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+====The 1AC said "disabled person, disabled individual, disabled citizens and the mentally ill" and other words of the sort numerous times, specifically in … ==== |
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+**Roberts 07 (Jeff, "The Rhetorical Structure of Disability: Bridging the Gap between What is 'Spoken' and What is 'Said' with Song – Over-Signifying with Personhood Against the Backdrop of Disease-Centric Discourse," Diss. 2007. TW )** |
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+**Until recently,** human "disability" has been conceptually understood as an abnormal**, ** |
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+**, yet these examples are far from the textual norm in modern legislation.** |
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+====The destructive rhetoric of disability allows for the dehumanization and further oppression against people with disabilities.==== |
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+**Roberts 07 (Jeff, "The Rhetorical Structure of Disability: Bridging the Gap between What is 'Spoken' and What is 'Said' with Song – Over-Signifying with Personhood Against the Backdrop of Disease-Centric Discourse," Diss. 2007. TW )** |
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+The rhetoric surrounding disability**, particularly as it is embodied in recent Congressional legislation, ** |
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+**AND** |
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+**to make pragmatic gains for people with disabilities in the spirit of equality?** |
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+====Thus the alt is to reject disease-centered rhetoric and replace it with "people first language." ==== |
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+**Roberts 07 (Jeff, "The Rhetorical Structure of Disability: Bridging the Gap between What is 'Spoken' and What is 'Said' with Song – Over-Signifying with Personhood Against the Backdrop of Disease-Centric Discourse," Diss. 2007. TW )** |
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+"People first language" is a way of speaking and writing, about individuals |
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+**ever actually mentally ill, or if society creates the illness within individuals. ** |