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+====I value justice.==== |
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+====Ethics has generally avoided issues of race and has failed to grapple with the way in which our biases affect our system of ethics.==== |
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+Charles Mills, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, "Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race," Cornell University Press, 1998 |
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+To what extent can the ideas of Immanuel Kant, or at least some kind |
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+Kantian theory can be adapted to provide a philosophical blueprint of its architecture. |
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+====The real world is not in conformity with raceless morality.==== |
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+Mills 2 |
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+So much for the familiar Kantian ideal world, the world toward which he hoped |
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+like is the real economy, and the official economy is a myth.) |
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+====This is explained by Herrenvolk ethics. Mills 3:==== |
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+We can represent |
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+made in reply. |
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+====Thus the standard is minimizing the power of Herrenvolk ethics.==== |
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+====The reasonable person standard is inherent to qualified immunity.==== |
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+Chemerinsky 14, Erwin, Dean of the School of Law at the University of California, Irvine; he is a prominent scholar in US constitutional law and federal civil procedure, How the Supreme Court Protects Bad Cops, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/how-the-supreme-court-protects-bad-cops.html?_r=0 |
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+Because it is so difficult to sue government entities, most victims' only recourse is |
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+how many more riots will it take before the Supreme Court changes course? |
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+====Plan text: The United States will limit qualified immunity by adopting the reasonable basis for belief standard.==== |
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+Jules Holroyd and Federico PicinaliIn, "Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person," The Criminal Law's Person, Oxford University Press, 2016 |
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+A reasonable person standard that requires that individuals have a reasonable basis for belief is |
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+even unreasonable beliefs, so long as they are non-culpably held. |
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+====The current reasonable person standard reinforces Herrenvolk ethics. Jules Holroyd and Federico PicinaliIn 2, "Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person," The Criminal Law's Person, Oxford University Press, 2016==== |
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+One way of construing the reasonable person is |
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+case of more familiar beliefs or preferences. |
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+====Jules Holroyd and Federico PicinaliIn 3 furthers:, "Implicit Bias, Self-Defence, and the Reasonable Person," The Criminal Law's Person, Oxford University Press, 2016 ==== |
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+Non-culpable unreasonable belief as a decision-rule |
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+problematic and implicates the law in various racist evaluative stances. |
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+====Impacts)==== |
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+Holding officers accountable |
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+the naturalization of ethics. |
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+Racism cannot be enshrined in law, because it works on the assumption that it's |
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+it reflects the categorization of people into a hierarchy of person and subperson. |
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+====Contention 2) Police==== |
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+====Qualified immunity was literally created to be a mechanism of Herrenvolk Ethics.==== |
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+Kirby 2k John D. Kirby, Qualified Immunity for Civil Rights Violations: Refining the Standard , 85 Cornell L. Rev. 461 (2000) Available at: http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clr/vol85/iss4/11 |
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+The qualified immunity doctrine grew out of the use of section 1983 and the Bivens |
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+any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws .... |
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+====The argument is not just theoretical—racist officers empirically get off with killing Black men because of qualified immunity.==== |
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+Shawn Carrie 15, "Why do police officers keep killing unarmed black men?" Daily Dot, http://www.dailydot.com/via/police-killings-ferguson-unarmed-black-men/, March 12, 2015 |
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+Scientific research even shows that biased judgments based on race can influence split-second |
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+officers get off—this makes it impossible to win cases against officers. |
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+====Qualified immunity justifies police brutality as demonstrated by Peterson v. Kopp.==== |
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+Tabitha Johnson, ~~Law Clerk at Hagar and Phillips, PLLC~~, "Qualified Immunity or Justified Brutality?: An Examination of the Qualified Immunity Doctrine in Peterson v. Knopp," Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice Vol. 4, 2015. |
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+Peterson alleged that Kopp violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights for wrongful arrest, |
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+and moral level, Peterson will provide precedent for further police brutality cases. |
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+====Police brutality is racially targeted and perpetuates Herrenvolk ethics==== |
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+Ragland 14 (David Ragland, Writing For Peacevoice, Is A Visiting Assistant Professor Of Education At Bucknell University, Board Member For The Peace and Justice Association And United Nations Representative For The International Peace Research Association., 8-14-2014, Michael Brown and America's Structural Violence Epidemic," Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/14/michael-brown-and-americas-structural-violence-epidemic |
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+I flew into St. Louis on Saturday, August 9, to celebrate the |
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+the enemy insurgents are Black. |
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+==Underview:== |
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+====Even with indemnification, liability has a deterrent effect.==== |
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+Joanna C. Schwartz, ~~Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law~~, "Police Indemnification," New York University Law Review, Vol. 89, 2014. |
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+Others will argue that, despite indemnification, police officers are still in danger of |
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+were confident that no judgment would be satisfied from their personal resources."279 |
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+====1. The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.==== |
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+**Coverstone 05** Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact" Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17^^th^^ 2005 |
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+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of |
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+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today. |
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+====2. The 1AC acknowledges the state is bad in many ways. However, the aff uses state as heuristic which doesn't affirm its legitimacy but allows enhanced governmental resistance.==== |
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+**Zanotti 13** — Laura Zanotti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University, 2013 ("Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 38, Issue 4, November, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via SAGE Publications Online, p. 299-300) |
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+Conclusion |
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+In this article, I have argued that, notwithstanding their critical stance |
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+position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.''84 |
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+====3. Critique is useless without a concrete policy option that solves for your harms.==== |
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+**Bryant 12** ~~Levi Bryant, prof of philosophy at Collins college, "Critique of the Academic Left," http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/~~ |
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+The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction |
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+things contain dirty secrets, ugly motives, and are doomed to fail. |