens of the white supremacist capitalist patriarch, or WSCP. Any other method that isn't as intersectional leads to the oppression of omitted sources of oppression.hooks 3: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE AND, embracing the WSCP theory of oppression means embracing love.Nienhuis: "Revolutionary Independence," Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, Nancy Nienhuis, 2009; Accessed 4/26/16; PE AND, domination in the absence of love is the root cause of oppression.hooks 4: bell hooks; "Love as a Practice of Freedom"; Accessed 4/19/16; PE Thus the standard is consistency with an ethic of love.Prefer because embracing an ethic of love and community is the only way we can liberate society to create political movements. Empirics from the Civil Rights Movement prove.hooks 5: "Love as the Practice of Freedom" bell hooks The Role of the Ballot is to embrace an ethic of love.I define love as agápe, or having authentic care and empathy for one another. We don't have to consider every person we meet or know as a friend, but we must fundamentally care for each other in the face of great strife. Loves is the solution to all forms of dominator thinking, meaning that anti-ethical approaches fail. First, nuclear material leads to proliferation of nuclear weaponsGreenPeace 06 "Nuclear Power-Unsustainable, Uneconomic, Dirty and Dangerous." (n.d.): n. pag. GreenPeace. GreenPeace International, 4 May 2006. Web. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2006/6/nuclear-power-unsustainable.pdf. WSM AND, prolif leads to war in Asia because of mistrust among countries.Cimbala, 2013 (Stephen J. Cimbala, "Arms for Uncertainty: Nuclear Weapons in US and Russian Security Policy", Ch. 4, Ashgate Publishing, Ebrary, Accessed 6/26/16, JL @ RKS) | 10/6/16 |
SeptOct- Love AC v2Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Ranch JW | Judge: Jack Coyle Achieving moral truths are only possible if everything has epistemic respect.Medina : José Medina ~Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt~ "Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism", Foucault Studies No. 12 (2011), 9-35 ED AND, normative theories of oppression establish false binaries between the oppressor and the oppressed.bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; Professor at Yale and taught at USC PE AND, a politics of accountability acknowledges victimization and reveals responsibilities. This is the only way in which we can resist the oppressor; anything else reentrenches the oppression.Kappeler, Susanne. The will to violence : the politics of personal behaviour / Susanne Kappeler Polity Cambridge, UK 1995 ED AND, oppression does not occur in a vacuum. It draws on other forms of oppression that form interlocking systems, thus we need to have interlocking systems of resistance to avoid contradictions.hooks 2: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE AND, thus viewing oppression through the model of the white supremacist capitalist patriarch, or WSCP is a prior question to combating oppression. Identity isn't a dichotomy so interlocking systems are necessary.hooks 3: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE AND, embracing the WSCP theory of oppression means it's going to be all about love. | 10/9/16 |
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