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Ableism K
Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Irvine Perez-Andrade | Judge: Leeson-Schatz This framing of ethical advocacy and alliance as requiring one “to stand” perpetuates institutional ableism Brignell ‘7 Victoria, English MA and also uses a wheelchair, “Dominated by Ambulist metaphors,” October 30, http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/crips-column/2007/10/english-language-walk-stand More than once English language is "institutionally disablist".
Their use of ocular metaphors like gaze to imply lack of knowledge is rooted in ableist assumptions, AND equating visuality with knowing is an episteme foundational to practices of empire building and colonial cartography, turning the case.
This must be a voting issue – Ableist Speech strengthens oppression and destroys the purposes of public debate – the impacts trump the other warrants in their arguments Wheelchair Dancer, 4/28/8 (“On Making Argument: Disability and Language”, http://cripwheels.blogspot.com/2008/04/on-making-argument-disability-and.html Accessed: 2/10/11 GAL) If you are feeling in the first place.
1/7/14
Anthro K
Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Irvine Perez-Andrade | Judge: Leeson-Schatz Cultural strategies of racial identification via the interrogation of whiteness merely perpetuates the dialectic between white supremacy and survival strategies that reifies domination. An eco-centric ethic that problematizes the construction of race by finding intrinsic value in all organic and non-organic components of the world solves better. Seshadri-Crooks 2K (Kalpana, assistant professor of English at Boston College, “Desiring Whiteness: A Lacanian analysis of race,” AM)
My contention that subjective investment in it.
The aff understands history solely as a product of human relations, obfuscating the oppression of animal—we control root cause of oppression and conflict Best ‘7 (Steven, Associate Professor, Departments of Humanities and Philosophy, University of Texas, “Commonalities of Oppression: Specieism, Racism, and Oppression.” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007)
Since the nineteenth suffering and oppressed beings.
And, their focus on particular identity divisions within the notion of human masks the way we exploit the nonhuman every day and everywhere. Kahn ‘5 (Richard, PhD, Core Faculty in Education at Antioch University Los Angeles, “FROM HERBERT MARCUSE TO THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT: CONSIDERATIONS FOR REVOLUTIONARY ECOPEDAGOGY,” Green Theory and Praxis, Vol 1, No 1)
In many respects, materialized in the large.
This human-centric ethic will culminate in ecological collapse and extinction. Ahkin ‘10 (Melanie Ahkin, Monash University, 2010, “Human Centrism, Animist Materialism, and the Critique of Rationalism in Val Plumwood’s Critical Ecological Feminism,” Emergent Australian Philosophers, a peer reviewed journal of philosophy,http://www.eap.philosophy-australia.com/archives.html)
These five features of the human centric framework.15
The alternative is to vote negative to embrace an ethic of organism. Henning’9 (Brian, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Henning is author of the award winning book The Ethics of Creativity: Beauty, Morality and Nature in a Processive Cosmos. His current scholarship and teaching focus on the interconnections among ethics, metaphysics, and aesthetics, especially as they relate to the ethics of global climate change. E-mail: henning@gonzaga.edu, “Trusting in the 'Efficacy of Beauty': A Kalocentric Approach to Moral Philosophy,” MUSE, AM)
Final truths (whether in religiond for the whole of reality.
1/7/14
Area Studies
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge: D Quigley The affirmative’s evocation of the terrorist threat is not objective—it’s based on flawed information and is used to define an Orientalist/Western identity—this framing causes terrorism and makes an effective response impossible. Jackson ‘7 (Richard, Reader in International Politics, Dr Jackson lectures on critical terrorism studies, international conflict resolution and security studies. He was awarded his PhD from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and has previously taught at the University of Manchester and the University of Otago. He is the founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group (CSTWG). He is currently working on an ESRC-funded project in collaboration with Dr Matt McDonald (Warwick) on ‘The Coalition of the Willing and the Construction of Security’, “Constructing Enemies: ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in Political and Academic Discourse,” Government and Opposition, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 394–426, JS)
Employing the same …waste of resources.
The Orientalism the aff propagates causes unending violence. Batur ‘7 Pinar, PhD @ UT-Austin – Prof. of Scociology @ Vassar, “The Heart of Violence: Global Racism, War, and Genocide,” in Handbook of the The Soiology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, eds. Vera and Feagin, p. 446-7
At the turn …genocide, in Darfur.
Vote negative to interrogate the underlying assumptions of terrorism policy—Deconstructing terrorism studies is prior question to discussions of counter-terror policy Jackson 11 (Richard, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, “Culture, identity and hegemony: Continuity and (the lack of) change in US counterterrorism policy from Bush to Obama,” International Politics (2011) 48, 390–411, JS)
There is little …others are not (Yee, 1996).
10/26/13
Baudrillard K
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Zagorin Simulational narratives are just a form of nostalgia for past politics—they have to prove their reliance on simulation before they are able to generate any offense for the aff Lindsay 12 (Jason, Ph.d from Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Political Science at St. Cloud State University, “Baudrillard’s Simulated Politics and Debord’s Agents of Detournement,” Volume 9, Number 3 October 2012, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, JS)
For the political scientist, …is a greater challenge (see also Lindsey 2007).
10/26/13
Executive Restraint CP
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Whitmore Text: The Executive branch of the United States should publicly announce that US target killing policy should be restricted in compliance with principles of jus ad bellum and jus in bello The executive can restrain itself Sales 12 (Nathan, Professor of Law at Georgetown, 7/3, Georgetown, “Self-Restrain and National Security,” http://jnslp.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/08__Sales_Master_6-28-12-NS.pdf) Much of the caselaw …Barak’s memorable phrase.4
Counterplan solves- the conclusion of their Dworkin evidence. Dworkin 13 - Senior policy fellow @ European Council on Foreign Relations Anthony Dworkin (Web editor of the Crimes of War Project which a site dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war), “Actually, drones worry Europe more than spying,” CNN’s Global Public Square, July 17th, 2013, 10:31 AM ET, pg. http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/17/actually-drones-worry-europe-more-than-spying/
But if the …across the globe.
The separation of powers in the context of presidential war powers exists in the status quo Brecher 12 Aaron P., May 2013 J.D. Candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, Cyberattacks and the Covert Action Statute: Toward a Domestic Legal Framework for Offensive Cyberoperations, Michigan Law Review, Volume 111, Issue 423, pgs. 423-452, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1980976, December 2012, JKE
Applying this general …control is mistaken.
War powers are a constitutional right – executive restraint is key to SOP and executive flexibility Yoo 8/30 (John, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He served as an official in the Bush Justice Department from 2001-03, 2013, Fox News, “Like it or not, Constitution allows Obama to strike Syria without Congressional approval,” http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/08/30/constitution-allows-obama-to-strike-syria-without-congressional-approval/) The White House …it to the executive.¶
Early SOP key to prevent escalation of prez powers and massive inter-branch conflict Taylor-Robinson and Ura 12 Michelle M, Joseph, "Public opinion and conflict in the separation of powers: Understanding the Honduran coup of 2009," Journal of Theoretical Politics, Oct 9, jtp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/10/07/0951629812453216.full.pdf
Finally, our model …has emerged. Interbranch conflict causes extinction Jamison 93 Linda S. Jamison, Depu ty Director of Governmental Relations @ CSIS, Spring 1993, Executive-Legislative Relations after the Cold War, Washington Quarterly, v.16, n.2, p. 189
Indeed there are …beyond the executive branch (Mann 1990, 28-29).
10/27/13
Flexability DA
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Whitmore There’s executive war power authority in the status quo- the plan reverses that trend Posner 13 (Eric Posner, 9/3/13, Obama Is Only Making His War Powers Mightier, www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/view_from_chicago/2013/09/obama_going_to_congress_on_syria_he_s_actually_strengthening_the_war_powers.html)
President Obama’s surprise …stand in his way. Congressional control of targeted killing destroys war fighting and turns the case. Issacharoff ‘13 Samuel Issacharoff, Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law. and Richard H. Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law; CoDirector, NYU Program on Law and Security, “Drones and the Dilemma of Modern Warfare,” PUBLIC LAW and LEGAL THEORY RESEARCH PAPER SERIES WORKING PAPER NO. 13-34 Star Chamber=politicized secret court from 15th century England, symbol of abuse
Since World War II, …we make war. Terrorist groups and proliferation requires efficient executive action Li 9 (Zheyao, George University, Yale Law School, internship in the department of justice, “War Powers for the Fourth Generation: Constitutional Interpretation in the Age of Asymmetric Warfare,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 7, pp. 380-381) DMD
Another shortcoming of …of¶ American lives. Terrorism causes extinction Hellman 8 (Martin E, emeritus prof of engineering @ Stanford, “Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence” SPRING, THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI, http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf)
The threat of …not an option.
10/27/13
Gender K
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Zagorin OOO is gendered – it sanctions domestic violence by equating the abuser and abused, it reduces life to a disembodied set of construction materials, reduces relations to caricature, and prevents engagement in feminist struggles for equality.
Bogost 12 (Ian Bogost is Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and Professor of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, “Object-Oriented Feminism”, Society for Literature Science and the Arts Conference, November 5, http://bogo.st/j2)
I was talking ..limited by them. The flawed understanding of nature that results from a gendered ontology results in either a desire to manipulate nature as distinct from culture, or a determinist understanding of nature. Either recreate technological thought which turns case, and result in patriarchy and violence. Stone 2003 Allison, Institute for Environment, Philosophy, and Public Policy, “Irigaray and Holderlin on the Relation Between Nature and Culture,” Continental Philosophy Review 36(4), pp. 415-432 This paper offers… and esteem for, nature.
10/26/13
Medevalism K
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Zagorin Their attempt to overrationalize the object by revealing it through a single locus point of the technological innovation of the drone fails, we need medieval thought, not postmodern novelty.
People have been using,and sometimes¶ only purple, prose.
OOO can only relate to the object by imposing an anthropomorphic Logos principle upon the object – we should examine the history of thought rather than the idea of the object
Graham Harman…has not been addressed (Harman 2012, 196–97;¶ Morton 2012, 207, 218–19; Bryant 2011, 40, 86, 276).
10/26/13
Peterson K
Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Irvine Perez-Andrade | Judge: Leeson-Schatz Obsession with the ontological condition of social death turns the case and causes violence against anything that doesn’t fit within the aff’s dialectic Peterson 6 (Christopher, Lecturer at UCLA, “The Return of the Body: Judith Butler's Dialectical Corporealism,” Discourse 28.2and3, Spring and Fall 2006, MUSE, JS)
When scholars in race, more Christian than it knows.
Their embrace of the body as violence and a performative contradiction endows it with a very specific ontology - this appropriation of its presence ensures violence against the spectral and absent Peterson 6 (Christopher, Lecturer at UCLA, “The Return of the Body: Judith Butler's Dialectical Corporealism,” Discourse 28.2and3, Spring and Fall 2006, MUSE, JS)
While Butler’s theory of loss and mourning.
Disawoval of finitude is the foundational condition for all American violence—the impact is ever-escalating cycles of destruction. Peterson 7 (Christopher, Lecturer at UCLA, "Kindred Specters: Death, Mourning, and American Affinity," Google Books, JS)
The popularity of Six Feet Under and heterosexist disavowal of finitude.
We are all specters—only a recognition of finitude as conditioning of existence displaces the dialectic between presence and absence that creates violence against the black body Peterson 6 (Christopher, Lecturer at UCLA, “The Return of the Body: Judith Butler's Dialectical Corporealism,” Discourse 28.2and3, Spring and Fall 2006, MUSE, JS)
The political stratification both emerges and is sustained.
1/7/14
Security K
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Michigan AP | Judge: D Quigley Dreams of hegemonic collapse are projected by elites—their framing is what caused massive expansion of presidential war powers, turns the case and makes structural violence invisible Engelhardt 13 (Tom, co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The United States of Fear as well as a history of the Cold War, The End of Victory Culture, runs the Nation Institute, 2013, “The Enemy-Industrial Complex,” http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/04/15/the-enemy-industrial-complex/, JS)
All these years,…. We just don’t know it yet.
This paranoid fantasy of omnipotence sees threats to empire everywhere, which necessitates constant violence—you have an obligation to place the structural violence that hegemony invisibilizes at the core of your decision calculus McClintock ‘9 (Anne, chaired prof of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at UW–Madison. MPhil from Cambridge; PhD from Columbia, “Paranoid Empire: Specters from Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib,” Small Axe Mar2009, Issue 28, p50-74, MUSE, JS)
By now it …age of terrorism.”13
Their depiction of United States “benevolent hegemony” is massively ignorant of history and legitimizes the third American holocaust. Kagan promotes a framework of American universal American history which terminates the being of all others.
Sardar and Wyn Davies ‘4 Ziauddin, Visiting Professor, the School of Arts, The City University, London, Chair – Muslim Institute; Merryl, Welsh Muslim anthropologist; American Terminator: Myths, Movies, and Global Power p211 Consider, for example, …are not people at all! ? Our alternative is not a fiated advocacy to be implemented by policy elites, but a way to lay bare the lies and propaganda advanced by the 1ac, which is an ethically superior approach that provides ordinary citizens with the agency to pursue alternatives.
Guerlain 6 (Pierre, Professor at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, “Robert Kagan and Noam Chomsky: Two ways of being a political intellectual”, Comparative International Studies, Vol 4(4): 446-458 GAL) Although the word …Kagan's main focus.
10/26/13
T Targeted Killing
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kansas KS | Judge: Whitmore A. Interpretation: Targeted killings are strikes carried about against pre-meditated, individually designated targets---signature strikes are distinct Kenneth Anderson 11, Professor at Washington College of Law, American University, Hoover Institution visiting fellow, Non-Resident Visiting Fellow at Brookings, “Distinguishing High Value Targeted Killing and ‘Signature’ Attacks on Taliban Fighters,” August 29 2011, http://www.volokh.com/2011/08/29/distinguishing-high-value-targeted-killing-and-signature-attacks-on-taliban-fighters/ From the US …is at issue.
B. The Violation: The aff restricts signature strikes, which involve drones, but are not targeted killing. C. Reasons to Prefer
Limits: Signature strikes are a distinct mechanism in terms of both requirements and process- they double the size of the targeted killing area. 2. Ground: They make the topic bidirectional, allowing ban signature strikes allows the aff to say “HVT targeting good”, which should be negative ground. D. Topicality is a procedural voting issue to direct discussion towards the most fair and predictable interpretation of the topic.
10/27/13
T-War Powers
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Texas CM | Judge: Zagorin The phrase “introduction of armed forces into hostilities” is a term of art from the WPR- the clear congressional intent behind the phrase, based on both a textual analysis and legislative history of the bill is that “armed forces” should be defined as only human combat troop presence, not weapons systems.
Lorber 13 – Eric Lorber, J.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Ph.D Candidate, Duke University Department of Political Science. January 2013, "Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?" University of Pennsylvania Journal of Contsitutional Law, 15 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 961, lexis nexis
As discussed above…such operations will not trigger the War Powers Resolution.
