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+====Constitutional tort law masks structural inequalities, bolsters monopoly of legal expertise, and perpetuates a capitalist market that commodifies and profits off of injuries – only rich white people can afford legal representation while poor minorities rarely receive adequate recompense==== |
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+RICHARD L. ABEL 81 ~~Richard L Professor of Law (now emeritus) at UCLA, a specialist in African Law Studies and a renowned socio-legal scholar. He received his B.A. from Harvard University (1962), his LL.B. from Columbia University (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1974). He has been a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law since 1974~~, "A CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN TORT LAW," BRITISH JOURNAL OF LAW and SOCIETY VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, WINTER 1981, ghs//BZ |
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+Capitalist tort law exploits and alienates tort victims in ways that parallel the exploitation and |
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+A thus pays part of the cost of protecting the privileges of B. |
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+====Reparations fuel the logic of capitalism by trivializing and commodifying suffering – inadequate compensation undermines collective interest and hides systemic flaws==== |
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+RICHARD L. ABEL 81 ~~Richard L Professor of Law (now emeritus) at UCLA, a specialist in African Law Studies and a renowned socio-legal scholar. He received his B.A. from Harvard University (1962), his LL.B. from Columbia University (1965) and his Ph.D. from the University of London (1974). He has been a member of the faculty of the UCLA School of Law since 1974~~, "A CRITIQUE OF AMERICAN TORT LAW," BRITISH JOURNAL OF LAW and SOCIETY VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2, WINTER 1981, ghs//BZ |
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+The most insidious consequence of dependence upon market deterrence and state regulation has been to |
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+commodities - an analogy that reveals the patriarchal origins of contemporary tort law. |
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+====Capitalism is foundational to police brutality and violence against minorities – examining capitalist mode of thought is a prior question ==== |
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+Chris Hedges '15 ~~Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, columnist for Truthdig, author~~, "Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State," Alternet, July 6, 2015 GHS//RG |
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+Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is |
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+is absurd," Murakawa said. "I have zero faith in this." |
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+====The alternative is to completely withdraw from the logic of capital – individual criticism is key ==== |
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+Johnston 04 (Adrian ~~interdisciplinary research fellow in psychoanalysis at Emory University~~, "The Cynic's Fetish: Slavoj Žižek and the Dynamics of Belief" Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, December p259) GHS//GB |
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+Perhaps the absence of a detailed political roadmap in Zizek's recent writings isn't a major |
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+subjects, whether consciously or unconsciously, "internally" believe in it. |
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+====The role of the ballot is to challenge capitalism==== |
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+Zizek and Daly 04 (Glyn ~~Senior Lecturer in Politics at University College in Northampton~~, Slajov ~~Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural critic. He is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia~~ "Conversations with Zizek", p. 14-16) GHS//GB |
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+For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol |
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+) social antagonisms and to absorb them within a culture of differential affirmation. |