Tournament: Shirley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Georgia State Floyd-Finch | Judge: Gordon
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Interpretation—the aff should defend topical change in USFG policy in accordance with the resolution
The text of the rez calls for debate on hypothetical government action – an alternate way to welcome veterans
Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains certain ... to perform the future action that you propose.
You’ve gotta admit you could be wrong – voting aff entrenches opposition and choir-preaching
Talisse 2005 – philosophy professor at Vanderbilt (Robert, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 31.4, “Deliberativist responses to activist challenges”) *note: gendered language in this article refers to arguments made by two specific individuals in an article by Iris Young
Nonetheless, the deliberativist conception ... this, he is unreasonable.
Protest is fruitless – focusing on the technical skills of consolidating power is best
Rothkopf 2013 – taught international affairs and national security studies at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, editor-at-large of Foreign Policy, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he chairs the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy (7/1, David, Foreign Policy, “You Say You Want a Revolution?”, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/07/01/you_say_you_want_a_revolution_street_protests?page=full)
Few things can be as ... or in the Twitterverse.
That outweighs and turns the aff – their form of advocacy ensures that Daniel Boscarino doesn’t get the more that he needed
Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, “Tradition of Debate in North Carolina” in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p. 311
The second major problem ... increasingly complex world.
1NC KRITIK
Globalized capitalism is fueling inequality and destruction on a continually growing scale
Harman 97 Chris Harman 97, Editor of the Socialist Worker 1997 Economics of the madhouse, Pg 99-100
‘A reprise in the early 21st ... has on the lives of the mass of people.
The aff makes it harder to understand and resist that system—we’ll isolate a couple links:
- Experience: emphasizing lived experience obscures the conditions of possibility for that experience. Their pedagogy robs class of explanatory power—that's key to sustainable challenges to the relations of production
Mas'ud Zavarzadeh retired professor of English at Syracuse University jac 23.1 (2003) journal of Advanced Composition Theory
The pedagogy of appearance ... independence and free choice.
Independently turns case—they create attachment to categorical oppression—focus on exclusion from white liberal subjectivity perversely recreates those ideals
Bhambra 10—U Warwick—AND—Victoria Margree—School of Humanities, U Brighton (Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’, http://www.academia.edu/471824/Identity_Politics_and_the_Need_for_a_Tomorrow_)
2 The Reification of Identity We wish to turn now ... its attention to past-based grievances.
2. Individualism: Activism without advocacy is worse than no activism at all—it’s a politics of symbolism that dodges engagement with collective struggles
Chandler 7 – Researcher @ Centre for the Study of Democracy, Chandler. 2007. Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster, Area, Vol. 39, No. 1, p. 118-119
This disjunction between the ... is immediately apparent.
Short term profit-focus necessitated by globalized capitalism corrupts decisionmaking and makes extinction inevitable
Marko 03 (Anarchism and Human Survival: Russell’s problem., May 14, 2003, https://www2.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/68173.html)
There exist three threats to ... because apocalypse is institutionally rational.
We think debate should be a site for contingent struggles beyond the irrefutable Truth of their identity—foregrounding that subjectivity foregrounds an excessively local strategy that hinders collectivist challenges; solves and turns the case, allows us to engage veterans differently
Brown 95—prof at UC Berkeley (Wendy, States of Injury, 47-51)
The postmodern exposure of ... taste for political argument.
Identity arguments are just implicit explanations of social power relations. Identity is never formed by experience alone or some metaphysical status—it’s produced and interpreted in concert with others. Instead of privileging their singular experience, our alt uses collective political commitment as the basis for neogitating differences.
Bhambra 10—U Warwick—AND—Victoria Margree—School of Humanities, U Brighton (Identity Politics and the Need for a ‘Tomorrow’, http://www.academia.edu/471824/Identity_Politics_and_the_Need_for_a_Tomorrow_)
We suggest that ... very real actions, practices and projects.
2NC KRITIK
Ethical decisions require accounting for consequences
Gvosdev 5 – Rhodes scholar, PhD from St. Antony’s College, executive editor of The National Interest (Nikolas, The Value(s) of Realism, SAIS Review 25.1, pmuse, AG)
As the name implies, realists focus ... roundly condemned on moral grounds.
Util good – equality
Cummiskey 90 – Professor of Philosophy, Bates (David, Kantian Consequentialism, Ethics 100.3, p 601-2, p 606, jstor, AG)
We must not obscure ... overriding importance.
The illusion of biopower is just an abstraction of the fundamental basis of social relations, which is labor
Hardt and Negro 2k (Professors, Michael and Antonia “Empire” http://textz.gnutenberg.net/text.php?id=1034709069754 )
The danger of the ... civilization in cooperation.
The perm lets them reformulate commitments to avoid directly challenging capital—that type of “principle harmonization” is a hallmark of neoliberal ideology
Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania http://nonsite.org/editorial/django-unchained-or-the-help-how-cultural-politics-is-worse-than-no-politics-at-all-and-why 2-25-13
Thus star Maggie Gyllenhaal ... cornerstone of neoliberalism’s practical ontology.
We don’t have to win everyone suffers from or experiences capitalism equally—rather, oppression is fundamentally mediated by relations to means of production—history of colonial rule proves our offense and applies directly to their anti-US stance
Dave Hill, teaches at Middlesex University and is Visiting Professor of Critical Education Policy and Equality Studies at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Culturalist and Materialist Explanations of Class and "Race", Cultural Logic 2009 http://clogic.eserver.org/2009/Hill.pdf
In contrast to both Critical ... its attendant class conflict.
The perm nullifies class as a useful means of inquiry—makes the alt superfluous through methodological individualism which echoes the failures of multiculturalism
E. San Juan, Jr. , PhD harvard Marxism and the Race/Class Problematic: A Re-Articulation , Cultural Logic Vol 6 2003
The implacably zombifying ... "the bureaucratic society of controlled consumption."
Capitalism is the root cause of war
Dr. David Adams, 2002, former UNESCO Director of the Unit for the International Year for the Culture of Peace, former Professor of Psychology (for 23 years) at Wesleyan University, specialist on the brain mechanisms of aggressive behavior and the evolution of war, “Chapter 8: The Root Causes of War,” The American Peace Movements, p. 22-28, http://www.culture-of-peace.info/apm/chapter8-22.html
To take a scientific attitude about... moment of history.
Refusing the permanence of the ballot is the only way to maintain the singularity of the aff’s performance—voting aff quantifies the value of their performance which can only result in its fetishization by external forces
Phelan 96—chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies (Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, ed published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005, 19)
I am speaking here of ... reproduces other representations.
1NR FRAMEWORK CARDS
Arguments don’t injure people, but policies do—voting aff on this is much closer to censorship because it says we can’t even introduce ideas without harming them—that's a tactical move to shut down debates
Amanda Anderson 6, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, Spring 2006, “Reply to My Critic(s),” Criticism, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 281-290
Probyns piece is a mixture of ... such a task.
“Topic relevance” doesn’t solve—only a precise and limited rez creates deliberation on a point of mutual difference
Steinberg and Freeley 8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45-
Debate is a means of ... following discussion.
It’s a prior question—otherwise there's nothing to require structured disagreement
Adolf G. Gundersen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas AandM, 2000
POLITICAL THEORY AND PARTISAN POLITICS, 2000, p. 104-5. (DRGNS/E625)
Indirect political ... the same question.
