Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hebron SY | Judge: Brian Lee
Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hebron SY | Judge: Brian Lee
Labeling oppression as dehumanization reencribes the species divide and destroys anti-racist and anti-sexist movement
Adams (feminist and animal rights advocate; Masters of Divinity from Yale ’76) 94
(Carol J.,
Neither man nor beast : feminism and the defense of animals, pg. 76-7)
In a hierarchical social order,
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hierarchy that positions animals as lower?
The 1AC’s call for change through the limiting of qualified immunity revolves around an anthropocentric framing of the world which seeks to tackle a symptom- instead of the underlying disease – this ensures the replication of prevailing anthropocentric power relations
Bell and Russell 2k Anne and Constance, Canadian journal of education, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf, AX
For this reason, the various movements against
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share with all expressive bodies (p. 80).
The alternative is to engage in a holistic environmental ethic that includes non-human and human entities- transcorporeality
Understanding the world and the self to be coextensive through transcorporeality can inspire a posthuman environmentalism that builds connections through global systems and solves human exceptionalism.
Oppermann 2012 Serpil, (Hacettepe University, Faculty of Letters, Department of English Language and Literature), “Review of Stacy Alaimo's Bodily Natures”, Environmental Ethics 34 (Spring 2012):103-106, pg. 103-106, AX
Therefore, I wouldn’t hesitate to state
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very substance of our selves and others” (p. 158).
Anthropocentric ordering is the foundation of the war machine and drives hierarchies and exclusion
Kochi 09
(Tarik, Sussex law school, Species war: Law, Violence and Animals, Law Culture and Humanities Oct 5.3)
Grotius and Hobbes are sometimes described
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within the early modern juridical ordering of war.
The figure of the subhuman is the root of their impacts and is inherent in the lines of legitimate violence and endless war
Deckha (Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Victoria) 10
(Maneesha, It’s time to abandon the idea of human rights”, The Scavenger, dec 10 http://www.thescavenger.net/animals/its-time-to-abandon-the-idea-of-human-rights-77234-536.html)
The resonance of the subhuman figure
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critical to producing violence against humans.
