Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stuy IL | Judge: Derek Ying
The value is justice.
The resolution asks us what a just society would do. This means that according to the words of the resolution, the highest value is justice.
The value criterion is mitigating structural violence. The way society is structured, who it includes and excludes determines whether or not justice is possible. A pre-requisite to having a just society is the mitigation of structural violence.
The value criterion is mitigating structural violence.
Structural violence is based in moral exclusion, which is fundamentally flawed because exclusion is not based on dessert but rather on arbitrarily perceived differences — the only way to mitigate structural violence is through knowledge of how it works.
Winter and Leighton 99 |Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter|Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgeable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and justice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice “Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century.” Pg 4-5 ghsVA
Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about how and why we tolerate it, questions which often have painful answers for the privileged elite
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In the long run, reducing structural violence by reclaiming neighborhoods, demanding social justice and living wages, providing prenatal care, alleviating sexism, and celebrating local cultures, will be our most surefooted path to building lasting peace.
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“Shall the labor unions use their influence to deprive the black man of his opportunity to labor… or unite with those who want to give every man, regardless of color, race or creed, what Colonel Roosevelt calls the ‘square deal’ in the matters of labor?”By Booker T. Washington
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Plan text: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike for all unions but racist ones.
There is an inherent history of racism within trade unions in the construction trade!
Watson’21 | Travis (creator of ADOSConstruction.org and chair of the Boston Employment Commission (BEC). Appointed by former Boston mayor and current US Department of Labor Secretary Martin J. Walsh, the BEC oversees the Boston Residents Jobs Policy, which sets employment standards on city-assisted construction projects. Travis also is a board member of YouthBuild Boston and NEI General Contracting’s Workforce Opportunity Resource Center.). “Union Construction’s Racial Equity and Inclusion Charade (SSIR).” Stanford Social Innovation Review, 14 June 2021, Accessed: 11/11/21 https://ssir.org/articles/entry/union_constructions_racial_equity_and_inclusion_charade# (SPHS,LF)
Union construction jobs are not just good jobs, they are great jobs.
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For example, when Robert Lucas, the president of the refrigeration contractor Lewis Refrigeration, who is a white man, called Local Union 32 and specifically asked for a Black plumber to be dispatched to his job, the dispatcher reportedly laughed and dismissed his request.
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Condition - Trade Unions ought to take a stand against white nationalist extremism in order to be allowed to Strike.
Stöss’ 17 | Dr. Richard Stöss is a retired political science professor who taught at the Freie Universität Berlin. His main areas of interest in terms of both research and teaching were the political parties, trade unions and right-wing extremism in Germany and Europe, and he is widely published in this area./ “TRADE UNIONS AND RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM IN EUROPE” Published 2017/ Accessed 11/11/21/ https://euagenda.eu/upload/publications/untitled-108082-ea.pdf (SPHS,LF)
Globalisation has effects similar to those of the emergent industrialisation in the 19th century: namely, almost revolutionary changes to the socio-economic and political-cultural circumstances in all the states of the EU.
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It is incumbent on trade unions at both the national and international levels to take suitable measures to disarm the forces on the right fringe.
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Racist Labor Unions have used their influence to be discriminatory against Blk workers
Washington’ 1913 ( Booker T. was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser to several presidents of the United States. In addition to that,was an African Community leader)“Booker T. Washington on African Americans and Unions.” The Atlantic, June 1913 , https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1913/06/the-negro-and-the-labor-unions/52924/ (SPHS,LF)
When the Negro boy from the Southern states leaves the plantation or the farm and goes up to the city, it is not work, in many cases, that he is looking for.
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to lessen rather than to magnify the prejudices which make it difficult for white men and black men to unite for their common good?