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-====The claim that free speech leads to democratic debate and social progress is a neoliberal myth used to sustain the subjugation of the capitalist elite – the 1ACs faith in the free exchange of ideas displaces a focus on direct action and re-entrenches facets of oppression. ==== |
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-**Tillett-Saks 13 |
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-**Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths/ //LADI |
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-In the wake of the Brown University shout-down of Ray Kelly, champion |
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-. Herein lies neoliberal myth number one—that a liberal free-market |
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-====Their advocacy for rights rectifies the division between the human and the political - Rights talk ties the population to the sovereign by defining life only in terms of what can be defended by the state—this turns the citizen-subject into bare life by allowing arbitrary exclusion ==== |
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-**Hoover 13** Hoover, Joe. ~~Dr Hoover has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado and an MSc in Philosophy, now at University of London~~ "Towards a politics for human rights: Ambiguous humanity and democratizing rights." Philosophy and Social Criticism 2013 (IM) |
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-Agamben pushes this critique even further by focusing on the way in which rights depend |
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-and control, but rather central to it at the most fundamental level. |
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-====Bare life is the ultimate devaluation of life – life that can be killed, but not sacrificed. ==== |
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-**Reinert 2007** ('The Pertinence of Sacrifice - Some Notes on Larry the Luckiest Lamb' Hugo Reinert, PhD from Cambridge University of Cambridge, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol6no3_2007/reinert_larry.htm) IM |
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-worthy of this gesture of honour' (Hansen and Stepputat 2005: 17). |
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-===ROB/Framing=== |
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-====Your ballot probably won't change the world or even create any material change; Takes out any real world bullshit they read |
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-Instead, the ballot is a promotion and valuation of a discourse, seen as important or productive. The role of the ballot is to promote knowledge that builds the best power relations against sovereignty. ==== |
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-Gulli, 13 - professor of history, philosophy, and political science at Kingsborough College in New York, (Bruno, "For the critique of sovereignty and violence," http://academia.edu/2527260/For_the_Critique_of_Sovereignty_and_Violence, pg. 1) |
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-We live in an unprecedented time of crisis. The violence that characterized the twentieth |
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-rhetoric, ultimately rests on the threat of military violence and police brutality |