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+====The Political of the 1AC kills critique by synthesizing an "action/inaction" dichotomy where only alternatives recognized by the Political are valid responses to the problem of anti-blackness. The state tricks us into thinking a lack of concrete "political action" is the worst evil – the impact is perpetual destruction of Black life as all strategies of resistance are hidden in an indefinite future==== |
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+**Warren '15**, Warren (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Columbian College of Arts and Sciences), Calvin L. "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 215–248. www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215. //SW |
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+Black nihilism is a "demythifying" practice, in the Nietzschean vein, that |
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+the only "hope" for blackness in an anti-black world. |
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+====The 1AC's use of the USFG perpetuates the Politics of Hope which continuously encourages the Black body to "hope" for progress despite getting no actual results – this creates a cycle fueled by a desire for "progress"==== |
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+**Warren 1**, Warren (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Columbian College of Arts and Sciences), Calvin L. "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 215–248. www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215. //SW |
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+In the essay "A Fidelity to Politics: Shame and the African American Vote |
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+and the continued widening of the gap between historical reality and fantastical ideal. |
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+====This indefinite "progress" towards some "solution" is always defined in terms of anti-blackness – winning that material conditions are "better" for Black bodies is insufficient as any metric used to quantify "better" is inherently anti-black==== |
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+**Warren 2**, Warren (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Columbian College of Arts and Sciences), Calvin L. "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 215–248. www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215. //SW |
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+Perverse juxtapositions structure our relation to the Political. This becomes even more apparent and |
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+advances political apostasy as the only "ethical" response to black suffering. |
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+====Vote neg as a method of engaging in political apostasy – transformation and rectification of anti-blackness is impossible unless we give up the Politics of Hope==== |
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+**Warren 3**, Warren (Assistant Professor of American Studies at Columbian College of Arts and Sciences), Calvin L. "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope." CR: The New Centennial Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2015, pp. 215–248. www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/crnewcentrevi.15.1.0215. //SW |
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+The black nihilist recognizes that relying on the Political and its grammar offers nothing more |
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+symbolic as inherently wicked and rejects it both as critique and spiritual practice. |
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+====The role of your ballot is to vote for the debater who provides the best methodology to combat oppression. This also means the alt solves case – the 1ACs "solutions" are always limited as they are within the bounds of legal traditions==== |
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+**Singer 84** Singer, Joseph – 1984. (Assoc Prof at BU Law). "The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory." 94 Yale L.J. 1. |
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+Legal scholars can perform an edifying role by broadening the perceived scope of legitimate institutional |
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+live together. We are going to have to answer that question ourselves. |
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+====Perm fails – historic reform has only increased the violence of the CJS==== |
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+**Shayler and Chandler 5** Casandra Shayler and Cynthia Chandler ~~co-directors of Justice Now, Oakland, CA~~, Prison Reform and Abolition: Points of Tension and Connection, 2005, http://www.publiceye.org/defendingjustice/organizing/shaylor_reform.html |
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+While the goals of the prison reform and prison abolition movements are both grounded in |
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+number of Black and Brown people who continue to populate the prison system. |