Blake Invitational 1 Kamiak nb aff

24 Evanston ES Neg

https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Evanston/Sperti+Neg

K Race – Black Trans

The 1AC engages in a symbolic system steeped in violence. Their attempts at coherent representation and/or material change evade the originating metaphors of captivity and the total objectification of the flesh.

Spillers 87:

Hortense Spiller, Professor of English at Vanderbilt University, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” Diacritics, 1987, https://people.ucsc.edu/~nmitchel/hortense_spillers_-_mamas_baby_papas_maybe.pdf, 67-68.

“These undecipherable markings … will most certainly kill us.”

The use of humanism is premised on the non-being of the black woman. Their (universal theorizing, account of oppression, triumphant progress narrative) all reproduce black woman as unspeakable. This argument is about the erasure of black women, and also their reliance on a humanism which makes that erasure inevitable.

Spillers 03:

Hortense J. Spillers, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University and Black Feminist scholar. Black, white, and in color, 2003, University of Chicago Press.

“My own interpretation ….“blacks” and “other.””

Their conceptual investment in being requires trans nonexistence. Their (empiricism, positivism, description, coherence) strengthens the matrix of gratuitous violence forged into the non-existence of black trans-women. This argument is about the erasure of black trans-women, and also how their ontological assumptions further erasure.

Hayward 17:

Eva S. Hayward, Professor of Gender and Women Studies at Arizona University, Don’t Exist, Transgender Studies Quarterly, 2017

““Don’t exist” is an imperative, …, for addressing antitrans violence? ”

The alternative is to reject the affirmative through a black trans procedure. Black trans offers as a speculative function that unravels ontological humanism.

Warren 17:

Calvin Warren, Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, Called into Being, Transgender Studies Quarterly 2017, 271-272

“Within this context, “… creates ontologically. ”

The role of the ballot is to endorse whoever best contributes to a grammar of violence. We need a language for which to understand anti-blackness as a PRECONDITION for devising political strategy and forming public argument. (Material and political framing of the 1AC cannot address symbolic capture. It only erases the unresolvability and inexpressibility of non-being.)

Sexton 10:

The latter task – …arts more generally (Barrett 1999;

A grammatical focus is key because present abolitionist praxes must be primarily pedagogical. Pragmatism, liberalism, and reformism have made liberationist dreams unspeakable. We need room to articulate abolition in spaces like these. This means the role of the judge betray genocide management and embrace a fundamental epistemic disorientation.

Rodriguez 10:

Dylan Rodriguez, Professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside, The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Aboliton as a Pedagogical Position, The Radical Teacher, 2010, 16-17

“I have had little trouble … of pedagogical audacity.”

25 Whitman DH Aff

https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Walt+Whitman/Harris+Aff

Theory Disclose Citations

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Theory Disclosure

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Theory Spec Text/Spirit

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K Wilderson While White

You objectify black experiences by commodifying their arguments to win debates – performative contradiction of being non-black and running afro-pessimism.

Evans 15

(Evans, Rashad, Rashad Evans coached the only college debate team to ever win both the National Debate Tournament (NDT) and Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) national championships in the same season. Mr. Evans has successfully coached both high school and college debaters and across all levels of debate including novice, junior varsity and open. As a competitor, Mr. Evans was a national champion debater at the University of West Georgia, winning the CEDA National Debate Championship as a sophomore in college. He also reached the semifinals of the NDT and the late elimination rounds of all major college debate tournaments. While in college, Mr. Evans was selected by the American Debate Association to train high school and college debaters in Russia, Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. As a high school debater, Mr. Evans was named the best individual speaker at the prestigious Barkeley Forum debate tournament at Emory University. In between winning a national championship and coaching a national championship, Mr. Evans attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was also a legal writing instructor. He practiced corporate law for several years in New York City and now brings this depth of experience and training to the classroom and debate tournaments….Mr. Evans has significant coaching experience spanning 15 years. He has served as Director of Debate at the University of Florida, UC-Irvine, Washington University at St. Louis and Western Connecticut State University. Mr. Evans has also served as a contract coach for many other universities including Rutgers University, University of Oklahoma, University of Vermont, University of Puget Sound and Emporia State University. Mr. Evans has also taught at many of the top summer debate camps including at the University of Michigan, UC-Berkeley, Columbia University, Wake Forest University, Emory University and University of Missouri at Kansas City. He has also worked with students from several Urban Debate Leagues including Jersey, New York, Atlanta, Kansas City and Baltimore. “On White Afro-pessimism” http://fivefouraff.com/2015/08/21/on-white-afro-pessimism/)

Afropessimism is nothing

AND

has gone wrong.

Drop them.

Aff Race

Ethics begins with a distinction – ideal theory assumes an idealized conception of the subject and derives ethics and obligations from that, and non-ideal theory begins by examining the oppression within society as a starting point for ethics.

Ideal theory fails to properly frame subjugated histories - mistakes are framed as slip ups rather than overarching trends.

Mills 06

Charles W. Mills, social and political philosopher. “’Ideal Theory’ Ideology” Hypatia Summer 2006, pp. 181-182. Copy on file. WWDH

So the abstractions

AND

of the nonideal.

Implications:

a) Ideal theory can never be a method of solving oppression because the framing can still justify the erasure of oppression.

b) Reasons that a framework can be used well isn’t enough – you have to show that it can take into account histories of oppression and then derive obligations from that.

c) Ideal theory collapses to non-ideal theory because only non-ideal theory ensures the ideal.

And, ideal theory fails to give a proper account of how to act because it presumes perfect conditions, meaning it cannot be binding to an agent.

Mills 2

pp. 171 WWDH

So these are

AND

just completely implausible?

This means

a) Ideal universalized frameworks cannot be binding to an agent who chooses to reject its universalism.

b) Accepting ideal theory is an endorsement of oppression and erasure of subjugated histories.

Thus, the standard is resisting oppression.

Additionally prefer:

Assuming the standpoint of the oppressed is the only way to avoid idealizing in a way that privileges the already privileged. This means the AC is a prior question to your framework which has been produced in an epistemically skewed environment.

Mills 3

The crucial common

AND

may be misleading.

2. Oppression comes before the NC.

a) arbitrariness – identity is morally arbitrary, so allowing discrimination undermines the foundation of a moral theory

b) inclusion is an epistemological prerequisite – oppression is the biggest impact since we can’t form moral theories until all those affected are included by it

c) any theory that condones an unequal societal order should be rejected since it would not be accepted by those at the bottom – this makes it useless as a political philosophy, which must be justifiable to the citizens who the government rules over.

Absolute link defense - Fighting oppression is not a bad thing, it’s necessary for opening up the spaces that make the alt possible in the first place – one of the most qualified authors says so in an interview. Prefer this over their Kritik because a) Wilderson is an authority on afropess and what works more than anyone else b) even if there’s a warrant in the K that responds to this it’s more likely that you’re wrong than an author in the field is. But you also have to respond to the internal warrants.

Wilderson 16

Frank B. Wilderson III (your author) interviewed by Samira Spatzek and Paula von Gleich, “‘The Inside-Outside of Civil Society’: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III.” Academia.edu, Black Studies Papers, 2.1 (2016): 4–22, https://www.academia.edu/26032053/_The_Inside-Outside_of_Civil_Society_An_Interview_with_Frank_B._Wilderson_III WWDH

The question is

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for police reforms.

Offense

I defend the resolution as a general principle, but I am open to specification.

Advantage 1

Plea bargains perpetuate mass incarceration against people of color by allowing more prosecutions.

Weil 12

Danny Weil, (Danny Weil is a writer for Project Censored and Daily Censored.) "Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration" Truthout, 11-7-2012, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/12556-overwhelming-use-of-plea-bargains-plays-major-role-in-mass-incarceration, DOA:12-14-2017 WWBW

Plea bargains allow

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worse bargaining position.

The aff solves- it reduces incarceration and promotes a larger cultural shift.

Weil 2

Danny Weil, (Danny Weil is a writer for Project Censored and Daily Censored.) "Widespread Use of Plea Bargains Plays Major Role in Mass Incarceration" Truthout, 11-7-2012, http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/12556-overwhelming-use-of-plea-bargains-plays-major-role-in-mass-incarceration, DOA:12-14-2017 WWBW

As long as

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courage we need.

Advantage 2

Plea bargaining allows prosecutors to coerce people into pleading guilty.

Alkon 15

Cynthia Alkon, (Texas AandM University School of Law) "An Overlooked Key To Reversing Mass Incarceration: Reforming The Law To Reduce Prosecutorial Power In Plea Bargaining" Maryland Law Journal Of Race, Religion, Gender and Class, 2015, https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/860/, DOA:12-14-2017 WWBW

Plea bargaining, is

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increased incarceration rates.

Advantage 3

Special pressures and differential treatment are given to women by the criminal justice system to disproportionately prosecute and punish them through an emphasis of patriarchal gender roles

Jones 11

Under pressure: Women who plead guilty to crimes they have not committed Stephen Jones University of Bristol, UK 2011 Stephen Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol, where he has taught criminal law and criminology for many years. He is the author of the books Criminology (OUP) and Understanding Violent Crime (Oxford University Press). DOA 12/11/17 Premier

Special Pressures on

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the general population.

Plea bargains represent a system of patriarchal coercion where women are structurally oppressed by the criminal justice system and threatened to provide false confessions or bargain away their freedom

Jones 2

Under pressure: Women who plead guilty to crimes they have not committed Stephen Jones University of Bristol, UK 2011 Stephen Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Bristol, where he has taught criminal law and criminology for many years. He is the author of the books Criminology (OUP) and Understanding Violent Crime (Oxford University Press). DOA 12/11/17 Premier

A female thief

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female police officers.

Underview 1

1) On 1AR Theory:

a) It is legitimate.

b) It is Drop the Debater.

c) Is no RVI.

2) If the neg drops an AC argument that interacts with some argument in the NC, the argument from the AC wins.

Underview 2

The aff uses state as a heuristic which doesn’t affirm its legitimacy but allows enhanced governmental resistance.

Zanotti 14

Dr. Laura Zanotti (Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech) “Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database

By questioning substantialist

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and pessimistic activism.

The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.

Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) “Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact” Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17th 2005

An important concern

AND

in America today.

Discourses looking only at one element of oppression fail.

Crenshaw 91:

Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43.6 (1991): 1241–1299. JSTOR. Web.

The concept of

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women of color.

Disad outweighs any possible offense because a) leaving out perspectives will stratify your movement and cause infighting b) magnitude—more people impacted because over 50 percent of black people are either women and/or lgbtq and c) we can never be epistemically certain that one theory is true so failing to account for intersectionality leaves us skewed