Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot TC | Judge: Khushi Patil
Interpretation – Debaters should only defend legitimate democracies; not just democracies in theory but also in practice
Violation – The US is NOT and has never been a democracy IN PRACTICE. Wolfe-Rocca, 20
Ursula Wolfe-Rocca has taught high school social studies since 2000. She is on the editorial board of Rethinking Schools and is a Zinn Education Project Writer and Organizer. “The United States Is Not a Democracy. Stop Telling Students That It Is,” 17 November 2020, https://www.zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our-history/us-is-not-a-democracy/ Cgilbert
Angela Davis writes that “freedom is a constant struggle…
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… unsound house to better shelter our lives, safety, comfort, and full humanity.
Reasons to Prefer:
- Limits and Ground – allowing the aff to not defend a real democracy skirts neg generics and explode the research burden. That justifies aff’s turn a non-democracy into a democracy to justify civil disobedience. All of their solvency evidence is predicated on civil disobedience in the US yet in practice, NOT theory, the US is not a democracy. You HAVE to hold the line on such an aff biased topic and lit base.
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