Tournament: Stanford | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cupertino HK | Judge: Katie Hughes

The 1ACs conceptions of political discourse are militarized by the police state to create a permanent state of emergency.

McLoughlin 12 ~Daniel McLoughlin is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, working on the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. "Giorgio Agamben on Security, Government and the Crisis of Law", Griffith Law Review, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2012, msm~
One of the decisive effects of total war, according to Junger, was the
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prevailing forms of life and close down the possibility of the alternatives emerging. 

Investing in the law as a marker and method for alleviating violence reifies a liberal understanding of freedom which has empirically amplified and cloaked racist violence.

Kandaswamy 12 (Priya, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Mills College "SYMPOSIUM ON EXPLORING POWER, AGENCY and ACTION IN A WORLD OF MOVING FRONTIERS: ARTICLE: THE OBLIGATIONS OF FREEDOM AND THE LIMITS OF LEGAL EQUALITY," 41 Sw. L. Rev. 265/)
Despite a vast array of critiques that have elucidated the ways in which the U
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their perpetuation rather than relying upon an abstract rubric of equality. n.

Biopower is the root cause of racism

Mbembe Research Professor Institute of Social and Economic Research University of Witwatersrand 2008 Achille Foucault in an Age of Terror ed Morton and Bygrave page 156-157
In Foucault's formulation, biopower appears to function through dividing people into those who must
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he says, 'the condition for the acceptability of putting to death'.20 

====Vote negative as an endorsement of the critique's parrhesia—parrhesia opens up points of resistance with its politics of truth-telling. The alternative comes first—it is impossible to have true speech absent it.====
Dyrberg, Torben Bech 14. Foucault on the Politics of Parrhesia. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. doi: 10.1057/9781137368355.0008.
Seen in this light parrhesia designates a political analytics, practice and ethos, which
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, which is amongst other things a way to keep political authorities accountable.

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.