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+The ROB is to vote for the debater that has the best method to deconstruct antiblackness |
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+The Constitution sits at the front of the slavemaster’s library in a glass case like a shrine to an idol. It is upon this holy book that slavemasters dreamt up America, THEIR own democratic heaven, and that the 1AC dreams up their imaginary paradise of a free speech that only applies to white bodies. Speech is never free when it’s within the confines of white civil society. |
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+Farley 05. Anthony Paul (Associate Professor, Boston College Law School) “Perfecting Slavery”, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal. Vol, 36. p101-131. AKB |
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+XI. THE LONELIEST LONELINESS OR THE MODERN PROMETHEUS There is something at work in |
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+slaves are themselves the evidence of the eternal truth of their master’s mastery. |
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+The aff legitimates government and destroys radical action. Ingber 84 |
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+Stanley Ingber, THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS: A LEGITIMIZING MYTH, Duke Law Review, February 1984 EE |
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+Public acceptance of the myth of individual autonomy and the neutral marketplace of ideas imparts |
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+while the policy or ideology with which he initially took exception continues.404 |
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+Specifically, the 1AC fits neatly within the humanist project, using traditional ethics and liberalism to reduce suffering and promote freedom. This focus on the human furthers the definition of the human against the non-human, solidifying the black as slave and creating the logic of oppression. |
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+Warren 13. Calvin. “Onticide: Toward an Afro-pessimistic Queer Theory.” 2013. |
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+We could suggest that the term “black queer” dramatizes the fundamental tension in |
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+without this exclusion either. It is an unresolvable antagonism. 2 |
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+And, their politics of hope ignores this foundational truth – that the slave is always outside of the frame of redeemability – and instead creates an imaginary future to keep the slave at bay, always promising something greater. |
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+Warren 15 Calvin K., Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope,” CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015 |
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+The politics of hope, then, constitutes what Lauren Berlant would call “cruel |
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+the only “hope” for blackness in an anti-black world. |
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+America is produced through gratuitous anti-black violence – The coherence of civil society relies on a prior ontological exclusion of black bodies. Paradigms that fail to forefront the structural antagonism between civil society and black positionality only reproduce anti-black violence |
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+Wilderson 09 Wilderson, African American Studies and Drama and UC-Irvine, fought in Anti-Apartheid struggle in South Africa, 2009. Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, intro |
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+In other words, the election of a Black president aside, police brutality, |
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+split occur? The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer |
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+Thus the alternative is to embrace the demand of the slave - the end of the world. Wilderson 02 |
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+Frank Wilderson, The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal, resented at Imprisoned Intellectuals Conference Brown University, April 13th 2002. NS |
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+If we are to take Fanon at his word when he writes, Decolonization |
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+via reform or reparation) but must nonetheless be pursued to the death. |