Tournament: Lincoln Southwest Silver Talon | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lincoln JN | Judge: Fred Robertson
=Necropolitics Aff=
Qualified immunity harms the groups and communities most victimized by police wrongdoing and allows the state to enforce anti-black and anti-other violence to take place without repercussions for police.
Crockford 15
Kade Crockford, "Militarization of Police and Racial Justice Gone Wrong: The Eurie Stamps Tragedy", ACLU, Speak Freely, 09/29/2015
Duncan invokes the qualified immunity doctrine, which holds that police officers cannot be sued
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final act of shooting them was accidental and so absolves your prior conduct.
Biopower is a mechanism that functions through dividing the populace into who must live and who must die
Mbembe 03
Mbembe, Achille. "Necropolitics." Google Docs. Trans. Libby Meintjes. Duke University Press, 2003. Web. 19 Oct. 2016.
Having presented a reading of politics as the work of death, I turn now
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of the racist state, the murderous state, and the suicidal state.
Through biopolitics, a state the exercises the right to the life of a population also has the right to take it away. The job of the state then becomes to determine which group is inferior to the the rest of the population and to then create a systematic mechanism for which to get rid of the group as a 'threat' to the superiors. This makes state perpetuated racism inevitable.
Ritzer and Smart 01
Ritzer, George, and Barry Smart. "HANDBOOK OF SOCIAL THEORY." SAGE Publications, 2001. Web. 22 Oct. 2016.
There are, of course, plenty of examples of the exercise of sovereignty in
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of putting to death in a society of normalization' (1997b: 228).
The state not only controls how we live, it controls who lives, who dies, and how we die. The state enforces its power through death therefore biopolitics by itself becomes an insufficient term when describing the state's reign. The state enforces death through necropolitics and the United States has been exercising its longest use of bio/necropolitics ever since the beginning of the slave trade.
Dillon 13 (Stephen Dillon, Doctor of philosophy from the university of Minnesota, "Fugitive Life: Race, Gender, and the Rise of the Neoliberal-Carceral State", May 2013, Pages 68-71)
Smallwood, like Shakur and Williams, understands the market as a powerful extension of
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does more than repeat: it envelops, seduces, and multiplies.141a
Whiteness is the rule of law within every notion of civil society. Slavery and segregation is still very present
Farley 05 (Anthony Paul, "Perfecting Slavery" James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence @ Albany Law School)ghs-VA
Slavery is with us still. We are haunted by slavery. We are animated
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.9 Property and law follow the mark. And so it goes.
Steuter and Wills '08 ~Erin and Deborah, Writers at Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., At War With Metaphor: Media, Propaganda, and Racism in the War on Terror, pg. 41 to 45, 2008~
every genocide is followed by denial. The mass graves are dug up
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Of red savages who could not be tamed by captivity.”26
and the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who is best able to deconstruct dehumanization because if we don't, we are deeming a population not worthy to live because they are the inferior other and we make them less than people and stopping that should outweigh all impacts.
Berube, 1997 - (Berube, David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina. "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side." 1997.
Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire
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inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.
