Tournament: Heritage Hall | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVN MM | Judge: Mattie Witman

The AC maps out and fits the people they've identified into pre-established understandings of what it means to be homeless. The suffering of those they describe is assimilated within a sign system that denies authentic social relationships - they have not done anything to help the supposed "homeless". The real object of their study has been abolished – the Other was lost in simulation the moment the AC began.

Kramer and Lee 99 (Eric Mark Kramer and Soobum Lee, Professor of Communication @ Burton Hall, Assistant Professor @ Department of Mechanical Engineering at UMBC, "Homelessness: The Other as Object", from READING THE HOMELESS: The Media's Image of Homeless Culture, edited by Eungjun Min, pg. 153 – 155)
Television provides an essential element for structuring contemporary exis- tence. According to Baudrillard
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detached "minors" as we may be while sitting on our sofas.

Tournament: Heritage Hall | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVN MM | Judge: Mattie Witman

Their demand for the ballot in response to descriptions of suffering is an attempt to commodify the other —- their advocacy may sound empathetic but it fails as a political strategy by comforting the Western observer and reinforcing the status quo.

Bystrom 12 - Kerry L. is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs, "Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms (review)." Human Rights Quarterly 34.4 (2012): 1214-1217. Project MUSE)A-Berg *gender modified
Over the past decade, a growing body of work has brought humanities perspectives to
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deserves this time, thought, and celebration. ~End Page 1217~

This use of the other as a means for a ballot simply reduces populations to utility —- the impact is genocide.

Chow 6 - Professor Comparative Lit at Brown, (Rey, "The Age of the World Target" p 40-42)a-berg
Often under the modest and apparently innocuous agendas
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into a full-scale preoccupation with identity and its construction."57

Tournament: Heritage Hall | Round: 1 | Opponent: BVN MM | Judge: Mattie Witman

Capitalism relies upon property ownership- their rights based approach to housing serves to cover class oppression- the united states has used this as a basis to build up wealth for landowners while making the poor's housing situation worse- prefer our historical analysis of Katrina

Herring and Reosnman 16 Chris Herring, doctoral candidate of Sociology at the University of California Berkeley, and Emily Rosenman, lecturer in Geography at University of British Columbia, 2016 "Engels in the Crescent City:  Revisiting the Housing Question in  post-Katrina New Orleans," ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, vol. 15, https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/acme/article/viewFile/1349/1206 bp
To interrogate the justifications for New Orleans' housing fix we revisit Engels' critique of the
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language of legal rights, moral hierarchies, and theories of urban development.

Capitalism is at a crossroads - it needs the AFF, but that locks in irresolvable environmental contradictions that accelerate ecological collapse - this debate is a question of social relations - an aff ballot organizes social relations around a market model that's driving the planet toward irreversible collapse

Massimo De Angelis 12, Professor of Political Economy and Development at the University of East London, 2012, "Crises, Movements and Commons," Borderlands E-Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol11no2_2012/deangelis_crises.pdf
The world is today traversed by several crises, which raises the pressing question of
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few points that I believe must be considered as part of the answer. 

The affs use of the state ensures they fail- the government is antithetical to class struggle- they state is the ultimate assurance of growth and private interests

Lazzarato 13-sociologist and philosopher, Researcher @ Matisse / CNRS (Paris I University), member of the International College of Philosophy in Paris ~Maurizio, "Governmentality in the current crisis," March, 2013, translation by Arianna Bove, lecture delivered in Berlin in 2013, http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_lazzarato7.htm, DKP~
Governmentality (of which liberals are nothing but one of the subjective modalities) first
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invested by capital, and governmentality works towards making them combine and cohere.  

Capitalism is universal- their belief that violence is contingent precludes effective analysis and papers over violence

McGowan 4 PhD from Ohio State English Department (Todd, 2004, "Introduction: Psychoanalysis after Marx", End of Dissatisfaction? Jacques Lacan and the Emerging Society of Enjoyment", p. 98-9)
However, as we can see in the passage from Laclau and Mouffe, there
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subjects increasingly view their experience as an isolated, essentially private experience.10 

Capitalism causes extinction- capitalism logic mandates endless ecological destruction- that's driving the planet past the tipping point- its try or die

Richard Smith, 11-14-2013, (Richard Smith is an economic historian. He wrote his UCLA history Ph.D. thesis on the transition to capitalism in China and held post-docs at the East-West Center in Honolulu and Rutgers University, "SLEEPWALKING TO EXTINCTION", http://www.adbusters.org/article/sleepwalking-to-extinction/ , MRV)
Why are we marching toward disaster, "sleepwalking to extinction" as the Guardian's
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live under capitalism, economic growth has to take priority over ecological concerns.

The alternative is to vote negative to endorse a historical materialist pedagogy- wage labor structures violence- only new forms of knowledge production can reshape our individual relation to capital and produce a collective class conscience which is a prior question to revolutionary action

Ebert '9 ~Teresa, Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Albany, THE TASK OF CULTURAL CRITIQUE, pp. 92-95~
Unlike these rewritings, which reaffirm in a somewhat new language the system of wage
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Instead, the pedagogy of critique is a worldly teaching of the worldly. 

You have an ethical obligation to reject capitalism- economic rational cannot account for its untold death and suffering

Zizek and Daly 4-(Slavoj, PhD in Philosophy @ the University of Ljubljana, Senior Research in Sociology @ the University of Ljubljana, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis @ the European Graduate School, has been a visiting professor @ University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton, University of London, and NYU, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, and Glyn, has been a Professor @ Essex University and Manchester University, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gord¬ian knot of postmodern protocol
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the abject Other to that of a 'glitch' in an otherwise sound matrix.