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+Exclusive forms of debate are driving out minority debaters by making debate technocratic and elitist. It desensitizes debaters to ignore violence and racism while excluding marginalized bodies. Thus, the role of the judge is to vote for the best resistance strategy for the oppressed. |
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+Fine 13 Todd; Founder of project Khalid and coaches the debate team at Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. and is Vice President of the High School D.C. Urban Debate League and writes for the huff post; “Qatar Conference on Scholastic Debate Examines Activity's Role in Empowerment”; Huffington Post; 3/10/13 @ 5:12 am; Accessed 2/17/15 @ 12:43 pm; http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-fine/qatar-conference-on-schol_b_2429645.html |
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+Meanwhile, the National Association of … hopelessly irredeemable America. |
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+And, spaces are oriented around the repetition of bodies that inhabit them – a chair become molded around a body that constantly sit in it – when I sink into the chair, if I fit into the mold I no longer notice the points of tension between my body and the chair. Bodies sink into chairs in the same way bodies sink into institutions – whiteness cohere spaces in certain shapes so that bodies that fit in them no longer notice friction while those that don’t experience stoppage and tension. |
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+Ahmed 07 Sara Ahmed "A Phenomenology of Whiteness" Goldsmiths College, University of London 2007 www.rainbow-season.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Feminist_Theory-2007-Ahmed-149-68.pdf |
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+But how does whiteness … some and not others. |
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+This creates friction – bodies are stopped and interrogated when they do not fit in the orientation of the space. Feminine speech in spaces of white supremacy becomes the incessant nag, producing a powerless text that either forces women to speak and be made powerless or voluntarily fall silent. |
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+Deem 96 Deem 96 Melissa, Prof of Comm. at Univ. of New Hampshire, “From Bobbitt to SCUM: Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States” Public Culture p.513-515 |
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+The fascination of the … making the complaint - as a mode of containment - dangerous. |
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+AND, this creates uneven energy distributions. Institutions deplete the energy of those it wants to exclude – the energy to get up, to keep fighting, to keep existing in spaces. |
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+Ahmed 13 Sara Ahmed "Feeling Depleted" November 17, 2013 Feminist Kill-Joy https://feministkilljoys.com/2013/11/17/feeling-depleted/ |
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+I am currently preparing a … that sense of being depleted with others. |
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+White supremacy plays with these energies – depleting energy while simultaneously giving it out. White women are depleted of this energy through sexual assault and sexism but are given the energy to demand their humanity on the basis of inhumanity of people of color. Freedom of speech and space intertwine through recognition politics. White women use freedom of speech to become recognized by institutions of power. This is how they respond to such depletions of energy – by seeking validation within an institutional structure. |
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+Thus, we advocate the methodology of the feminist killjoy. This is a refusal of the scripts of freedom and humanity that cohere the notion of constitutionally protected speech. |
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+We refuse to be happy in places of docility by refusing the institution of white womanity. Our affirmation of anti-rationality disrupts the notion of production because white women are expected to assimilate into capitalism productions. We contest hegemonic structures of deliberation that marginalize the oppressed and kill the joy of white comfortability. |
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+Ahmed 10 Sara Ahmed "Feminist Killjoys (And Other Willful Subjects)" The Scholar and Feminist Online The Barnard Center for Research on Women Summer 2010 |
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+Killjoys To be unseated …we can and we do. Be willful, we will and we are. |
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+And, our method disrupts the individualist politics behind freedom of speech. White supremacist notions of freedom of speech assume minorities are emancipated from oppression, rather our politic exists outside of notions of rationality which creates a process of healing from the traumas of academic space. |
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+Hornsby 95 Jennifer Hornsby "Disempowered Speech" University of Arkansas Press Philosophical Topics, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminist Perspectives on Language, Knowledge, and Reality (FALL 1995), |
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+Free speech is often conceived … use will be indispensible. |
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+Restriction of speech is based on the idea that emancipation comes from not hearing certain language. Racism manifests itself structurally and produces language which means that restricting language does not restrict the inherent violent of the institution. Restriction of hate speech creates complicity – Safe Spaces are a “White Fantasy” that only reinforce system oppressions on black and brown bodies- |
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+McKittrick 14 Katherine; Gender Studies professor at Queen’s University; “Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds, on Trigger Warnings”; Bully Bloggers; 12/17; https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/katherine-mckittrick-author-of-demonic-grounds-on-trigger-warnings/; accessed 7/12/16 |
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+PJH: On twitter, you (depressingly, … and anti-colonial thinking. |