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| Black and Gold Classic | Finals | Little Rock AA | Gilbert, Valdez, Kieklak |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Black and Gold Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Little Rock AA | Judge: Gilbert, Valdez, Kieklak | 10/9/21 |
Civil Disobedience - Performative Activism KTournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot CT | Judge: Akul Shrivastava The consumption of news catering to specific ideologies, although … The 1975 and Greta Thunberg are proof that the civil disobedience of the aff will be commodified under capital exploitation. This turns the aff because they create a “feel good” story but in reality the impacts of the 1ac will continue post their civil disobedience. Peirson-Hagger, 19 Yes, I am pleased that the severity of the climate crisis is an issue that is … Thus the alternative – in the face of performative activism and civil disobedience we propose a method of boycotting via ethical consumption. Micro-level resistance in Palestine proves how this can not only change the narrative on social issues but also eats at the heart of colonial dominance and oppression. Hourani and Hourani, 21 Boycotting as a specific tactic organises people to take collective action against … | 9/29/21 |
Civil Disobedience - T US isnt a democracyTournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot CT | Judge: Akul Shrivastava Violation – The US is NOT and has never been a democracy IN PRACTICE. Wolfe-Rocca, 20 Angela Davis writes that “freedom is a constant struggle… Reasons to Prefer:
2. Topic Specific Education – all of our offense on the neg is predicated on civil disobedience in a democracy. By not defending a practice democracy the aff skirts key questions raised by the resolution and dilute the valuable education we should be garnering from this round. The terminal impact is clash; being well-informed on both sides of the debate this year provides an intrinsic value no prior topic has provided and is key to argument refinement and higher order testing of affs | 9/29/21 |
NovDec - Racial Cap KTournament: The Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Trinity Prep Lk | Judge: David McGinnis Johnson, who grew up in Missouri, tells us that he was moved to write the book by the events in … The 1ACs affirmation of local forms of politics, through worker strikes, disempowers political subjects and cedes the global to unfettered capitalism. Vote neg on presumption -- regardless of the benefits of their method for them, fragmented politics are fundamentally non-unique and non-inherent- the aff only replicates failures There has been an excess of modesty in the feminist agendas of recent … Prioritize the racializing violence of racial capitalism over the spectacle of extinction - the universal humanity presumed in their util calculus mystifies the bifurcation of life worlds and the devaluation that is the condition of possibility for extinction in the first place This is the logic of terminality: A threat is looming over all of humanity… Thus, the alternative is destituent power. We must form links between the political struggles sustained by racial capitalism and organize on a micropolitical level to break down the macropolitical institutions that continue to oppress us. Bougsty-Marshall 16 Thus, to weave the necessary federated and transversal links between multiple, diverse … | 11/20/21 |
SeptOct - Set Col KTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AD | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow Because Indian bodies are "dirty," they are considered … Colonialism necessitates mass structural violence as war becomes a permanent relation in order to securitize life through the elimination the racialized colonial subject The alternative is to reject their disembodied focus on international actors and rethink democratic politics from the bottom up. Refusing their top-down approach to sovereignty brings a slew of peaceful local alternatives into view | 10/17/21 |
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