Tournament: Harvard | Round: 1 | Opponent: Andrew ODonahue | Judge: Matt Reichle

1AC

The role of the judge is to reward the debater whose performance and discourse does not perpetuate the oppression of people. We must question what our discourse in round justifies.

(Christopher Vincent 2013, Debate Coach, former college NDT debater "Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate" http://victorybriefs.com/vbd/2013/10/re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate)-http://victorybriefs.com/vbd/2013/10/re-conceptualizing-our-performances-accountability-in-lincoln-douglas-debate), HSH

In his chapter on "Non Cartesian Sums," in Blackness Visible, Charles Mills
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color, and in turn destroy the transformative potential this community could have.

THUS

Resource extraction is rooted in capitalism and neoliberalism.

Jason Macleod, Legal and social theorist currently studying at Berkeley School of Law, "Marx, Capitalism, Globalization, and Climate Change: Revolutionary Ideas For Climate Change Mitigation", 2013, http://www.jasondmacleod.com/marx-capitalism-globalization-climate-change-revolutionary-ideas-climate-change-mitigation/-http://www.jasondmacleod.com/marx-capitalism-globalization-climate-change-revolutionary-ideas-climate-change-mitigation/, HSH

The Industrial Revolution, the ~The~ introduction of neoliberal economic ideology, and
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lead to faster and faster depletion of non-renewable energy and resources.

Cap is the root cause of racism.

(Alex Taylor; writer, the Socialist Worker, http://socialistworker.org/2002-2/431/431_08_Racism.shtml, dashes in original), HSH

FOR MANY people coming to radical politics—Blacks and whites alike—hatred of
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against whites, bear arms and own property, including servants and slaves.

Racism inevitably leads to genocide.

~Erin Steuter and Deborah Wills, Writers at Rowman 26 Littlefield Publishers Inc., At War With Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror, pg. 41 to 45, 2008~, HSH

Every genocide is followed by denial. The mass graves are dug up and hidden
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the reach of the civilizing impulse, they brought their end upon themselves.

Rejecting resource extraction as it occurs now is key to ending capitalism.  We need to rethink the way that we currently use the environment.

(Timothy Luke 01 ~Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic~;Education, Environment and Sustainability: what are the issues, where to intervene, what must be done?; Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 33, No. 2, HSH

To create a truly more sustainable society, environmental ~Environmental~ education must unravel
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to move past the technological and environmental failings of the present global economy.

Only a full rejection of cap can solve.

Andrew W. Jones 2, ~Department of Sociology, St. Lawrence University~ "Solving the Ecological Problems of Capitalism: Capitalist and Socialist Possibilities", Organization Environment 2011 24:54

Thus, a ~A~ postcapitalist, ecological socialist mode of production would have
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the fallacy of capitalism’s unending growth can be in capitalism’s own quantitative terms.¶

And, when weighing between impacts, genocide is functionally the worst type of oppression. We have an a priori obligation to reject things with the potential to cause genocide.

Jonathan Glover 01 ~Ethics Professor King’s College in London, Humanity: A Moral history of the 20^th Century, 2001~., HSH

With disasters on the scale of some in the 20th century, any ethical theory
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, revulsion against these things which people have done has a central place.

Underview 1

Capitalist market expansion destroys biodiversity- empirics prove.

Ostfeld and Keesing 13 (Richard S Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, USA, Felicia Keesing, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, "Biodiversity and Human Health" http://ac.els-cdn.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/B9780123847195003324/3-s2.0-B9780123847195003324-main.pdf?_tid=e3f0ac3e-f33b-11e2-8ded-00000aab0f0226acdnat=1374545112_3c915724869f82f0aad33f3288a1e075-http://ac.els-cdn.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/B9780123847195003324/3-s2.0-B9780123847195003324-main.pdf?_tid=e3f0ac3e-f33b-11e2-8ded-00000aab0f0226acdnat=1374545112_3c915724869f82f0aad33f3288a1e075), HSH

The organization of economic activity into more-or-less private markets is,
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natural habitats to provide more area for industry, residences, and agriculture.

Underview 2

Neoliberalism destroys value to life and creates massive social inequality and masks loss of higher social meaning through empty material consumption.

Heron 08 ("Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Exercise of Human Agency" International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. 20, No. 1/4, The New Sociological Imagination III (Sep., 2008), pp. 85-101; http://www.jstor.org/stable/40206149-http://www.jstor.org/stable/40206149), HSH

Generally, neoliberalism ~Neolib~ is about facilitating freer movement of goods, resources
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the exercise of human agency embedded in the web of social relations within.

Underview 3

Presume aff and prefer aff interps because it’s always easier to negate.

A. Neg gets to adapt to the AC, which means I have to debate better just to remain equal with them since they always start out with the advantage, which violates fairness.
B. The 7-4-6-3 times skew means the neg rebuttals are easier.
C. The neg only has to extend once and I have to extend twice, and they get much longer to do it.
D. I have to try to preempt the neg since they can adapt, but the neg can just pick a strat that the spikes don’t apply to, which wastes minutes of the AC.

1. Neg theory is drop the argument, aff theory is drop the debater:
   A. The 1AR time skew means the neg can read a bunch of shells in the NC that I can’t respond to, making substance debate impossible.
   B. The 1AR time skew means if the neg chooses to read a ton of drop the debater shells in the NC and I drop one of them, I lose.

Aff only RVIS

A. The 7-4-6-3 time skew means the neg can go for both theory and substance while I have to try to win all of the theory debate in the AR’s because it’s game over if I don’t. Checking back time skew makes answering theory heavy NC’s a lot more doable.
Theory is used for creating good norms. Abusing theory destroys norms that improve debate
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the message that we don’t care about norms that affect fairness or education. 

CX checks on theory and T.

There’s an infinite number of shells I could potentially violate and theory is for creating
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simply asking is counteractive to both debate and the production of useful norms.

The aff chooses the framework for the round.

A. The neg can adapt to my framework without losing time, while I lose 6 minutes if I have to adapt to his, especially if they just pick a framework that strategically excludes my offense. This is key to fairness since I have to have equal time to set up arguments to be able to win.
B. Time skew- If I lose my framework it’s game over, since the neg gets 6 minutes to respond to my 4 minute 1AR – linking into their framework is a no-go. Giving me framework choice is the only way to have a remotely competitive round, which is key to fairness because both debaters need to have equal access to the ballot to be able to win.

2. The neg must defend an explicit written text that advocates real world policy implementation.
A. Strat Skew- If the neg doesn’t read a CP, they can change the way that their advocacy functions in the next speech.  Having a text binds them to the specifics of their arguments and prevents them from shifting out of my offense.  Strat is key to fairness since it is key to creating a coherent ballot story.

Time skew- If the neg doesn’t defend a counterplan, they can just read
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to have equal time to set up arguments to be able to win.

B. Ground Skew-If the neg doesn’t read a specific advocacy text it’s impossible for me to run DAs and turns that link back to their advocacy, but I also can’t do substantive comparison between the nuances of my position and theirs based on both textual and mechanical competition. Ground is key to fairness because both debaters need equal access to the ballot in order to have an equal chance to win.