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+====I affirm the 1AC without the use of poetry==== |
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+====Poetry is inaccessible to certain bodies—it may have some great personal value, but we should not force students to engage with it, especially as a survival strategy—it is those expectations that drive individuals with learning disabilities out of communities==== |
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+Philip **Schultz '11** ~~a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who struggles with dyslexia~~.. "Words Failed, Then Saved Me." Sunday Review, NYTimes. September 3rd 2011. |
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+So this summer's news that research is increasingly tying dyslexia not just to reading, |
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+about. But poetry should be a matter of passion, not survival. |
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+====These linguistic considerations matter==== |
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+Lydia **Brown '14** ~~I am autistic, disabled, and proud! I have a variety of experience in grassroots organizing, public policy advocacy, and outreach on disability rights issues. Policy Analyst for ASAN. "Violence in Language: Circling Back to Linguistic Ableism." 2/11/2014. AutisticHOYA. http://www.autistichoya.com/2014/02/violence-linguistic-ableism.html |
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+As important as it is to recognize and uncover the violence of linguistic ableism ( |
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+, and racism are embedded in language. This is the same process. |
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+====Ableism is a tactic of oppression that permeates all forms of discrimination - categorization based on normative biological standards justifies every form of discrimination and violence==== |
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+**Siebers 10** (Tobin, professor of English, University of Michigan, Disability Aesthetics, pgs 23-28) |
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+Disqualification as a symbolic process removes individuals from the ranks of quality human beings, |
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+represents at this moment in time the final frontier of justifiable human inferiority. |