Blake Invitational 1 Kamiak nb aff

29 Dallastown EW Aff

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Aff Race

Spaces like debate allow the prison system to normalize itself – it permeates our ideology and distorts our horizons to convince us that liberation is impossible. Thus, the role of the ballot is to resist the prison industrial complex.

Rodriguez 10 Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies @ UC Riverside Dylan Rodríguez, “The Disorientation of the Teaching Act: Abolition as Pedagogical Position,” Radical Teacher, Number 88 (Summer 2010) The (Pedagogical) Necessity of the Impossible

Thus, I affirm the resolution as an embrace of the politics of the impossible – we demand a world in which we abolish plea bargaining and the prison system it sustains.

Undoing the reproduction of the prison system means embracing what we see as impossible – our imaginations are constantly limited by the naturalizing nature of the prison regime.

Loyd 11 Dr. Jenna M. Loyd, “American Exceptionalism, Abolition and the Possibilities for Nonkilling Futures,” Nonkilling Geography

And put away your reformism bad turns – the aff engages in non-reformist reforms, which use decarceration as a method with the overall goal of abolition to undermine the very logics that produce traditional reformism in the first place.

Sudbury 08 Julia, Metz Professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College. Activist in the prison abolitionist movement. Co-founder of Critical Resistance, a national abolitionist organization. “Rethinking Global Justice: Black Women Resist the Transnational Prison-Industrial Complex”, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume 10, Issue 4

First is flipping the script

Plea bargains represent the consolidation of power in the hands of the state and its abuse – it greases the wheels of the criminal justice system, not so that it can protect people, but so that it can continue to bludgeon people into false guilty pleas and incarcerate marginalized populations under the guise of “stopping crime.”

Yoffe 17, Emily. journalist and contributing editor for The Atlantic.1 From 2009 to 2016 she was a regular contributor to Slate magazine, notably as Dear Prudence. She has also written for The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; The Washington Post; Esquire; The Los Angeles Times https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/innocence-is-irrelevant/534171/

Refusing plea bargains would flip the script – the prison system needs our complicity to maintain control, abolishing the act of plea bargaining is a refusal of state power over us

Alexander 12, Michelle. March 11.http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/11/opinion/sunday/go-to-trial-crash-the-justice-system.html served for several years as director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California. Alexander directed the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School and was a law clerk for Justice Harry Blackmun at the U. S. Supreme Court. she specialized in plaintiff-side class action suits alleging race and gender discrimination. Alexander now sits on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York as a Visiting Professor of Social Justice.4. 2010 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

Second is disrupting the flow

Plea bargaining is legalized extortion by the state that explodes prison growth – abolitionism is key to disrupt the flow of mass incarceration.

Weil 12 – Dr. Danny Weil, teacher, author, journalist. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/12556-overwhelming-use-of-plea-bargains-plays-major-role-in-mass-incarceration

AND Plea bargaining fuels the prison industrial complex by increasing prosecution, especially of racial minorities.

Savitsky 09 Douglas Savitsky August 2009 “THE PROBLEM WITH PLEA BARGAINING: DIFFERENTIAL SUBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING AS AN ENGINE OF RACIAL DISPARITY IN THE UNITED STATES PRISON SYSTEM” Cornell University https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/handle/1813/13836/Savitsky,20Douglas.pdf;jsessionid=0AAC19B2A2420331181521CDD9B50D0E?sequence=1

29 Dallastown EW Neg

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K Race, Habeas Viscus

Abolishing plea bargaining is just another attempt to incorporate people into the legal system, which instead of counteracting oppression simply re-entrenches the divide between the human and not-quite-human via centering the law. Rather, we should focus on methods that operate within the liminal spaces of that which the law cannot contain.

Weheliye 14 Alexander Weheliye, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, “Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human,”

Carceral reform cannot untie itself from its history of violence – leftist reform continues to reinforce state power by attempting to include people into spheres of legal recognition. Sure, we can abolish plea bargaining, but that just forces people into trials where they are still marked for death and leaves intact the system itself.

Lamble 14 Sarah Lamble, “Queer Investments in Punishment” in Queer Necropolitics, pg. 163-164

This creates the conditions for the European Man to make himself the universal human – racializing assemblages naturalize demarcations between human and not-quite-human. Rather, we should question the very nature of humanity. Thus, the role of the ballot is to deconstruct the European Man.

Weheliye 2 Alexander Weheliye, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, “Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human,”

Thus I affirm the method of Habeas Viscus, we understand the potentiality in the hieroglyphics of the flesh and turn them into lines of flight – rather than dialectically oppose Man, we affirm this freedom in order to create alternate genres of humanity.

Weheliye 3 Alexander Weheliye, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, “Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human,”

K Queer Nihilism

The state is anti-queer. Violence becomes inevitable because the world is founded on the abuse and domination over queer bodies, which the aff’s defense of a “nation” through national service perpetuates

Mary Nardini gang 2009 (criminal queers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin “toward the queerest insurrection” 2009)

A fag is … for the Totality.

Thus the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best performatively and methodologically challenges queer oppression.

Violence against queer folk is rooted in an attempt to erase queerness which is a form of overkill - Overkill is ontologically different from other types of violence-it’s more than an attempt to do violence unto a body, it’s an attempt to do violence unto all queer bodies. Don’t let them weigh case - their impact calculus will never understand what it means to do violence to that which is nothing.

Stanley 11 (Eric, Sad Gay “Near Life, Queer Death Overkill and Ontological Capture,” Social Text 107 s Vol. 29, No. 2 s Summer 2011) EW

Overkill is a… what is nothing.

The alternative is Queer Nihilism-A continuous struggle of negativity against every possible form of civil society. This is a recognition that there is no space for the queer within the symbolic order and never will be and that the only life worth living is one of inevitable struggle in which we ascribe ourselves to the death drive. There is no perm-we are an embrace of the inherent destruction of society, the 1AC embraces it in some form.

Baedan 12 "Baedan." The Anarchist Library. N.p., Summer 2012. Web. 02 Nov. 2016.

Leftist notions of … its own terms.

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