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+The 1AC is premised on a politics of hope wed to the notion that society is always redeemable, always progressing, but never quite here. This politics of affirming progress-to-come naturalizes anti-black violence and rests on black flesh. Only abandoning the aff's political hope subverts this myth of progress which coheres itself through black suffering – you make antiblack violence inevitable. |
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+Warren 15 Calvin L. Warren "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope" The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, Michigan State University |
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+We find similar … of political hope |
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+The alternative is political apostasy, the complete rejection of the “not-yet-social order” and the hope for the end of political hope. |
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+For West and … and spiritual practice. |
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+The political sphere creates compulsory forms of hope and delegitimates others. The alt is not giving up hope, but refusing to put hope in the political system – the role of the ballot is to resist anti blackness. |
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+To speak of … conceiving of hope |
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+And, Temporality DA – they centralize their focus on individual disaster politics which is predicated on white ontology because it understands time as singular and events as mainstream disasters. Antiblackness is mundane, everyday – this focus creates violence because it puts focus on white conceptions of time. Time can’t function on a normative plane because of the functions of white supremacist violence. |
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+Dillion 13 Stephen University of Minnesota; Fugitive Life: Race, Gender, and the Rise of the Neoliberal-Carceral State; University of Minnesota |
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+In this chapter, … colonize the future. |