Tournament: woodward | Round: 5 | Opponent: marlborough sd | Judge: david mcginnis
Part 1: Framework
I value morality
The only way to resolve the inevitable conflict that comes with pluralism in our agency and ethics is to embrace that it is in fact inevitable. This requires an agonistic commitment, which recognizes that conflict is inevitable, but frames the other as a legitimate opponent instead of an enemy.
Mouffe 2k Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. “The Democratic Paradox”
"A well-functioning ... basis of civility." (104)
Thus, the standard is promoting agonistic democracy.
Prefer:
Educational spaces must embrace contestation as a condition for resistance. Any attempt to exclude challenges reaffirms imperialism.
Rickert 01 Thomas, “"Hands Up, You're Free": Composition in a Post-Oedipal World”, JacOnline Journal
“This essay will ... our students' lives.
2. Agonism controls the ability for us to engage in activism to solve oppression.
Harrigan 08 Casey, Associate Director of Debate at UGA, Master’s in Communications – Wake Forest U., “A Defense of Switch Side Debate”, Master’s thesis at Wake Forest, Department of Communication, May, pp.43-45
The Relevance Of ... in contemporary society.
The framework is not strictly consequentialist, rather, it cares about creating the structures that allow for agonistic deliberation.
Mouffe 2 Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. “The Democratic Paradox”
"Following that ... forms of argumentation." (95)
Part 2: Advocacy
I defend the resolution as a general principle.
Part 3: Contentions
Censorship on college campuses is being used to stifle democratic thought itself. Sevcenko 16 Catherine Sevcenko, Email Congress about Campus Censorship Today, March 3, 2016, https://www.thefire.org/email-congress-about-campus-censorship-today/
Nevertheless, colleges and ... censoring student speech.
And receptiveness to all forms of expression is key moral progress and a functioning government.
Moore, 16 (James R. Moore, Cleveland State University, Spring 2016, “You Cannot Say That in American Schools: Attacks on the First Amendment,” Social Studies Research and Practice, Vol. 11, No. 1, http://www.socstrpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MS06579_Moore.pdf, Accessed 12-1-2016)
A democracy that ... rational civic participation.
Agonism compels everyone to acknowledge each other’s beliefs as structurally legitimate to have engagement.
Mouffe 2 Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. “The Democratic Paradox”
I submit that .. to express themselves.
Censorship is deconstructive and regressive and turns any criticism – blocking the freedom of speech will only guarantee the domination of current prevailing discursive practices.
Ward 90 ( David V. Ph.D. Professor of Philosophy at Widener University in Pennsylvania. “Library Trends” Philosophical Issues in Censorship and Intellectual Freedom, Volume 39, Nos 1 and 2. Summer/Fall 1990. Pages 86-87)
Second, even if ..expressions of others.
Free speech was written into the constitution explicitly to be a counter-majoritarian right to promote agonistic discourse
Redish and Mollen 09 Martin H. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University School of Law, Abby Marie Mollen, B.A. 2001, J.D. 2008, Northwestern University, “UNDERSTANDING POST'S AND MEIKLEJOHN'S MISTAKES: THE CENTRAL ROLE OF ADVERSARY DEMOCRACY IN THE THEORY OF FREE EXPRESSION,” Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 103, No. 3, 2009
According to Mansbridge.. of free speech.
Redish and Mollen 09 Martin H. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University School of Law, Abby Marie Mollen, B.A. 2001, J.D. 2008, Northwestern University, “UNDERSTANDING POST'S AND MEIKLEJOHN'S MISTAKES: THE CENTRAL ROLE OF ADVERSARY DEMOCRACY IN THE THEORY OF FREE EXPRESSION,” Northwestern University Law Review Vol. 103, No. 3, 2009
Acceptance of the ... all its manifestations.
