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| Voices Round Robin | 4 | Lynbrook NS | Dada, Tinuo and Wheeler, Scott |
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Environmental RacismTournament: Voices Round Robin | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lynbrook NS | Judge: Dada, Tinuo and Wheeler, Scott As debaters, we must necessarily become aware of the problems of structural violence otherwise we are doomed to become magnifiers for the problem within our real life. We need to focus on the oppression of these forgotten groups because if we don’t focus on these issues then we will always end up hurting them. We need to start with the worst off in society in order to truly understand the problem. Giroux 10, Hurricane Katrina and the Politics of Disposability: Floating Bodies and Expendable Populations, Henry A. Giroux, Schooling and the Politics of Disaster¶ Kenneth J. Saltman¶ Routledge, Jun 10, 2010, http://books.google.com/books?id=UerhAQAAQBAJanddq=22living+wage22+and+biopoliticsandsource=gbs_navlinks_s Thus the role of the ballot is to vote for the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. The only way that we can escape the curse of the forgotten is by stopping our constant faith in historically racist institutions. We must stop ignoring history to ascribe morals on racist institutions and must rather face reality for what it is and position ourselves against it . Tommy Curry writes: Curry, Tommy J. doctor in Associate Professor of Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Africana Studies, Texas A and M University In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical. 2013. SPHSSS Part 2 is the harms Minority populations are oppressed and poisoned by nuclear power. Native populations are victim to uranium mines being forced on their land, reactors being built on land stolen from them and then eventually having nuclear waste dumped on them. These populations are so excluded that even though they try and fight back against this corporate poisoning there has been no mass media attention to their cause. Kamps states: This problem has gotten so bad that there are literally black and low-income community landfills on fire from chemical and nuclear infernos and we aren’t doing enough to stop it. Fields states: These are going to be the most important impacts within the round because only they account for the despairing state of current oppressed populations. For black and brown bodies they are already living in a state of constant death and persecution. By "structural violence" …throughout the world. As a result of these nuclear dumps, these oppressed populations suffer from health problems and poverty as a result of this poisoning. Bullard states: We cannot continue to tolerate the poisoning of these minority communities. We cannot build the country upon the death and subjugation of black and brown communities. Other supposed alternatives should be doubted as a result of the structural control of the nuclear complex. The nuclear industry controls our information and consistently lies to us. Thus, all pro-nuclear evidence must be doubted as it stems from false readings and doctored evidence. Gar Smith1 2012: The hegemonic nature of the nuclear industry falsifies pro-nuclear evidence in an attempt to continue their profits. Gar Smith2 2012: If we confront the abuse and lies of the nuclear complex then the switch to renewables can and will happen. These poisonous nuclear reactors can be replaced by renewable energy sources. Germany’s current movement is an example of this. There is enough international push that this will happen. Kunzig states: These renewable energy sources are affordable. Greenpeace states: Nuclear reactors are either obsolete and becoming dangerous as a result of natural decay and leakage or they are untested and not reliable: Diesendorf states: | 10/8/16 |
Nuclear HegemonyTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brentwood EL | Judge: Taylor, Carlos The current world order is dominated by a western nuclear hegemony that preys upon countries that fall on the lower side of the power dynamic. Hayes states: On the international scale nuclear weapons serve as both an extension of and creator of hegemony. When America first created nuclear weapons this served to enforce their rule among the Pacific but its sphere of nuclear influence has grown larger since. Hayes 2 states: Thus, the hegemony allows the Western world to pursue unilateral military action at will. This leads to catastrophic wars that manifest themselves as massacres of nations. This dominance eventually segued into a policy of using nuclear weapons not just for military advantage but also as a political tool. Hayes 3 states: In this new world order where we have an American-led western hegemony that uses nuclear powers as its greatest tool, extreme measures can be justified to the nuclear industrial complex if they prevent proliferation. So not only can the hegemony declare any war it wants but it can also justify it and therefore have support for those wars. Hayes 4 states: Additionally, the political issue of preventing proliferation becomes a source of power for the hegemony because of the support that comes with the issue. An example of this is Iran when the possibility that Iran had nukes became enough justification for an attack. This was both an extension of the hegemony’s punishment of deviant states as well as an assurance of their power. Greenwald states: This fear of proliferation is a powerful enough political tool it allows the hegemony to simply use these fear tactics any time they want to justify a war. Additionally, the rhetoric used by the nuclear hegemony becomes the root of a toxic social order. In order to prevent proliferation, minority countries are depicted as irrational, suicidal, or just evil. It creates a rhetorical environment in which only the rational white world is capable of handling nuclear power. Fekete states: This allows for the social marginalization of brown bodies as the outcast in the politics of fear. Fekete 2 states: This racism has translated to real harms for real people. Abdell-Fattah states: In order to prevent the power tactics of the nuclear hegemony, which is able to justify any war using nuclear power and to prevent the rhetorical marginalization that occurs with the political usage of nuclear de-proliferation policies, the nuclear hegemony must be deconstructed. As such the affirmative proposes that nuclear weapons should be prohibited for all hegemonic states. The existence of this nuclear zero would deter the hegemonic practices of the west. Tutu states: The role of the judge is to act as a critical educator combating oppression—while obviously signing the ballot won’t make oppression disappear, voting for strategies to combat oppression in this round makes us better activists in the future. In order to promote this activist culture, the role of the ballot in this round is to vote for the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. Giroux 13 (Henry, American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, “Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University,” 29 October 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university)//ghs-VA | 9/17/16 |
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