Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: Parker Whitfil | Judge: Tinuola Dada

The affirmatives use of fiat to "solves" for social problems is a Utopian fantasy that stigmatizes those who do not conform to their vision of the future. Stavrakakis

Stavrakakis, Yannis. Thinking the Political : Lacan and the Political (1). London, GB: Routledge, 1999. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 1 October 2016.
In order to answer these questions it is crucial to enumerate the conditions of possibility
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functioning society as a highly problematic area (seminar of 18 June 1958).

Their endorsement of a utopian fantasy distances debate from reality and allows debaters to ignore the larger power structures that make their advocacies impossible meaning their advocacy is intellectually bankrupt. Spurlock and Spanos 1

 ~William V. Spanos 2011 Kdebate.com Interview,William V. Spanos is a highly acclaimed author, World War II Veteran, POW at Dresden, distinguished professor of English and Comparative Literature at the SUNY Binghamton and well known in the competitive world of high school and intercollegiate academic debate.. William V. Spanos: An Interested Debate Inquiry An interview with Christopher Spurlock, http://kdebate.com/spanos.html~~
The reason I asked you that question is because I've always thought that the debate
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parties but also its fundamental indifference to the plight of those who don't count

The impact is violence – Debaters take the skills they learn in debate to politics and replicate them in the real world. Spurlock and Spanos 2.

The danger of being a total insider is that the eye of such a person
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people to change the world rather than to reproduce it.

The alternative is to not play the game- we advocate for a model of debate that does not distance us from reality in favor of a debate in which we explore how to connect the resolution to our own personal experience to critique the power strucutres the affirmative ignores through fiat. Polson:

One of the ways performance debaters see themselves doing
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do, even if you pretend to do something. (Kenneth,  interview, p. 19)

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who advocates for the best method of changing the way in which we discuss the resolution. The NC is taking a stance against the oppressive discourse the 1AC perpetuates. Pretending that debate is merely a game is a failure to acknowledge our privilege and will perpetuate a system of exclusion in the real world. Wise

~White Like Me : Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (09 January 2005) by Tim Wise~
In this way, competitive debate reinforces whiteness and affluence as normative conditions, and
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ideas have proven to be for the vast majority of the planet's inhabitants.