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Tournament: Black and Gold Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: Gilbert, Valdez, Kieklak If you have questions about disclosure or would like to reach me before the round please email me at kennidi.jones25@gmail.com
10/9/21
Civil Disobedience - Afropessimism K
Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot JC | Judge: Mercedes Ardoin The aff engages in a kind of performative activism that is racial gaslighting. The 1ac is an instance of avoiding uncomfortable conversations about race which prevents accountability. They may call this a link of omission but the inability to directly confront racism short circuits any risk of solvency. Kelley, 20 McKenna Kelley is a New York City born and raised performer, writer, and creative with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater. McKenna believes that sharing stories is what connects us all and aims to create art that inspires vulnerability and change. “Performative Activism is Basically Silence. Here’s Why.” 15 June 2020, https://swaay.com/performative-activism-silence-protest-allyship Cgilbert
Going with the flow when it comes to activism … AND …right for the part of an ally in the first place.
State action and institutional ethics makes anti-blackness worse - erases the exploitation of the black body Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Strucure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 15-16)
Regarding the Black position, some might ask why, … AND … split occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.
The world writ large and civil society are preconditioned on the destruction of the black positionality Wilderson, 3 Professor UCI, 2003 (Frank B., “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal”, Soc Justice 30 no2 2003 There is something organic to black positionality that makes … AND … or Black civic obligation, are oxymorons.
Addressing Anti-Blackness is a prioirity – scandalizes ethicality and sets the stage for all violence Wilderson, 10 award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,) GG
Two tensions are at work here. One operates under the labor … AND … man” (110) or, more precisely, in the eyes of Humanity
The alternative is to reject the affirmative and reorient ourselves towards the world through an unflinching paradigmatic analysis Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages ix-x, OG *
STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South Africa. During the last years of apartheid … AND …. solidarity and appreciation to comrades Amanda Alexander, Franco Barchiesi, Teresa Barnes, Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, Nigel Gibson, Steven Greenberg, Allan Horowitz, Bushy Kelebonye (deceased), Tefu Kelebonye, Ulrike Kistner, Kamogelo Lekubu, Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu
9/29/21
Civil Disobedience - T US isnt a democracy
Tournament: Little Rock Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot JC | Judge: Mercedes Ardoin 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… AND … 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
9/29/21
Civil Disobedience-Performative Activism Bad for Black Folx
Tournament: Bentonville Tigers Eye | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot SW | Judge: Claire Busler The aff engages in a kind of performative activism that is racial gaslighting. The 1ac is an instance of avoiding uncomfortable conversations about race which prevents accountability. They may call this a link of omission but the inability to directly confront racism short circuits any risk of solvency. Kelley, 20 McKenna Kelley is a New York City born and raised performer, writer, and creative with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in musical theater. McKenna believes that sharing stories is what connects us all and aims to create art that inspires vulnerability and change. “Performative Activism is Basically Silence. Here’s Why.” 15 June 2020, https://swaay.com/performative-activism-silence-protest-allyship Cgilbert
Going with the flow when it comes to activism … AND …right for the part of an ally in the first place.
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 Lujayn Hourani is a Palestinian writer, editor, and arts worker who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Jeanine Hourani is a Palestinian activist, campaigner and storyteller who lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. “The politics and solidarity of food,” 10 June 2021, https://overland.org.au/2021/06/the-politics-and-solidarity-of-food/comment-page-1/ Cgilbert
Boycotting as a specific tactic organises people to take collective action against … AND … in Newtown, and order Palestinian food produce at Palestine Fair Trade and Sprinkle and Dash.
10/2/21
NovDec - Afropessimism K
Tournament: The Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Hawken Kj | Judge: David McGinnis Debates about unconditional worker strikes ignores the ways in which anti-blackness orders the world; strikes have been used as a tool to deny Black labor and capitulate to white workers’ demands. Until we interrogate the underlying foundations of black fungibility wages and whips, and factories and plantations will always be intertwined. Lemann, 20 Nicholas Lemann joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 1999 and has written the Letter from Washington and the Wayward Press columns for the magazine. He came to The New Yorker from The Atlantic Monthly, where, beginning in 1983, he was a national correspondent, writing about politics, education, business, social policy, and other topics. Previously, he was a writer and editor at the Washington Monthly, at Texas Monthly, and at the Washington Post. From 2003 to 2013, he served as the dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where he is now a faculty member. He is the author of “The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America,” “The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy,” and “Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War.” His most recent book is “Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream.” “Is Capitalism Racist?” 18 May 2020, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/25/is-capitalism-racist Cgilbert
Johnson, who grew up in Missouri, tells us that he … AND … “that a male breadwinner was the keystone figure of healthy Black family life.” State action and institutional ethics makes anti-blackness worse - erases the exploitation of the black body Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Strucure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 15-16) Regarding the Black position, some might ask why, … AND … at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.
The world writ large and civil society are preconditioned on the destruction of the black positionality Wilderson, 3 Professor UCI, 2003 (Frank B., “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal”, Soc Justice 30 no2 2003 There is something organic to black positionality … AND … or Black civic obligation, are oxymorons.
Addressing Anti-Blackness is a prioirity – scandalizes ethicality and sets the stage for all violence Wilderson, 10 award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,) GG Two tensions are at work here. One … AND … more precisely, in the eyes of Humanity
The alternative is to reject the affirmative and reorient ourselves towards the world through an unflinching paradigmatic analysis Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages ix-x, OG * STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South … AND … Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu
11/21/21
NovDec - Black Care K
Tournament: Longhorn Class | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian CS | Judge: Cale McCrary The unconditional right to strike has ALWAYS come at the expense of Black people; Supreme Court doctrine and strikes post Reconstruction all prove the insidious ways strike negative affect Blacks. Cassedy, 97 James Gilbert Cassedy is a contributing historian to the National Archives. “African Americans and the American Labor Movement,” Summer 1997, Federal Records and African American History Volume 29, Number 2, https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/american-labor-movement.html Cgilbert
The formation of American trade unions increased during the early Reconstruction … AND … Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, is found in the Records of the National Mediation Board (RG 13).8
The plan demands the “durable fiat” of an ahistorical dream – anti-ethics is your paradigmatic imperative. Curry 13 (Curry, Tommy J. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR @ DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, RAY A. ROTHROCK FELLOW (’13-’16). TEXAS AandM UNIVERSITY “In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical,” Situating, Black Existentialism (UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming). Available on academia.edu shree)) The Fiat of Dreams: The potentiality of whiteness—the proleptic call of white anti-racist consciousness— is nothing more than … AND … or the horizons of white supremacy. Racism, the debasement of melaninated bodies and nigger-souls, is totalizing.
Scenario planning is pornotroping that condemns blacks to repetition of impersonal death – infatuation with the “contingency” of “material change” disavows libidinal investments. Leong 16 – PhD UC Irvine - Assistant Professor, English, University of Utah - Assistant Professor, Environmental Humanities Graduate Program, University of Utah (Diana, “The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 2(2), 1-35) Black lives matter and black lives matter and black lives matter. This homographic reading of the most salient political statement of recent … AND … functions become clearer when we turn our attention to Octavia Butler’s Parable duology.
Vote neg to affirm Black care, the refusal to distance from pathology. This ends the world, producing Black sociality. Sexton 10 (Jared Sexton, Director, African American Studies School of Humanities , Associate Professor, African American Studies School of Humanities, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies School of Humanities at University of California Irvine, “The Social Life of Social Death: On Afro-Pessimism and Black Optimism”) What I find most intriguing about the timbre of the argument … AND … like an embrace of pathology without pathos.
12/10/21
NovDec - T All Workers
Tournament: The Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Greenhill CR | Judge: Akeela Naqvi Interpretation: Unconditional means not conditional or limited. – to clarify, the affirmative must defend the right of all workers to strike at any time. Merriam Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional)//ww pbj not conditional or limited Violation: they don’t Standards: 1 Limits – allows an aff infinite permutations of arbitrary conditions like no striking for medical workers, not if it causes harm, or only for a certain duration. Explosion of aff ground makes neg prep burden impossible, either killing neg ground or forcing the neg to read generics that barely link, always letting aff win. Force the 1AR to read a definition card with a clear list of when its okay to put conditions and what they are – otherwise, its arbitrary and you should vote neg since they can’t put a clear limit on the topic. Our interp solves – it establishes a clear bright-line for that gives the neg a chance to predict and prepare for every aff ahead of time.
Drop the Debater – 1 sets a precedent that debaters wont be abusive
2 DTA is the same since you drop the aff
Voters: 1 Fairness – constitutive to the judge to decide the better debater, only fairness is in your jurisdiction because it skews decision making 2 Education – the only portable education from debate that we care about
Competing Interps: 1 reasonability on t is incoherent: you’re either topical or you’re not – it’s impossible to be 77 topical, links to all limits offense 2 functionally the same as reasonability – we debate over a specified briteline which is a counter interp 3 judge intervention – judge has to intervene on what’s reasonable, creates a race to the bottom where debaters exploit judge tolerance for questionable argumentation.
No RVIs 1 illogical for you to get offense just for being fair – it’s the 1ac’s burden 2 baiting - rvi’s incentivize debaters to read abusive positions to win off theory 3 discourages checking abuse since debaters will be afraid to lose on theory
11/21/21
Procedural - Disclose to Black People
Tournament: UK Season Opener | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot AM | Judge: Michael Fain a. Interpretation: Non-black debaters should have to disclose their 1AC to debaters of color. The aff isn’t disclosed on the wiki. Not only is disclosure a norm in debate but not disclosing to blacks is a form of insidious whiteness b. Reasons to prefer: First is strategic fairness: the strategic withholding of your 1AC replicates state logic which uses neutrality and fairness as a mechanism to repress social struggles. This strategic objectivity is the same logic that produced jim crow laws, the laws behind the war on drugs and even current immigration policy. The affirmative is a view from nowhere* that disregards social location as a contributing factor to the way power operates. Their strategic use of fairness gets weaponized against bodies of color as an act of identity erasure.
Second is legalism: The minor revisions of the aff is used as scapegoat for not disclosing – this is the same legalistic thinking that allows the state to ignore the racist implications of seemingly objective policy. It is an exploitable loophole the aff weaponizes against debaters of color. that state uses to justify policies that work against people of color – immigration policy, the criminal justice system are ripe with examples of objectivity and legalistic maneuvering used as an excuse to enact discriminatory and outright violence against non-white people.
Third is forced trauma – the 1ac in particular has material impacts in this debate because their advocacy doesn’t stem from policy making. This advocacy forces people of color to either a. disclose their unique social location via discussions of race and the centering of identity or b. debaters of color need to prepare themselves to generate offense in a way that can avoid that discussion while still being competitive.
c. This impact comes first – You should vote to reject the insidious nature of the 1AC. We already know your personal politics and the type of immigration advocacy your president defends which only makes this affirmative more suspect and magnifies the impact.
9/11/21
Procedural - Distancing from Kantian Ethics
Tournament: JW Patterson Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Jenks TR | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow Interpretation – Debaters should not be allowed to divorce themselves from their authors. Reading and defending the ideals of a staunch racist is a bad model of debate.
Violation – They rely heavily on the teachings of Kant who was a staunch racist who viewed Black folk as inferior, indigenous people as lazy/uneducated, and believed in white supremacy. The aff continues the acceptance of his racist scholarship without critically interrogating the racist undertones of the contemporary philosophy. Rutledge, 19 David Rutledge has been a broadcaster since 1998, when he began making his first radio features, and he joined RN full-time in 2001. Beyond his work in features, David has produced and presented The Religion and Ethics Report, Sunday Nights on ABC Local Radio, and RN’s late night music program The Quiet Space. “Racist attitudes 'whitewashed' modern philosophy. What can be done to change it?,” 9 November 2019, https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-10/modern-philosophical-canon-has-always-been-pretty-whitewashed/11678314 Cgilbert
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was one of the great moral philosophers. For … AND … still sedimented deep within the practices of contemporary philosophy.
Reasons to Prefer:
1 – Distancing from rhetoric; this ability to detach yourself and research from “the flow” is the epitome of whiteness in LD. Words matter and so does your ballot, endorse a model of debate that where the speech act isn’t detached from the student. Vincent, 13 At the publishing of this article, Christopher Vincent is currently the Graduate Assistant for the University of Louisville Debate Team and Director of Debate at the James Graham Brown School in Louisville, KY. He debated at the University of Louisville, reaching the double-octafinals of both the National Debate Tournament and Cross-Examination Debate Tournament. He has also been coaching high school Lincoln Douglas debate for the past five years, with debaters reaching elims at tournaments such as Harvard, Emory, Newark, and others. Chris currently coaches for Isidore Newman in New Orleans, LA. “Re-Conceptualizing our Performances: Accountability in Lincoln Douglas Debate,” 26 October 2013, https://www.vbriefly.com/2013/10/26/201310re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate/ Cgilbert
It is becoming increasingly more apparent in Lincoln Douglas debate that students of color are being held to a higher threshold … AND … ways of knowing as normative without ever challenging how it replicates oppressive structures.
Interpretation – The Aff must present a concrete strategy for the application of their advocacy through specific political institution outside of the debate community. 2. Violation – The affirmative presents an interrogation of power relations that relies on the debate community alone, without providing a concrete strategy to actually fix the problems they critique. They become the revolutionary hero who limits analysis to one scenario instead of creating a replicable solution based on their theory. This creates arm-chair philosophers who prevent turning theory into praxis, proving the violation. Newton ‘71 (Huey P. Newton- Black Capitalism Reanalysed- Huey P. Newton Reader- 227-228) edited for language We see then that power has a dual character and that we cannot simply identify … AND … where they will seize the time and make these phenomena act in a desired manner. 3. Reasons to Prefer a. Ground – we are supposed to engage their political methodology in relation to the power relations that are intact in the SQUO – of course analysis in an abstract may be good – we’re not saying that kritikal ground is necessarily bad – but this destroys our ability to engage material oppression – they could have chosen violent revolution, a nation state, or any other political strategy that is not USFG based – we allow freedom within reasonable limits that maximize engagement
b. Minority Participation – basing their view of power on an unrealistic and abstract philosophy turns their attempts to shape politics because minorities NEED material and political methods to combat oppression – the aff makes debate less accessible to minorities and exclude the oppressed – that prevents revolutionary analysis, participation, and overall education Kadlec 8 Alison, Senior Public Engagement Research Associate and Associate Director of the Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE) at the nonprofit, non-partisan public interest research and public engagement organization, Public Agenda, in New York. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at Macalester, Baruch and Hunter Colleges, and her book, Dewey 's Critical Pragmatism, appeared in 2007, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, No. 117, “The Limits of Deliberative Democracy” (December 2008), pp. 54-80 By positing that critical thought and action emerges in and develops through a process of harnessing the … AND … necessary for the pursuit of more flexible and service- able account of democratic deliberation.
10/9/21
SeptOct - Afropessmism K
Tournament: UK Season Opener | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cabot AM | Judge: Michael Fain Advocating for reductions in IP protections for medicine without interrogating why Black people are good enough for experimentation, in the eyes of French doctors on TV, and not real treatment is a BAD way to start the year and a tacit endorsement of global anti-Black violence. Failure to treat the symptom and not the underlying issue will cede to the inevitable racial reckoning. Patz, 21 Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. “DISPOSABLE LIVES: COVID-19, VACCINES, AND THE UPRISING,” Columbia Law Review Forum, 1 June 2021, Volume 121, pg. 71-94, https://www.columbialawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Sirleaf-Disposable_Lives-Covid-19_Vaccines_And_The_Uprising.pdf Cgilbert
Two French doctors appeared on television and publicly … AND … the racial status quo in these areas and beyond.
State action and institutional ethics makes anti-blackness worse - erases the exploitation of the black body Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Strucure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 15-16) Regarding the Black position, some might ask why, … AND … at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.
The world writ large and civil society are preconditioned on the destruction of the black positionality Wilderson, 3 Professor UCI, 2003 (Frank B., “The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal”, Soc Justice 30 no2 2003 There is something organic to black positionality … AND … or Black civic obligation, are oxymorons.
Addressing Anti-Blackness is a prioirity – scandalizes ethicality and sets the stage for all violence Wilderson, 10 award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,) GG Two tensions are at work here. One … AND … more precisely, in the eyes of Humanity
The alternative is to reject the affirmative and reorient ourselves towards the world through an unflinching paradigmatic analysis Wilderson 10 Frank B. III, Ph.D., Associate Professor at UC Irvine, former ANC member, “on some guerilla shit”, Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pages ix-x, OG * STRANGE AS it might seem, this book project began in South … AND … Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S'bu Zulu