Interlake MW (Megan Wu)
hey, i'm megan! i debated for interlake (in wa state) from 2015-2016, and debated on the circuit for 2.5 years. i took the most pride in cutting new frameworks and developing t/theory positions, so here are my favorite positions i wrote over the years. if you are a small school/independent debater and have questions about debating without institutional support/any position i have up here, feel free to reach out on facebook.
thanks also to xave, katherine, and kris for invaluable help and guidance throughout my career & with many of these arguments.
aff cases
posting these mostly because i'm proud of the frameworks i cut--i don't expect the topical offense to be very useful! i always put a lot of work into cutting aff cases, insisted on cutting my own affs, and cared a lot about their frameworks. in chronological order:
- sen fw about evaluative spaces.
- especially proud of the positive feedback loop argument in c3.
- this is the aff that got me my first w30 in a circuit round, so it holds a special place in my heart :)
- i also think that womens' education is super important and a really worthwhile cause w/ respect to solving virtually every global issue, like political stability/curing diseases/fighting climate change!
- used this framework a LOT throughout my years on the circuit--it's alisa's.
- something to note is that we made sure to diversify the contention offense so that we could develop multiple sources of offense versus any neg strat that was read.
- huge fan of seyla benhabib's work & in my opinion, there's virtually no philosopher who gets more right than she does
- thanks to john for help with the plan and contention offense.
- the aff i read for all of jan-feb, except the toc.
- i cut a util version of this aff too and read it intermittently, but i'm prouder of the butler framework and enjoyed defending it more.
- cut a new aff for toc--i wanted to read a deontological aff because i'd somehow never done that, but wanted to write a new framework
- my internship prof. and i had talked about nomy arpaly's book and i found julia markovits through researching kantian applications of nomy arpaly's work on praiseworthiness/motivational internalism.
- i think it's very cool that the authors in the framework are all women philosophers with innovative, modern rereadings of kant!!
misc. things
- answers to nebel specific to my septoct benhabib aff.
- particularly proud of the link turn to limits and incorporation of framework debate into the second standard of the ci :)
CD AT Westview RS Benhabib FW.docx
- got bored one day and wrote a theoretical response to rohith's benhabib fw.
- thanks to prof. marshall for inviting me to see prof. bierria speak! & thanks to prof. bierria for a fantastic talk.
- interacts well with kantian positions & bierria's theory of power has strong overlap with butler--i think this could definitely be used as a perm card that explains the interaction between butler & a race k.
CD PIC - White House (SO18).docx
- white house pic on reporters topic
- not really re-useable--but should be an okay example of what a pic is, what my frontlines looked like, and how i extended pics in the 2nr.
- thanks to john for helping w/ this one too!
CD Th - Must Spec Court Ruling (SO18 vs HWL).docx
- kris' idea, but i wrote this shell and read it against harvard westlake's scotus aff in septoct senior year.
- the general idea is that if affs spec scotus, they should spec the reasoning that justices use because the *actual* consequences of judicial rulings come from the reasoning & language used in courts' decisions.