Tournament: Usc | Round: 4 | Opponent: Emory Jones-Sigalos | Judge: Regnier

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Starts with a discussion of California's relation to speciesism

The 1AC’s discussion of the law of war ignores how the law’s original objective was to uphold the human as something worth protecting by whatever means necessary. This sanctions the ongoing species war that kills millions of non-human animals a second for trivial human interests, which is rendered invisible by the amorphous definitions of war and humanity.

Kochi 9 (Tarik;  Law, Culture, and the Humanities, "Species War: Law, Violence, and Animals", 353-359)

In everyday speech, in the words of the media, politicians, protestors,
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suggestion that at the foundation of the Law of war resides species war.

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Grotius and Hobbes are sometimes described as setting out a prudential approach,28 or
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of life preferred for preservation within the early modern juridical ordering of war.

Their interrogation of racism is an elision that ignores the the species war’s creation of race and modern warfare. Modern Racism is a bound with a history of the construction of the civilized human held in contrast to the ’uncivilized animal races’ who merely look or pose as humans.

Roberts 08 (Mark S. Roberts, member of the Department of Philosophy at Suffolk County Community College in New York. The Mark of the Beast: Animality and Human Oppression ISBN: 978-1-55753-474-3 P.17-20) RJG

Theories of racial inferiority have a long and lamentable history in the West, but
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as Kant and Lessing had observed, in ’inner constitution.’"
According to his "empirical" method, what Gobineau referred to as "elements
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the question of rectitude, particularly the necessity of intellect in reflective morality.
Nevertheless, Gobineau’s conception of animality goes much further than the mere lack or the "partial latency" of moral reflection in certain races. For him, the presence of animality indicates a fundamental, unalterable nature that is markedly inferior and clearly demonstrable in terms of physical characteristics. For example:

Let us suppose him now to examine another individual: a negro, from the
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so formed, we are involuntarily reminded of the structure of the ape.

One gets the distinct impression here that we are confronted with a "specimen"
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particular senses, whereas humans tend primarily to utilize cognitive and intellectual functions.
The ascription of animality here, however, is not limited to comparative anatomy alone
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atavists – those who will attempt to prove that anatomy is surely destiny.

Silence on these events is not a neutral act, but actively condones mass extermination. We need to bring these issues to light to promote the knowledge and skills necessary to challenge institutions of power.

Spiegel 1996 (Marjorie ~founder for the Institute for the Development of Earth Awareness~ The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal Slavery, New York, Mirror Books) p.69-77 jl

What is at work here in both these instances, is an attempt by society
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why they have come to commit their violence and crave control over others.

The Animal Enemy is constituted through the imaginary boundaries of identity, nationalism, and other binaries. The obliteration of this foreign Other is the foundation of all wars.

Iveson 10/05/2013 (~Richard: PhD from the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London; research interests include critical animal studies and animal liberation; continental philosophy (with focus on Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida); posthumanism amongst others.~, "Zoogenesis: Thinking Encounter with Animals," pgs. 193-196, pdf) be

Such problematising of the friend-enemy dichotomy thus inevitably returns us to the place
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, we find yet another question of the nonplace of¶ the Origin.

Our project excavates a history of oppression grounded in hierarchies. The logic of speciesism is intertwined with other discriminatory divisions created by race, capitalism, and patriarchy. We do not make root cause claims, but argue that we must focus on both the international institutions and personal actions that power this logic.

Best ’07 (~Steven: Associate Professor, Departments of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso~, Journal for critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, "The Eternal Treblinka...Reviewed by Dr. Steven Best," Pages 2-5, 13-15, d/l: http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf) be

It is little understood that the first form of oppression, domination, and hierarchy
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through the same rail lines paths used to¶ transport and slaughter animals.

Thus, we affirm the absent referent of the resolution. The species war is constantly referred to on this topic, such as when we look at the "dehumanization" that occurs in indefinite detention centers, but the implied dead animals are always missing.

Illuminating the oppression of animals is necessary to fight that of those humans who are treated "like animals" by revealing the bigotry behind both.

Adams 2010 (~Carol J: adjunct professor at perkins school of theology and a vegetarian feminist activist~), The Continuum International Publishing Group, "The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory," pgs. 90-91, pdf) be

When radical feminists talk as if cultural exchanges with animals¶ are literally true in
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worldview that accepts meat eating¶ and the muted minority viewpoint of vegetarianism.