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+The aff is a sentimental politics which promises that empathetic identification with survivors of police violence will reshape the world and actualize reoriented politics. The aff imagines that bringing the suffering prisoner’s body into the debate space becomes a prophylactic from our violence toward others and state violence toward those. You’re not in the movement, a ballot won’t help it, and they don’t want you involved. Their politicization of this violence relies on a racist survivor economy in which black, brown and red bodies are vampirically drained of life, made to dance for a infinitely deferred freedom, all while academics extract jouissance and advancement from their objectified identities. |
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+Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) |
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+What distinguishes these critical texts are the startling ways they struggle to encounter the Uncle |
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+in some way, fully expressed by the overpresnece of the stereotypical image. |
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+The aff’s presentation of suffering creates a marketplace of trauma, transforming wounds into a commodity for western consumption. Their politics of mourning exists by turning the other into a dead object through which we can construct a sentimental economy of pleasure and pacification. The aff is empathetic identification as deathmaking which ensures the smooth functioning of imperialism. Their fantasy of change through investment in the law shields criticism and guises violence. |
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+Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) |
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+Ravaged wages and ravaged bodies saturate the global marketplace in which the United States seeks |
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+proleptic shields, as ethically uncontestable legitimating devices for sustaining the hegemonic field. |
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+The alternative is to reject the liberal politics of suffering forwarded by the 1AC and question the 1AC’s motivation for trying to solve these instances of suffering. |
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+Abbas 10 (Asma, Professor and Division Head in Social Studies, Political Science, Philosophy at the Liebowitz Center for International Studies at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberalism and Human Suffering: Materialist Reflections on Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pg. Pg. 183 - 187) |
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+What would it mean, as Louis puts it to the Rabbi, to “ |
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+locating but also shamelessly arbitrate how the wounded can make their suffering matter. |