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-====There was never such a thing as a good cop. In the 1860s, they caught and killed Black slaves. In 1960 they beat civil rights protestors. Today, they still what they do best. Contrary to liberal logic, the police are here to maintain the power of the civil society and the ruling class against those people it deems a threat.==== |
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-**Mitrani 14** (Sam Mitran is an Associate Professor of History at the College of DuPage, he earned his PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago; "Stop Kidding Yourself The Police Were Created to Control Working Class and Poor People" The Labor and Working-Class History Association. LEFC December 29, 2014.) |
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-In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men |
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-, not help them. They’ve continued to play that role ever since. |
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-====Qualified immunity gives the police the license to kill.==== |
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-**Yudelovich 15** (Edward Yudelovich, he is an organizer of the Workers World Party People with Disabilities Caucus. "Supreme Court gives cops license to attack." International Action Center. June 25, 2015) |
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-On May 18, the U.S. Supreme Court awarded immunity from liability |
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-including on July 12 in New York and on July 22 in Boston. |
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-====Thus we demand: The United States has a moral obligation to limit qualified immunity for police officers by banning it in all instances of police violence. I reserve the right to clarify.==== |
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-====To imagine new realities with regards to police violence starts with limiting qualified immunity. We cannot immediately disengage with the state with the snap of our fingers – it takes a process that involves making demands until the movement is powerful enough to achieve the political reality.==== |
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-**Martin 15** (Marlene Martin works for the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and is an active member of the International Socialist Organization. "Cell Blocks for Killer Cops?" Jacobin. LEFC May 10, 2015.) |
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-I agree that the system is racist and violent to the core, but I |
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-on the rest of us, including going to jail for committing murder. |
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-====The 1AC is a call to radical imagination, where our analysis of the wounds of anti-Blackness allow us to imagine a world that is not anti-Black — this births Black agency.==== |
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-**Kokontis 11 (**Kate, PhD in Performance Studies from UC-Berkeley, "Performative Returns and the Rememory of History: genealogy and performativity in the American racial state," Dissertation available on Proquest LEFC 2011) |
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-On one hand, she addresses the literal politics that the theological narratives espouse. |
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-) not only permission for, but encouragement of what uncertainty can yield. |
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-====Educational systems have historically excluded Black thought to sustain White supremacy. Your role as a judge and educator is to reverse that – interjecting Black thought is a prerequisite to ethical debate. Schnyder 08:==== |
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-Damien Michael Schnyder (PhD, University of California’s President’s Postdoctoral Fellow) "First Strike," https://www.lib.utexas.edu/etd/d/2009/schnyderd25688/schnyderd25688.pdf |
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-Ms. Fox’s clear disregard for her students belies a racist logic that dehumanizes Blackness |
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-their role is vital to the maintenance of state domination of Black subjects. |
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-====The onset of modernity brought out the objection to Eurocentric notions of "impurity," culminating in the pathologization of Blackness. The rise of the West is the rise of Man that precludes the notion of Blackness.==== |
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-**Wynter 3** (Sylvia Wynter, "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 3, Number 3,257-337) |
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-and implemented by its celibate clergy (See Le Goff guide-quote). |
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-====Prefer the state as a heuristic:==== |
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-====1. The 1AC uses the state as a descriptor. When I say you ought to do some action, I do not sever myself from my identity and place myself in your shoes when I make that statement. It is a belief of what you ought to do. When we say the state ought to do something, we are not the state; we are saying the state should do this good thing.==== |
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-====2. We recognize the state can be bad, that’s the point of the aff. Revolutionary politics requires a strategy based in the present for real results, which means we start with the state. Sotiris 15:==== |
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-~~Panagiotis Sotiris (Department of Philosophy, Psychology and Pedagogy, and Communication and Media @ University of Athens, Faculty of Letters, Department of Philosophical and Social Studies @ University of Crete, Department of Psychology @ Panteion University, Department of Sociology @ University of the Aegean), "The Realism of Audacity: Rethinking Revolutionary Strategy Today." November 13, 2015. http://salvage.zone/online-exclusive/the-realism-of-audacity-rethinking-revolutionary-strategy-today~~ SF |
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-Unfortunately, historical experience shows both the catalytic and indispensable aspect of the insurrectionary sequence |
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-NO. No to pessimism, no to surrender, no to defeat. |