Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Arguments
Post here to talk about our arguments. As mentioned at the meeting, it looks like the Novice aff is in pretty good shape (Carty and Rachel should describe in the other entry the T definition that was missing). The Security K looks good as well. Erika will be working on an alternative to the cap K, to be used against affs that don't link to Securitization (it may be Ruralism-related). And Tessa will be working on a Reinstate the Draft CP, perhaps with a Ruralism DA net benefit (or something Ruralism-related). Finally, Erika will be forwarding answers to Agamben. Please use this read to discuss any other new ideas or arguments we need to answer.
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with regards to the ruralsim (neg) K, I believe we ran into a lot of problems in the perm debate. Not having specific cards that said they can't do both because...what have you was a challenge that cost us ground in the debate.
ReplyDeleteThe perm, like link of omission, is a weak link in the ruralism K. Again, look for something in email; we'll also talk this through on Friday.
ReplyDeleteJustin and I have had some trouble on the neg side of articulating the world of the alternative. Even with the overviews I wrote for the 2NR for the Alternative (Giroux) and Perm debate we run into trouble articulating the world of the alt with regards to the affs plan.
ReplyDeletethe awesome judge from CUNY in our 3rd round suggested just saying it was a reject alternative in which the judge needs to do is reject the aff...with this rejection we prevent any of the harms from happening that the aff team may perpetuate through the logic of security..
is this a viable approach in the round?...saying that it would be better to just reject the aff and discontinue "their" logic (and that becomes one small step in ending the subjective evaluation of security), rather than rejecting the idea of securitization as a whole?
I like this idea, hopefully it's nothing we should have done all along but its better to learn now I suppose.
The answer is really judge-specific. The awesome judge from "CUNY" (he's actually from Towson, but was working for Vermont last weekend) will certainly vote on that; there are judges who won't. We should talk more (and were going to at Wednesday's meeting, but we wanted you to be there) about getting more out of the Giroux cards.
DeleteWhen people ask us how neo-lib relates to ruralism or about neo lib in general during cross ex or whenever. A good thing to say (what a judge told us) is that these rural people don't have the economic ability to turn themselves from the ones being sacrificed into the ones doing the sacrificing. That's why we are attacking neo-lib.
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