Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: North Texas Anderson-Kersch | Judge: Weathers
The ideology that saw the Indigenous American as inferior and reducable was one that cast animal status upon them – it was the hallmark of their oppression, brutalization, and removal from lands and served as intellectual mold for America’s understanding of their position and plight.

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.54-56) RJG

The aforementioned native American Indians are yet another example of the tactics of colonization,
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colonizing control, visibility, as Foucault contends, surely was a trap. 

The affirmative’s unquestioning use of the law accepts the violent exclusionary nature of the creation of the law that comes from exclusion and the marking of beings who, equated to a notion of animality, may be uncriminally put to death.

Wolfe’12 (Cary ~Chair and the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor in
the Department of English at Rice University. His books include What
Is Posthumanism? and Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse
of Species, and Posthumanist Theory~ "Above the Law", Chicago University Press, p. 6-10)

 ¶ Here, then, we find the classic opposition, already familiar to
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problem that I want to devote my attention in the pages that follow. 

The refusal to explore the intersections of oppression and meaning enables legal definitions over what constitutes war and humanity, preventing a larger discussion of power structures, sanctioning war and violence.

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.

~Continues~

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.
This ongoing silence is not a neutral act, but rather actively participates in modes of oppression that serve as a prerequisite to mass extermination. This denies us the opportunity to gain the needed knowledge and skills necessary to challenge hegemonic 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.
These demarcations of value over who is granted personhood can be traced back historically through countless intersecting modes of oppression.

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, d/l: http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf-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 our alternative - Queering the non/human enables a new ethio-political ontology that produces a means without ends the shatters the world formations that structure oppression

O’Rourke 2008 (Michael, "Series Editor’s Preface: The Open by Michael O’Rourke," QUEERING THE NON/HUMAN, p. xviii-xxii) jl

This notion of allness is one I borrow from Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit who
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world, of beings-in-the-world, is born.

The ballot should be used to breakdown human subjectivity.
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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to the animal, the observable "constitutional" trait of certain races:

My opinion is, that the negroes, in respect to capacity for mental improvement
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seizes anything merely mechanical, whilst things demanding intelligence are beyond his reach.

What is interesting and disturbing about Gobineau’s conception of animality is that the animal has
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atavists – those who will attempt to prove that anatomy is surely destiny.

The Aff comes from a human centered milieu while the K explicitly rejects any possibility of a true ’human’. 

Hudson, 2k4 (Laura, Cultural Studies PhD UC-Davis, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare life, Mediations: Journal of Marxist Literary Group, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-political-animal)**

In his discussion of religion, Marx argues that the recognition of religion as the
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exploitation, how are we to envision the future of politics and society?

Human history begins with genocide, and the human-centric approach to the world has always resulted in mass genocide and destruction. Only a stance like the Alternative can solve.

Kochi and Ordan 2008 (Tarik Kochi is Lecturer at the School of Law, Queens University Belfast.  26 Noam Ordan, a linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel.; Borderlands, "An argument for the global suicide of humanity", http:/ /www.borderlands. net.au/vol7no3_ 2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf)

Certainly many organisms use ’force’ to survive and thrive at the expense of their others
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heritage best exemplified by the images of the gas chamber and the incinerator.

Otherization dates back to Aristotle’s approach to the animal, and has laid down the framework for all exclusion of humans from the moral community. 

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.7) RJG

The human/animal distinction was thus fixed quite early in Western thought. Aristotle
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the animal itself, as well as to "the animal in us."