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+====I affirm:==== |
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+==Framework== |
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+====I value morality since ought implies a moral obligation==== |
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+====We morally exclude people based on arbitrarily perceived differences—structural violence is rooted in this exclusion==== |
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+Winter, Deborah Du Nann, and Dana C. Leighton. "STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE." Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology for the 21st Century. (1999):. Print. ~~Don't worry I re-cut it~~ |
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+Finally, to recognize the operation of structural violence forces us to ask questions about |
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+thinking can be fostered by relationships, communication, and appreciation of diversity. |
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+====Thus the standard is reducing structural violence—Four additional warrants for the standard:==== |
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+====1~~ Eliminating Structural violence is a prerequisite to all other actions-all actions must challenge and change the way we view structural violence and oppression==== |
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+Taylor Janelle S. "Explaining Difference: "Culture," "Structural Violence," and Medical Anthropology." Office of Minority Affairs Diversity. University of Washington. Web. 28 Mar. 2016. |
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+"Structural violence," is a term that Farmer has developed in his own writings |
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+AND |
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+in situations where the automatic response might be to passively accept systematic inequalities. |
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+====2~~ Consequentialist moral views assume everyone as equals, but that isn't true in the real world—there are always pre-existing structural barriers that have disproportionate effects on minorities—we have to eliminate these barriers first to ensure an equal starting point for all, out groups don't fit under the util calculus==== |
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+====3~~ Ideal theories abstract from the real-world and ignore its concrete nature—this legitimizes oppression—instead, debate should be about real world consequences==== |
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+Curry 14 (Dr. Tommy J. Curry, "The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century", Victory Briefs, 2014) |
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+Despite the pronouncement of debate as an activity and intellectual exercise pointing to the real |
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+used to currently justify the living wages in under our contemporary moral parameters. |
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+====4~~ Challenging institutional racism comes first—it makes violence inevitable which turns their util first args ==== |
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+Albert Memmi 2k, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165 |
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+The struggle against racism will be long, difficult, without intermission, without remission |
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+AND |
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+. True, it is a wager, but the stakes are irresistible. |
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+==Contention 1 is Environmental Racism== |
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+====The use of nuclear power disproportionately harms marginalized groups ==== |
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+Chen, Michelle. "The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy." Colorlines. Race Forward, 23 Mar. 2011. Web. 10 Aug. 2016. http://www.colorlines.com/articles/radioactive-racism-behind-nuclear-energy. |
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+When the apocalyptic cloud erupted over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world woke up to |
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+the danger zone to the populations they see as less worthy of protection. |
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+====The status quo views Black bodies as sacrificial—we energize our lives while not noticing the terrible impacts of nuclear power has on them==== |
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+Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/ |
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+Environmental racism occurs when hazardous industries and facilities are placed in and near poor, |
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+air or water or anything else for the radiation we know is there. |
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+====Its try or die for the aff –any negative effects to the Black body are ignored because they are the out-group as explained in Winter and Leighton, they do not fall under the util calculus—this outweighs any benefit to nuclear power==== |
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+Dixon 12 Environmental racism: Is nuclear plant causing cancer for poor black residents of Shell Bluff, Ga.?http://thegrio.com/2012/01/25/nuclear-plants-and-cancer-epidemics-in-a-poor-black-georgia-town-environmental-racism-in-the-21st-ce/ |
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+"We've had meetings and protests and lots of promises and more meetings," Stephens |
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+will not benefit Georgia residents, because it will be sold to Florida. |
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+====Minorities bear the brunt of harms from pollution==== |
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+Gwynn, R. Charon, and George D. Thurston. "The burden of air pollution: impacts among racial minorities." Environmental health perspectives109.Suppl 4 (2001): 501. |
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+Among the extensive literature published in the field of environmental epidemiology, few studies have |
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+this study is to assess the role of SES in these potential differences. |
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+==Contention 2 is Indigenous Peoples== |
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+====Nuclear power usage dumps waste on native communities. ==== |
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+NIRS 01 Environmental Racism, Tribal Sovereignty, and Nuclear Waste http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/pfsejfactsheet.htm |
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+Nevadans and Utahans living downwind and downstream from nuclear weapons testing |
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+Chernobyl" in its tracks on Capitol Hill for the past five years. |
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+====Nuclear waste dumping kills Native American sovereignty and the government takes advantage of the situation they have put them in by offering bribes to dump waste ==== |
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+Lopez, Bayley. "Radioactive Reservation: The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land." Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. N.p., 02 Sept. 2004. Web. 29 Aug. 2016. https://www.wagingpeace.org/radioactive-reservation-the-uphill-battle-to-keep-nuclear-waste-off-native-american-land/. |
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+Nuclear waste is not just an issue for those who live near a nuclear reactor |
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+to reverse this trend, beginning with the government's policies on nuclear waste. |