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Ableism
Tournament: Shirley | Round: 2 | Opponent: George Mason Brown-Woodward | Judge: Weitz Individuals are not disabled the way they are forced to have their interactions in society makes those with disabilities less than human. It is the environment that constrains the ways in which people have to interact, not the disability that determines how one interacts in an environment. When individuals are unsuccessful in being able-bodied their bodies are marked as less than human, this is reflective of the way power operates at the highest level , those without ablebodied privilege are continually omitted from the social. The abled body keeps wanting the disabled body to look exactly like the abled body Stubbenfield 07 (Anna "Beyond the Pale": Tainted Whiteness, Cognitive Disability, and Eugenic Sterilization Hypatia, Volume 22, Number 2, Spring 2007, pp. 162-181 )
Just as feminists and critical race theorists have drawn distinctions between ¶ essentialist/biological AND time and reflect the ¶ agendas of those in positions of social power.
The affirmative asks us to sacrifice ourselves on their ableist altar of “gaze” and “vision”, ignoring the interconnected histories of racism and ableism. Longmore 09, professor of history and director of the Institute on Disability, ‘9 (Paul K.,“Making Disability and Essential Part of American History,” Organization of American Historians Magazine of History, Volume: 23, Issue 3, 2009, P. 16, LPS). One could go on citing example after example of the impact of “disability” AND our analyses as well as enriching our students' understanding of the American experience. Ableism operates as master trope illuminating the fundamental tactic of oppression—the naturalization of social inferiority as biological difference Siebers 09, University of Michigan, Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism, 9 Tobin, “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification”, Oct 28, Lecture, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CCoQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fdisabilities.temple.edu2Fmedia2Fds2Flecture20091028siebersAesthetics_FULL.docandei=LWz4T6jyN8bHqAHLkY2LCQandusg=AFQjCNGdkDuSJkRXMHgbXqvuyyeDpldVcQandsig2=UCGDC4tHbeh2j7-Yce9lsA, accessed 7/7/12) Oppression is the systematic victimization of one group by another. It is a form AND represents at this moment in time the final frontier of justifiable human inferiority. The alt is the revenge of the disabled body to reveal that all the ableist representations the aff propogates and to reveal that it's all fake; it's all mere representation. Reject the ableist representations of the 1AC the question of inclusion and mastery established in the affirmative’s ontology replicates the ableist project and forecloses the possibility of critique Campbell 2008 Fiona Kumari Convenor of the Disability Studies major in the School of Human Services, Griffith University. Existing in distant relation to Terra Abled, she inhabits the zone of peripheral subjectivities (crip, queer, south Asian and Jewish). Fiona is interested in ways technology and law create and recite disability. She is currently working on her first book Contours of Ableism. M/C Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) - 'able' Home Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism Georges Canguilhem (69) states “every generality is the sign of an essence AND truth-claims are dependent upon discourses of ableism for their very legitimization.
11/16/13
Chess K 1NC
Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cal Berkeley EM | Judge: Mauer There are always two chess games going on. One is on the top of the table, the other is below the table. The latter is the one that counts, but the Americans don't know how to play that game." When you play a game you should understand the plan and the ideas that are hidden in the position. There are many general concepts and plans to be learned which can be applied in your games later on. Study standard plans and positional ideas to be able to use them. When you play without a plan you are going to lose. Your pieces are going aimlessly here and there and are not working together like a unit to achieve a common goal. Often the pawn structure can show you where you should play, at the kingside or at the queenside. However, there are many chess strategies you should learn to become a good player. And it takes time too. So be patient. You don't become a master overnight.
This game is a chess game. Just like the United States chess game in the Middle East. Where they are willing to give up a few pawns but they really want is pieces, they are willing trade some lame duck presidents. Because, what they really want the main characters out the building.
They’re willing to trade the pawn which says individuals right to privacy, don’t need that. The other guy who used to be a player, Mubarak, became a pawn. They want the queen Iran, that’s the big prize. So they move the rook Syria so they can strike against the queen. We need to think ahead of the game. Don’t think they are not playing that here too. We need to not only think about the next move, but the reaction to our reactionary move. We must be ahead of the game. Sometimes these should not be done in public, honestly were not the only ones watching these moves.
Chess with its spaces of closed off potential is the game of the state and the game of the aff, the neg takes a relational approach with Go, we arrange ourself in open space, holding the space and having no specific point of departure or arrival Leach 2011 (Neil Leach, professor of Archaeology at the University of Southern California, “The War Machine vs. The State Apparatus | An analysis of Urban Growth and Practices” , July 1st 2011, http://nicfriend.com/the-war-machine-vs-the-state-apparatus-an-analysis-of-urban-growth-and-practices/) Deleuze describes the State Apparatus and the War Machine in terms of Game Theory, AND be obeying pure reason, in other words, yourself…” 6
The aff’s political theatre is a chessboard every piece over-identified with its own specific purpose Bacevich 02 (Andrew, “American Empire The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy”, Andrew J. Bacevich, Sr. is a professor of international relations at Boston University and a retired career officer in the United States Army. He is a former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), and author of several books, Harvard University Press, 2002) Few scholars specializing in American diplomatic history today accept such an outline of twentieth century AND common vision and conform in practice to a strategic consensus of long standing.
They treat geopolitics as an infinite game of chess. We should not fear possible extinction in pursuing these lines of flight, the ballot should rather embrace these moments of zero-intensity inside extinction for the possibility of a new intensity to emerge Aima 09 (Rahel Aima is a student at Columbia University and writer/blogger, “In the beginning was the language, and the language was gravity”, http://killingdenouement.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/in-the-beginning-was-the-language-and-the-language-was-gravity/, April 13, 2009) In the beginning was the language, and the language was gravity. Before the AND primordial prison, we are finally irrational, ex-tinctual and free.?
We have to stop playing Chess completely failure to do so causes non-redemptive destruction Robinson 8(Andre Robinson, political theorist and writer for Crossfire an online magazine, “In Theory Why Deleuze (still) matters: States, war-machines and radical transformation”, September 10th 2010, ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-deleuze-war-machine/) So what, in Deleuzian theory, is the alternative to the state? Deleuze AND social movements are forced into conflict by the state’s drive to repress difference.
The alternative is to blowup the chessboard with the queer war machine Tuhkanen 08 Queer Guerrillas: on Richard Wright's and Frantz Fanon's dissembling revolutionaries The Mississippi Quarterly 0026-637X Tuhkanen, Mikko yr:2008 vol:61 iss:4 pg:615 -642 If Bigger momentarily circulates in the white economy as something of a counterfeit--he AND territory, perfectly visible yet unreadable to the colonizers' gaze. (10)
9/26/13
Rape Culture K
Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 4 | Opponent: Trinity Vail-Yorko | Judge: Albiniak This argument is a critique of the hypersexuality/sexism in debate space and how that affects intersectionality marginalized bodies. The way that we read it against Trinity included a narrative and a couple of cards about how compulsory sexuality impacts disabled and/or asexual bodies. We did not read an alternative/counter advocacy.
In the hypersexualized debate space I am trapped in a constant double bind of being disabled, female, and asexual, leaving my body as both an object to de-sexualize and a site to be conquered. Qualmann 12 (Jo Qualmann is a contributor to The Asexual Agenda and owner of A Life Unexamined, “Sex Scribbled on my Skin: body politics and sexuality” http://alifeunexamined.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/sex-scribbled-on-my-skin-body-politics-and-sexuality/) sbb Despite sex being so naturalised in our society, there are still a multitude of AND not unless we make a conscious effort to understand them and reclaim them.
Compulsory sexuality positions the asexual body outside of rape culture, allowing coercive rape to happen to us. TransPolyAce 09 (TransPolyAce is a well known intersectionality blog, the author writes anonymously. “Asexuality and Rape” 2 Nov 2009. http://transpolyasexual.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/asexuality-and-rape/) sbb That problem is how asexuals are exceptionally prone to the outskirts of the rape culture AND ” for no reason other than our messed up sexual and relationship mores.
9/21/13
Revenge of the Disabled Body
Tournament: Usc | Round: 2 | Opponent: California, Berkeley Frazer-Idriss | Judge: Bankey 1NC K We must reject actuarial logic and prioritize everyday acts of violence — it is the largest proximal cause of genocide and interstate war
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois, 2004 (Nancy, Professor of Anthropology at University of California Berkeley, Philippe , Professor of Anthropology at University of Pennsylvania, “Introduction: Making Sense of Violence”, Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
Absolutely central to our approach is a blurring of categories and distinctions between wartime and AND as a chronic "state of emergency" (Taussig, Chapter 31).
The politics of the 1AC are grounded in able-bodied patriarchal constructions of nationhood Soldatic and Biyanwila 2006 Karen and Janaka Graduate School of Education; Organisational and Labour Studies;University of Western Australia, disability and Development: A Critical Southern Standpointon Able-Bodied Masculinity, T ASA Conference 2006, University of Western Australia and Murdoch University, 4-7 December 2006 TASA 2006 Conference Proceedings Authoritarian ethno-nationalism, nature and able-bodied patriarchy While strengthening conditions for AND is significant for elaborating a critical Southern standpoint on able-bodied masculinity.
The alt is the revenge of the disabled body to reveal that all the ableist representations the aff propogates and to reveal that it's all fake; it's all mere representation. Reject the ableist representations of the 1AC the question of inclusion and mastery established in the affirmative’s ontology replicates the ableist project and forecloses the possibility of critique
Campbell 2008 Fiona Kumari Convenor of the Disability Studies major in the School of Human Services, Griffith University. Existing in distant relation to Terra Abled, she inhabits the zone of peripheral subjectivities (crip, queer, south Asian and Jewish). Fiona is interested in ways technology and law create and recite disability. She is currently working on her first book Contours of Ableism. M/C Journal, Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) - 'able' Home Vol. 11, No. 3 (2008) Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism Georges Canguilhem (69) states “every generality is the sign of an essence AND truth-claims are dependent upon discourses of ableism for their very legitimization.
1/3/14
Stop the Silence K
Tournament: SFSUGGSO | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno State Holley-Tate | Judge: Ziering This argument is a critique of the hypersexuality/sexism in debate space and how that affects intersectionality marginalized bodies. The way that we read it against Fresno included a narrative and these cards. We did not read an alternative/counter advocacy, but we do read a ROB about making debate a safe space as a prerequisite for any other action.
1NC
In the hypersexualized debate space I am trapped in a constant bind of being disabled, female, and asexual, marking my body as an object to de-sexualize and a site to be conquered. Qualmann 12 (Jo Qualmann is a contributor to The Asexual Agenda and owner of A Life Unexamined, “Sex Scribbled on my Skin: body politics and sexuality” http://alifeunexamined.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/sex-scribbled-on-my-skin-body-politics-and-sexuality/) sbb Despite sex being so naturalised in our society, there are still a multitude of AND not unless we make a conscious effort to understand them and reclaim them.
Compulsory sexuality positions the asexual body outside of rape culture, allowing coercive rape to happen to us. TPA 09 (TransPolyAce is a well known intersectionality blog, the author writes anonymously. “Asexuality and Rape” 2 Nov 2009. http://transpolyasexual.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/asexuality-and-rape/) sbb That problem is how asexuals are exceptionally prone to the outskirts of the rape culture AND ” for no reason other than our messed up sexual and relationship mores.
And the very culture of this activity allows sexual violence against women to flourish. Eisenberg 12 (Stephanie, Professor at California State University Northridge, “Speaking from the Margins: Negotiating Barriers to Women’s Participation and Success in Policy Debate “, Paper presented at WFA February 2012) ds While I initially planned to explore barriers primarily related to style and content of ¶ AND and Western society, women essentially become ¶ faceless in conversations about sexuality.
Rape culture isn’t about you saying that rape is good, but by not actively rejecting it at every opportunity, you are complicit in it. Najumi 13 (Mohadesa Najumi writing for the Feminist Wire, “We Live in a Rape Culture” 9 Jun 2013 http://thefeministwire.com/2013/06/we-live-in-a-rape-culture/) sbb Rape culture is the condoning and normalizing of physical, emotional and sexual terrorism against AND drunk and have sex with them (i.e. American Pie).
You can use your ballot to influence this activity – the assumption that your ballot has no political power only reinforces a patriarchal pedagogy. Eisenberg 12 (Stephanie Eisenberg is a former competitor from SFSU, and a former coach from SFSU. “WHAT WE SAAID: BUILDING COMMUNITY and BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS TO WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN POLICY DEBATE” 20 Apr 2012) sbb Another male judge states in his philosophy that he is unhappy with the way that AND ¶ that there are various perspectives on the notion of a politicized judge.
Sexism in debate is so perverse that it goes unnoticed and unchecked. It becomes normalized through positive reinforcement by our own community. Le, et al 13 (Shelly Le, Rachel Alexander and Karah Kemmerly, writing for the Whitman Pioneer, “As Longtime Coach Steps Down, Debate Culture Under Scrutiny” 20 May 2013, http://whitmanpioneer.com/news/2013/05/20/debate-culture-under-scrutiny/) sbb Alumnus Ethan Robertson ‘13, who was a debater on the parliamentary team from AND that a thing that I should have done?’” he said.
9/30/13
Stop the Silence K -- CSUN
Tournament: Csun | Round: 2 | Opponent: CSU Northridge Agbonwaneten-Lindo | Judge: Renfree This argument is a critique of the hypersexuality/sexism in debate space and how that affects intersectionality marginalized bodies. The way that we read it against CSUN included a narrative and these cards. We read this same argument in every neg round at CSUN
Compulsory sexuality is the logic that allows this experience to happen to me, a logic that says that bodies are required to be sexual for the benefit of others. This compulsory sexuality traps me in a constant bind of being disabled, female, and asexual, marking my body as an object to de-sexualize and a site to be conquered. Qualmann 12 (Jo Qualmann is a contributor to The Asexual Agenda and owner of A Life Unexamined, “Sex Scribbled on my Skin: body politics and sexuality” http://alifeunexamined.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/sex-scribbled-on-my-skin-body-politics-and-sexuality/) sbb Despite sex being so naturalised in our society, there are still a multitude of AND not unless we make a conscious effort to understand them and reclaim them.
This misogyny in debate is so perverse that it goes unnoticed and unchecked. It becomes normalized through positive reinforcement by our own community. Le, et al 13 (Shelly Le, Rachel Alexander and Karah Kemmerly, writing for the Whitman Pioneer, “As Longtime Coach Steps Down, Debate Culture Under Scrutiny” 20 May 2013, http://whitmanpioneer.com/news/2013/05/20/debate-culture-under-scrutiny/) sbb Alumnus Ethan Robertson ‘13, who was a debater on the parliamentary team from AND that a thing that I should have done?’” he said.
Compulsory sexuality positions the asexual body outside of rape culture, allowing coercive rape to happen. TPA 09 (TransPolyAce is a well known intersectionality blog, the author writes anonymously. “Asexuality and Rape” 2 Nov 2009. http://transpolyasexual.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/asexuality-and-rape/) sbb That problem is how asexuals are exceptionally prone to the outskirts of the rape culture AND ” for no reason other than our messed up sexual and relationship mores.
And the very culture of this activity allows sexual violence against women to flourish, objectifying women in the debate space. Eisenberg 12 (Stephanie, Professor at California State University Northridge, “Speaking from the Margins: Negotiating Barriers to Women’s Participation and Success in Policy Debate “, Paper presented at WFA February 2012) ds While I initially planned to explore barriers primarily related to style and content of argumentation AND academy and Western society, women essentially become faceless in conversations about sexuality.
The role of the ballot is to make the debate space a safe space for everyone who is participating. The debate space is not just this round, but also the hotel lobbies, and the van rides, and the squad rooms. Your ballot influences this activity – any assumption that your ballot has no political power only reinforces patriarchal pedagogies. Eisenberg 12 (Stephanie Eisenberg is a former competitor from SFSU, and a former coach from SFSU. “WHAT WE SAAID: BUILDING COMMUNITY and BREAKING DOWN BARRIERS TO WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN POLICY DEBATE” 20 Apr 2012) sbb Another male judge states in his philosophy that he is unhappy with the way that AND indicates that there are various perspectives on the notion of a politicized judge.
Coercive rape, victim blaming, and slut shaming happens here at home -- women in debate are coerced into sexually compromising positions, blamed and shamed when they report such incidents, and targeted for retribution when they refuse to engage sexually with other debaters and judges. Rothfeld 13 (Becca Rothfeld is a former debater and student at Dartmouth, “The Girl Who Magically Transcended/Overcame Her Femininity” 25 Sept 2013 http://dmouth.com/blog/?author=51a53640e4b07c0410aac583) sbb In the debate community, my sexuality often seemed like the best bargaining chip available AND to identify and therefore difficult to remedy, it warrants consideration and concern.
11/12/13
The Wars at Home
Tournament: Usc | Round: 4 | Opponent: North Texas Quinn-McCullough | Judge: Guevara We read our new aff against NoTx in this round -- please see aff entry "The Wars at Home".
1/4/14
vs Concordia SCUM
Tournament: Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Concordia College Bosch-Snelling | Judge: Cook The 1AC participates in a politics where non-speaking is painted with a negative spin — our counteradvocacy is necessary for injecting critical reflexivity into their ideas Davis 1995 (Lennard, Deafness and Insight: The Deafened Moment as a Critical Modality, College English, Vol. 57, No. 8 (Dec., 1995), pp. 881-900 JK) In thinking about literature, "normal" people have tended to create categories ¶ AND we highlight the buried assumptions of ¶ the process of reading/writing.
The body determines the way that their arguments develop their meaning Creal 1999 (Lee Davis, “THE "DISABILITY OF THINKING" THE "DISABLED" BODY”, Course Paper for Ambiguous Bodies: Studies in Contemporary Sexuality, York University, http://www.broadreachtraining.com/advocacy/artcreal.htm) In "Lived Bodies: Phenomenology and the Flesh," Elizabeth Grosz cites the work AND being through a larger social/political Matrix" (Davis: 14).
Their politics govern standardized perspectives on communication and reproduce ethnocentric violence, turning the case. Bauman 2008 (H Dirksen, Gallaudet University, “Listening to Phonocentrism with Deaf Eyes: Derrida’s Mute Philosophy of (Sign) Language” http://commons.pacificu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1288andcontext=eip, JK) The voice, Derrida believes is more than a means of communicating—it is AND placing it as wider orientation that¶ would beget audism (Bauman 2004).
Only the counter advocacy breaks away from western epistemology Davis 1995 (Lenard Davis, Deafness and Insight: The Deafened Moment as a Critical Modality, College English, Vol. 57, No. 8 (Dec., 1995), pp. 881-900) sbb Why should blindness be so foregrounded? Perhaps the simplest answer is that blindness implies AND , most people assume we are no longer dealing with language as such.
The affirmative’s disembodied approach reproduces ego politics of knowledge- it assumes their epistemology can be decoupled from hierarchies of power- this epistemic location reproduces patriarchy and coloniality- prefer de-linking from this power matrix through our body politics of knowledge Grosfoguel 11 (Ramon Grosfugel is a Professor of Diversity Studies at UC Berkeley, “Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political-Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality”, TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, pg.4-5 MR) The first point to discuss is the contribution of racial/ethnic and feminist¶ AND objectivity of the ego-politics of¶ knowledge is a Western myth.
2/14/14
vs Fresno HT Quarters at Cal Chico
Tournament: Cal Chico | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Fresno State Tate-Holley | Judge: Dunn, Fifelski, McBride 1NC The affirmative relies on a politics of visibility in order to function – womanism is based on making the black female body visible. Race and gender scholars often advance their advocacies through ableist discourse – this shortcircuits their ability to ever create coalitions. May and Ferri ‘05 (Vivian M. May and Beth A. Ferri “Fixated on Ability Questioning Ableist Metaphors in Feminist Theories of Resistance” Prose Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1and2 April-August 2005, http://www.academia.edu/227091/Fixated_on_Ability_Questioning_Ableist_Metaphors_in_Feminist_Theories_of_ResistanceAbs) Examples such as these, which construct disability in opposition to rationality or which romanticize AND highlighting the negative repercussions of unearned privileges other than those associated with ableism. This means the affirmative reproduces the logic of racism, sexism, and classism Wolbring 8 (Gregor, Society for Int’l Dev’t, http://www.gvsu.edu/cms3/assets/3B8FF455-E590-0E6C-3ED0F895A6FBB287/the_politics_of_ableism.pdf) Sexism is partly driven by a form of ableism that favours certain abilities, and AND them to social positions, make them fit for specific duties and occupation. The consumption of blackness into academic solipsism calcifies colonial power. The university is a safe space that grants critique as a way to sustain academic and colonial hegemony. At best, a vote for them is a hollow victory, at worst it’s a victory for the system. Occupied UC Berkeley 09 The Necrosocial Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC. Occupied UC Berkeley, 18 November 2009. The university steals and homogenizes our time yes, our bank accounts also, but AND our very moments here together into a set of legible and fruitless demands. This commodification is premised on the confession of their subject, in which only the authoritative listener grants truth to their narrative Eribon, Lucey 01 Eribon, Didier. Lucey, Michael, Michel Foucault's Histories of Sexuality GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies - Volume 7, Number 1, 2001, pp. 31-8 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_lesbian_and_gay_studies/v007/7.1eribon.html Foucault's proposition is to write the history of sexuality in terms of sexuality's "production AND into specific individuals" (HS1, 43-44; translation modified). Ableism operates as an ordering logic that illuminates the fundamental tactic of oppression through the “naturalization” of social inferiority as biological difference Siebers 09, University of Michigan, Professor of Literary and Cultural Criticism, 9 Tobin, “The Aesthetics of Human Disqualification”, Oct 28, Lecture, http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CCoQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fdisabilities.temple.edu2Fmedia2Fds2Flecture20091028siebersAesthetics_FULL.docandei=LWz4T6jyN8bHqAHLkY2LCQandusg=AFQjCNGdkDuSJkRXMHgbXqvuyyeDpldVcQandsig2=UCGDC4tHbeh2j7-Yce9lsA, accessed 7/7/12) Oppression is the systematic victimization of one group by another. It is a form AND represents at this moment in time the final frontier of justifiable human inferiority. The disabled body transformation of the disabled body from human into monsters of modernity. Campbell 13 (Fiona Kumari, AssociateProfessor in Law, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, Australia and Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Department of Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya ,Sri Lanka, “Re-cognising Disability: Cross-Examining Social Inclusion through the Prism of Queer Anti-Sociality”, JIndal Global law revIew volume 4, Issue 2, november 2013)
The disabled body has been configured as the site of monstrosity ¶ and unthinkability, AND that is anti-social enables the reclaiming of a disability ¶ style. We don’t have an alternative text but we do have an alternative -- Puar 09 (Jasbir K. Puar*Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA, Women and Performance: a journal of feminist theory Vol. 19, No. 2, July 2009, 161–172) Out of the numerous possibilities that ‘‘assemblage theory’’ offers, much of it has AND outcome, the literalism of its object nor the direction of its drive.