Jargon and Theory
A policy position that is an alternative to the plan, but solves the problem better.
What is a counterplan?
A kritik that condemns America's current domestic economic system.
What is the cap k?
The part of a T position that describes why the plan does not fit within the resolution.
What is the violation?
"Util" and "Deon" are shortened terms for these two perspectives on ethics.
What is utilitarianism and deontology?
The title for the intensive supporters of Andrew Yang.
What is the Yang Gang?
When you can do both the plan and the alternative (or counterplan).
What is a perm?
The primary author and creator of the term 'biopower'.
Who is Michel Foucault?
Reasons why one team would win if they proved the aff was untopical.
What are voters?
Term used for weighing the end effects of each side's positions, usually near the end of the debate.
What is impact calculus?
This presidential candidate is running almost entirely on combating climate change.
Who is Jay Inslee?
The fiction that the plan can be enacted in order to explore the implications.
What is fiat?
A kritik which criticizes the international system of free trade and market capitalism.
What is a neoliberal k?
Criteria used to determine which interpretation is superior to another interpretation.
What are standards?
This English philosopher is typically credited with coining and conceptualizing modern utilitarianism.
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
This candidate served as the 27th District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Term for when a perm cuts out of too much of the plan to the point of abuse.
What is severance?
The primary author of most Afropessimism kritiks.
Who is Frank Wilderson?
When only PART of a plan is nontopical, but other parts are topical.
What is extra topicality?
Immanuel Kant's theory of ethics would most likely be characterized as this perspective on ethics.
What is deontological?
This presidential candidate once went on a 10-day hunger strike after being elected to the Municipal Council in 1998.
The concept that determines whether or not positions can exist and operate within the same world.
What is conditionality/competition?
The author of kritiks primarily centered around the "state of exception" and biopolitics.
Who is Giorgio Agamben?
When the plan is not topical on face, but has repercussions that are topical.
What is effects topicality?
This thought experiment is frequently used to compare consequentialist and deontological frameworks.
What is the Trolley problem?
This candidate was once an economic adviser for Barack Obama.
Who is Elizabeth Warren?