Tournament: CEDA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Fresno State BH | Judge: Ben Hagwood
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Rap/poem/narrative by Corinne

1st- The State—They adopt this process of disassociation through surrendering oneself to the state – the affirmative distances themselves not only from their own social privileges but also disassociates themselves from complicity they have in participating in a process of separating themselves from the state structures they criticize while simultaneously embracing those same structures – this disassociation has led to some of the bloodiest atrocities in history – It conceals political apathy under the guise of activism and ensures the continuation of the problems they seek to solve – 

Fasching and deChant argue that
(Darrell and Dell, Prof. of Religious Studies @ University of South Florida, Prof. of Religious Studies @ USF, Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach, Pg.  42-43)
Interpreting our own historical situation is a risky business, for we are … and King, for a cross-cultural and interreligious post/modern ethic of human dignity, human rights, and human liberation

2nd—nuclear talk—Their nuclear extinction claims are rooted in a white perspectivism that focuses on crisis and ignores the countless deaths from daily oppression. Not only does this preclude true change and make wars inevitable, but it’s factually incorrect-There’s no extinction impact 

Martin 82
Professor of Science, technology, and society at the University of Wollongong in Australia
(“Critique of nuclear extinction”, 1982 Published in Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1982, pp. 287-300)
(g) White, western orientation. Most of the continuing … campaigns. If they do not do this, the task will be left to military and political elites.

3rd – DRONE TALK - Drone prioritization is distancing – it analytically re-centers privilege and trades off with focusing on structural violence – the 1AC performatively erases the violence done to intersectionally marginalized populations
This Week In Blackness 13 ("Drone Policy Is the Most Important Racism," http://thisweekinblackness.com/2013/07/25/drone-policy-is-the-most-important-racism/) 

There are several incidents of privilege-blindness …people is “unimportant racism,” and not as valuable as executing white men’s philosophical priorities.

4th  - Failure to foreground our own complicity - We must forefront our complicity in systems of dominations as the starting-point for building alliances – systems of oppression are inter-locking and reinforcing – our intersectional strategy is key to create more productive ways of interacting with one another outside heteropatriarchal white supremacy that produces an arbitrary system of permanent war and domination
Smith 9 (Andrea - intellectual, feminist, and anti-violence activist, Founder of INCITE - A National Activist Organization of radical feminists of color, "Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy: Rethinking Women of Color Organizing," http://www.iamsocialjustice.com/images/Color_of_Violence.pdf)
This framework has proven to be limited for women of color … right-wing conceptions of nation. We need a model based on community relationships and on mutual respect. 

Our alternative is a process of Intralocality is the process of being self-critical within an intersectional framework – the 1AC reinscibes distancing as a means of protecting one’s privilege – it’s a sequencing question – we must evaluate ourselves in relation to our social locations in the debate community as a starting-point for effective debate to occur
Moore 11 (Darnell L., writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire, Ebony magazine, and The Huffington Post, "On Location: The “I” in the Intersection," http://thefeministwire.com/2011/12/on-location-the-i-in-the-intersection/)
The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that … we would need to start at a different location than we might’ve expected: self.

It’s a pre-requisite to prevent the reproduction of oppression
Singer 89
(Joseph William, Associate Professor Boston University of Law, Duke Law Journal)
Spelman argues that the categories and forms of … inquiry, therefore is to understand concretely where privilege lodges in our thought. 

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The affirmative re-inscribes the primacy of liberal legalism as a method of restraint—that paradoxically collapses resistance to Executive excesses.
Margulies ’11 Joseph, Joseph Margulies is a Clinical Professor, Northwestern University School of Law. He was counsel of record for the petitioners in Rasul v. Bush and Munaf v. Geren. He now is counsel of record for Abu Zubaydah, for whose torture (termed harsh interrogation by some) Bush Administration officials John Yoo and Jay Bybee wrote authorizing legal opinions. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at workshops at the American Bar Foundation and the 2010 Law and Society Association Conference in Chicago., Hope Metcalf is a Lecturer, Yale Law School. Metcalf is co-counsel for the plaintiffs/petitioners in Padilla v. Rumsfeld, Padilla v. Yoo, Jeppesen v. Mohammed, and Maqaleh v. Obama. She has written numerous amicus briefs in support of petitioners in suits against the government arising out of counterterrorism policies, including in Munaf v. Geren and Boumediene v. Bush., “Terrorizing Academia,” http://www.swlaw.edu/pdfs/jle/jle603jmarguilies.pdf
In an observation more often repeated than defended, we are told that the … thought as our nation settles into what appears to be a permanent emergency.

That causes endless warfare
Bacevich, 5 -- Boston University international relations professor A. J., retired career officer in the United States Army, former director of Boston University's Center for International Relations (from 1998 to 2005), The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, 2005 accessed 9-4-13, mss
Today as never before in their history Americans are enthralled with military … to consider the continued relevance of Madison's warning to our own time and circumstances.