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+=Love AC= |
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+I affirm |
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+==Part 1- FW== |
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+====Ethical theorizing can only occur if we fix the oppression of voices.==== |
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+**Medina** : José Medina ~~Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt~~ "Toward a Foucaultian Epistemology of Resistance: Counter-Memory, Epistemic Friction, and Guerrilla Pluralism", Foucault Studies No. 12 (2011), 9-35 |
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+Foucault invites us to pay attention to the past and ongoing epistemic battles among competing |
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+, bringing to the fore the perspectives that culturally hegemonic practices have foreclosed. |
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+====AND, normative theories of oppression establish misguided binaries between the oppressor and the oppressed.==== |
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+bell **hooks,** "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE |
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+Casting blame and calling for vengeance was an aspect of militant movements for black power |
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+for our condition. A politics of accountability acknowledges victimization and reveals responsibilities. |
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+====AND, while few say blatantly offensive things, these phenomena still exist in our psyche. This dominator thinking extends to the way we approach oppression. Look towards interlocking systems to avoid contradictions that embrace the same domination criticized. ==== |
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+**hooks 2**: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE |
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+Even though origin stories, which find the invention of patriarchy to be the root |
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+-racist critiques while silencing anti-capitalist or anti-sexist voices. |
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+====AND, thus we must combat oppression through the lens of the white supremacist capitalist patriarch, or WSCP. Any other method that isn't as intersectional leads to the oppression of omitted sources of oppression. ==== |
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+**hooks 3**: bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; Accessed 2/29/16; PE |
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+ I began to use the phrase in my work "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy |
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+United States to do, to have a more complex accounting of identity. |
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+====AND, embracing the WSCP theory of oppression means embracing love. ==== |
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+**Nienhuis:** "Revolutionary Independence," Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, Nancy Nienhuis, 2009; Accessed 4/26/16; PE |
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+For hooks the goal of theoretical work must be to seek the highest good for |
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+profoundly political. Our deepest revolution will come when we understand this truth." |
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+====AND, domination in the absence of love is the root cause of oppression. ==== |
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+**hooks 4:** bell hooks; "Love as a Practice of Freedom"; Accessed 4/19/16; PE |
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+In this society, there is no powerful discourse on love emerging either from politically |
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+move against domination solely when we feel our self-interest directly threatened. |
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+====Thus the standard is consistency with an ethic of love. ==== |
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+====Prefer because embracing an ethic of love and community is the only way we can liberate society to create political movements. Empirics from the Civil Rights Movement prove. ==== |
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+**hooks 5**: "Love as the Practice of Freedom" bell hooks |
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+The civil rights movement had the power to transform~~ed~~ society because the |
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+. That action is the testimony of love as the practice of freedom. |
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+====The Role of the Ballot is to embrace an ethic of love. ==== |
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+I define love as agápe, or having authentic care and empathy for one another. We don't have to consider every person we meet or know as a friend, but we must fundamentally care for each other in the face of great strife. Loves is the solution to all forms of dominator thinking, meaning that anti-ethical approaches fail. |
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+**hooks 6**: Gloria "Bell Hooks" Watkins, All About Love: New |
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+Domination cannot exist |
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+whom it is done. |
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+==Part 2- Offense== |
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+====First, nuclear material leads to proliferation of nuclear weapons==== |
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+**GreenPeace 06** "Nuclear Power-Unsustainable, Uneconomic, Dirty and Dangerous." (n.d.): n. pag. GreenPeace. GreenPeace International, 4 May 2006. Web. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2006/6/nuclear-power-unsustainable.pdf. WSM |
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+The Asian Development Bank in 1995 cited "issues related to transfer of nuclear technology |
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+supplying nuclear technology and materials to third parties on the black market.7 |
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+====AND, prolif leads to war in Asia because of mistrust among countries.==== |
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+**Cimbala**, 20**13** (Stephen J. Cimbala, "Arms for Uncertainty: Nuclear Weapons in US and Russian Security Policy", Ch. 4, Ashgate Publishing, Ebrary, Accessed 6/26/16, JL @ RKS) |
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+Although the projection of past events into future scenarios is always perilous, something like |
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+blow, in order to maximize the possibility of military victory and avoid defeat |