Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Winston Churchill BR | Judge: Arthur Byron
The role of the judge in this round is to be a critical educator.
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
Increasingly, as universities ... world around them.
The role of the ballot in this round is to reject structures of anti-blackness.
My opponent assumes that they can create change and solve for black people when they cannot.
Politics have always been a way to trick black people into investing into a system that is inherently against them.AG1
Despite constant crimes against blacks we are told to have faith in the political system.
Warren 15
Calvin L.; Black Nihilism and The Politics of Hope
We find similar ... and social maturation.
Prohibiting nuclear power is just another way to give blacks hope that conditions can change or politics can have an impact on the institutional racism present inside of the system. Especially when evidence shows that blacks are largely poisoned either way and the discussion devolves into a white man’s politics, it makes it seem like we can do something when in reality we don't have access to. Thus the advocacy: We must not engage in political systems by prohibiting nuclear weapons. Blacks must bring an end to hope in racist institutions.
This politics of hope keeps blacks stuck in a cycle of annihilation, reproducing the means of reproduction of AntiBlack violence.
Warren 15
Within this piece, ... of political fantasy.
One real world manifestation of this can involve the the costs of deconstructing nuclear power.
Drolette states:
Drollette, Dan. "The Rising Cost of Decommissioning a Nuclear Power Plant."Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 29 Apr. 2014. Web. 17 Sept. 2016. http://thebulletin.org/rising-cost-decommissioning-nuclear-power-plant7107.
How misguided that ... million to deactivate.
In an anti-black world what ends up happening is that this waste is simple discarded or leaks into poor black, brown and native communities.
This has already happened in the past such as in 1988 in Sierra Blank (dailykos)
We need to reject the Affirmative’s hope in Politics, it’s the only option in a nihilistic framework.
Warren 15
Calvin L.; Black Nihilism and The Politics of Hope
Following Kant and ...conceiving of hope.