Tournament: Westpoint | Round: 6 | Opponent: New York Dellamore-DeJohn | Judge: Demundo
Narrative
Indefinite detention of people with disabilities force PWD’s to give up the few liberties that was granted to them post-ADA. Hughes ‘05
Narrative
The moment a body is categorized as disabled (or labeled disabled as from birth) it is automatically separated from society whose ideas are tied with the disability. The disability, to society, is the person and consumes the entire body. A disabled person does not exist outside of the disability; the person has no identity. Davis ’95
(Lennard J., is an American speacialist in disability studies. Currently a Digtingushed professor in English at University of Illinois-Chicago as well as a Professor at of Disability and Human Development in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Professor of Medical Education in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Enforcing normalcy :disability, deafness, and the body, pg 23-40, London ; New York : Verso, 1995.)
This system of Ableism operates as the master trope illuminating the fundamental tactic of oppression, the naturalization of social inferiority as inherent in biological difference.
Siebers, 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, sl)
Our ROB is the judge should evaluate who has the best methodology for dismantling ableist modes of thought.
Reid-Brinkley ’12 (Interview with Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley conducted by Scott Odekirk on 2/13/2012 at the University of Texas debate tournament. Shanara is the first black woman director of debate in the country, a professor of communications at Pittsburgh. http://puttingthekindebate.com/2012/04/02/the-dr-shanara-reid-brinkley/)
