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Special K. Kritik Theory, Refutation, and Strategy Tips. Part One. Basic Theory. Achievement Targets. Students will understand the concept of Civil Disobedience. Students will know the definition of a kritik and be able to differentiate between types of kritiks.

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  1. Special K Kritik Theory, Refutation, and Strategy Tips

  2. PartOne Basic Theory

  3. Achievement Targets Students will understand the concept of Civil Disobedience. Students will know the definition of a kritik and be able to differentiate between types of kritiks.. Students will understand the difference between a kritik and an ad hominem argument.

  4. Preliminary Concept Civil Disobedience Part One Theory

  5. What is Civil Disobedience? A form of law breaking employed to demonstrate the injustice or unfairness of a particular law and indulged in deliberately to focus attention on the allegedly undesirable law. Black’s Law Dictionary 6th ed.

  6. Civil Disobedience? A logging company has a permit to clear some acreage you believe should be preserved to protect an endangered species. You organize an environmental group and chain yourselves to the trees to prevent the company from accomplishing their task. The police are called, and you refuse to leave even under threat of arrest.

  7. Civil Disobedience? You believe the laws of personal property are unjust, so you commit armed robbery at the local bank.

  8. Civil Disobedience? You believe the laws outlawing smoking are wrong, so you frequently smoke on campus. However, if an instructor or administrator is nearby, you don’t light up, or you extinguish your cigarette and walk away.

  9. Civil Disobedience? At the City Council meeting you speak out denouncing the local ordinance on cruising.

  10. Characteristics of Civil Disobedience • Must break a law, rule, or social construct • Must be public • Must be non-violent • Must be willing to accept the consequences of rule violations

  11. So What?

  12. Kritik:Debate asCivil Disobedience: Law

  13. What is a Kritik? A kritik is an argument that calls into question the thought processes used by the affirmative team to develop their position and/or arguments.

  14. So how is that like civil disobedience?

  15. debate switches from resolution to personal • Contractual obligation • Kritik is advocacy • only justification for personal arguments • dropped K’s become an ad hominem.

  16. Types of Kritiks • Statism • Language • Mindset

  17. Government Stinks(Statism) • This kritik faults the affirmative team for using a government entity as the plan agent. • The negative team claims government is the source of the harms. • Infrequently used

  18. I can’t believe you said that! (Language Kritik) • This kritik focuses on certain words in the affirmative cards or plan. Use of these words hinder societal progress and prevent solvency. • What’s out there • Feminist language • Nuclearism • Terror talk

  19. The Mom Kritik(If you think that, you have another think coming.) • This kritik argues that the philosophical mindset of the affirmative team hinders solvency, creating more problems than it solves • What is out there • Fem IR • Threat construction

  20. Part Two Answering the Kritik

  21. Achievement Targets • Students will use their knowledge of kritik theory to develop frontlines against the most common kritiks.

  22. Typical Affirmative answers • Non-unique • No link • No impact

  23. Why don’t these answers win rounds? • Of course the kritik is non-unique. Virtually everyone violates the K; that’s the point. • Deny it if you like, but it’s there. • Not all impacts end with nuclear war. If fiat is illusionary, social impacts carry great weight.

  24. So, what is the best defense? A good offense!

  25. Why is offense necessary? Beginning of the 2NC when the 2AC has no offensive arguments Beginning of the 2NC when the 2AC has offensive arguments

  26. Frontlines • 10 answers • preemptive IV • plan non unique • personal no link • plan no link • no impact • perm • card supporting perm • perm solves card • performative contradiction IV • answer to fiat is illusory only pre-fiat implications matters--post ballot implications

  27. Preemptive Independent Voter

  28. Frontlines • 10 answers • preemptive IV • plan non unique • personal no link • plan no link • noimpact perm

  29. Permutation • Test for mutual exclusivity • if not mutually exclusive, no reason to reject the affirmative. • Sample perm: Do plan and rethink (violation). • Card supporting perm • Card that perm solves

  30. Frontlines • 10 answers • preemptive IV • plan non unique • personal no link • plan no link • no impact • perm • card supporting perm • perm solves card performative contradiction IV

  31. What is a performative contradiction? • A performative contradiction occurs when the negative team violates their own kritik. • PC’s create an unfair advantage for the negative side. • Therefore an IV is justified

  32. Frontlines • 10 answers • preemptive IV • plan non unique • personal no link • plan no link • no impact • perm • card supporting perm • perm solves card • performative contradiction IV • answer to fiat is illusory only pre-fiat implications matters--post ballot implications

  33. Fiat is illusory • Once the critic votes, nothing really happens; the plan does not go into effect. • Debate is an educational activity • This round’s education only affects the people in the room. • Only way to ensure education is to reject the affirmative team

  34. Pre-fiat Implications Topicality Debate Affirmative team develops plan Resolution Fiat Affirmative team presents plan Plan in effect Pre-fiat Post-ballot

  35. Frontlines • 10 answers • preemptive IV • plan non unique • personal no link • plan no link • no impact • perm • card supporting perm • perm solves card • performative contradiction IV • answer to fiat is illusory only pre-fiat implications matters--post ballot implications

  36. Strategy Tips Part Three

  37. Cross-Ex • Determine that negative team understands K • Establish pre-fiat implications • Establish violators of K should be rejected.

  38. 1AR • Extend those perm cards! • Extend no reason to reject since rethinking solves for impact. • Extend all offensive arguments • preemptive IV • perm • performative contradiction • post ballot implications.

  39. 2 AR • Ask critic to review the pre-fiat arguments and reject the negative team. • Performative contradiction--negative team sought to gain an unfair advantage. • Educational impact • or ad hominem argument if dropped.

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