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CP Text: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought to ban hate speech.
Competition: The counterplan is mutually exclusive to the aff.

Solvency: Other countries show this has worked.
Delgado  1999
Charles Inglis Thomson Professor of Law, University of Colorado and David Yun JD, University of Colorado, “The Neo-conservative Case Against Hate- Speech Regulation- Lively, D’souza, Gates, Carter, and the Toughlove Crowd,” 1999
Moreover, success is more ... the hate-speech movement.

NET BENEFITS:

First, hate speech harms minority groups, creating an inescapable structural violence towards those it oppresses.

Garrett 02
(Deanna Garrett, went to UVA and is at The University of Vermont – “Silenced Voices: Hate Speech Codes on Campus” - 2002)

 Students at The University of Vermont ... person by another" (p. 70).

College students want speech codes that ban offensive speech

Griswold 16
(Writer for MediaIte – “Two-Thirds of College Students Support Banning ‘Intentionally Offensive’ Speech on Campus”

But a find …  “upsetting or offensive.”

Speech codes that ban hate speech allow for better education for all groups

Posner 15
(Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is author of The Twilight of International Human Rights Law). “Universities Are Right—and Within Their Rights—to Crack Down on Speech and Behavior.” Slate. 12 February 2015.  

Teaching is tricky ... with different rules.

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International law has banned hate speech

Matsuda 89 (Assoc. Prof. of Law, U of Hawaii – “Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim’s Story,” Michigan Law Review, 1989.

The international community ... of eliminating discrimination.

US adherence to i-law concerning hate speech is key to international human rights credibility.

Cohen 15 (Tanya, Thought Catalog – “Its time to bring the hammer down on hate speech in the U.S.” – 2015)

Recent scandals involving ... the world is.

International credibility solves multiple scenarios for extinction.

Nye/Armitage 07 (Prof. @ Harvard and 13th US Deputy Sec. of State – “CSIS Reports – A Smarter, More Secure America,” – 2007)

Soft power is ... will to fight.

Extinction dwarfs all other impact calculus – you must treat the risk of extinction as morally equivalent to its certainty

Schell 82 (Jonathan, Visiting fellow at Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, “Fate of the Earth” – 1982)

On the other ... and to ourselves.

Extinction is an incomparable evil—nothing can outweigh it and we have a moral obligation not to super-kill ourselves

Rolston 98 (Prof. of Phil. CSU, “Environmental Philsophy” 1998)

“Every extinction is” ... species, without superjustification.