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Introduction to the Kritik

Introduction to the Kritik. Dallas Urban Debate Alliance. Critical Thinking Game. A sailor sailed his boat North. The sailor died. A man on got a plan and saw an old friend. The flight marshall immediately arrested him. Role of the Judge.

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Introduction to the Kritik

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  1. Introduction to the Kritik Dallas Urban Debate Alliance

  2. Critical Thinking Game • A sailor sailed his boat North. The sailor died.

  3. A man on got a plan and saw an old friend. The flight marshall immediately arrested him.

  4. Role of the Judge

  5. The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere. • If the affirmative team asks the judge to vote for them, what are they saying the role of the judge is? In other words, how are they saying the judge should decide?

  6. The Dallas UDA should provide more educational opportunities for DISD students. • If the affirmative team asks the judge to vote for them, what are they saying the role of the judge is? In other words, how are they saying the judge should decide?

  7. Kritiks

  8. Kritiks – What it is • Like a CP, but instead of a different plan its another way of looking at or describing the problem/the world • They might explain how the role of the judge is different than what we assume • Should be read in the 1nc

  9. Structure of A Kritik • Link • Impact • Alternative

  10. Types (based off of link) • Assumption based • Rhetorical or Language • Representations • Different Style of Debate

  11. Example • There is quiet a bit of literature that blames not individual policies but security logic itself for warfare. These authors call for complete pacifism. Here is how that might look: • Link: The plan is used as a means to make us more secure and supposedly prevent war. • Impact: The quest for international security is the root cause of warfare—we will never be truly secure and will wage terrible wars trying to get there. • Alternative: Endorse pacifism as a means of escaping the security trap.

  12. More Examples • There is a philosopher named Foucault who argued that it is dangerous when the government gains knowledge over people as it is the same thing as having more power. His basic argument is that governments surveillance is like a prison guard’s surveillance over a prisoner (the panopticon) This disciplinary Power (or power/knowledge) to create what the government decides is order allows the government to destroy disorder • Link: The plan expands government control over the population by allowing more surveillance. • Impact: this knowledge/power causes extinction. • Alternative: Reject the bio-political control of the affirmative case as a means of resisting government oppression.

  13. Panopticum

  14. Even MORE Examples • Imagine that the 1AC is full of heart-wrenching stories about military crimes—people starving or dying. Some people criticize such literature by pointing out that it frames foreigners as total victims—people who are incapable of thinking or acting for themselves. • Link: The 1AC depicts foreigners at hopeless victims. • Impact: This dehumanizing imagery makes us feel like saviors and keeps us from experiencing true empathy that could challenge the root cause of military action. • Alternative: Pass the plan but without the 1AC rhetoric of victimhood.

  15. Are there common threads between critiques? • Although critiques can be from any political perspective, many of them are from the far left and are characterized by: • Skepticism towards absolute truth claims • Doubts about the ability of government to effectively manage programs (international or domestic) • An emphasis on identity politics • An emphasis on the significance of language choices • An emphasis on encouraging people to question every day assumptions about the world

  16. AnsweringKritiks

  17. Structure of a DA

  18. Structure of a CP

  19. Okay, so remember how the kritik is just a CP and a DA?

  20. So if a Kritik is a DA and CP, then the answers should be a combination of the answers we make to a DA and CP

  21. Structure of a Kritik

  22. Few Nicole Rants • Kritiks are BEST and MOST strategic when you can prove a link of the 1AC that is physically written down – so you could hold a card or a plan up in a 2NR to show the link • Kritiks are MOST WINABLE if you EXPLAIN why the affirmative can not solve their advantages as well as why it causes other bad stuff. • In the NEG Block make sure you talk about the

  23. Few Nicole Rants for Answering the Kritik • Don’t let Negs win on any one of the “kritik stock issues” • Aff authors are biased - Aff Advantages are a lie • Kritik is the ROOT CAUSE of the aff impacts • The Aff’s world means there is no “value to life” • Link Turns do not win debates – Alternative TURNS win debates.

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