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Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Winston Churchill WC | Judge: Demarcus Powell

I affirm resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.

Theories of oppression attempt to establish binaries between the oppressor and the oppressed, but this notion is misguided.

hooks 
bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; wdmvMS
Casting blame and calling for vengeance was an aspect of militant movements for black power
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seeing the larger picture. 

Status quo solutions promote "dominator thinking." There are very few people that are going to say something that is blatantly racist or sexist, etc. We must look towards interlocking systems of oppression in order to avoid the contradiction of embracing the same dominator thought we criticize.

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bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; wdmvMS
Even though origin stories, which find the invention of patriarchy to be the root of domination
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anti-capitalist or anti-sexist voices. 

Thus we must combat oppression through the lens of white supremacist capitalist patriarch, or WSCP. Every other method of answering the question of oppression that is not this intersectional leads to even more oppression, including the oppression we were trying to combat in the first place.

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bell hooks, "Writing Beyond Race: Living Theory and Practice."; Routledge. 2013; wdmvMS
I began to use the phrase in my work "white supremacist capitalist patriarchy" because I the
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United States to do, to have a more complex accounting of identity. 

Embracing the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy theory of oppression means we must embrace a love ethic.
Nienhuis
 "Revolutionary Independence," Critical Perspectives on  bell hooks, Nancy Nienhuis, 2009; wdmvMS
For hooks the goal of theoretical work must be to seek the highest good for all, and it is from we
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understand this truth." 

And the absence of love is the root cause of all forms of oppression

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 bell hooks; "Love as a Practice of Freedom"; wdmvMS
In this society, there is no powerful discourse on love emerging either from politically motivated
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to move against domination solely when we feel our self-interest directly threatened. 

Thus the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best promotes solidarity within intellectual spaces, specifically debate. 

I define love as having authentic care for one another and empathy for each other.  This is not saying that we must consider every person a friend, or even like everyone we met. However, love does mean that we must fundamentally care for and embrace each other even in the face of great opposition and hatred. Love is the answer to all forms of dominator thinking, this also means anti-ethical approaches fail.

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Gloria "Bell Hooks" Watkins, All About Love: New Visions, 2000- bell hooks; wdmvMS
Domination cannot exist in any social situation where a love ethic prevails. Jung’s insight, that
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who do it; and genuinely useful and pleasing to the people for whom it is done. 

Empirically the nuclear power economy structurally oppresses vulnerable communities.

Bullard
Bullard, Robert. "Dismantling environmental racism in the USA." Local Environment, vol. 4, No. 1, 1999.
"Since 1989, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had under review a proposal from Louisiana
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environmental impact statement."

The disposal phase targets minority communities.

Lazarus 
Lazarus, Richard. "Pursuing ’environmental justice’: the distributional effects of environmental protection." Northwestern University Law Review, 87:87, 1993.
"The second study, undertaken by the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice
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communities with uncontrolled toxic waste sites.’"

The benefits of mass energy generation primarily accrue to wealthy white elites, this means that the possible pleasures that certain communities get from nuclear power create more dominance and power over other communities; this prevents love and solidarity.

Mandell
Mandell, Bekah. "Racial reification and global warming: a truly inconvenient truth." Boston College Third World Law Journal, Volu. 28, issue 2, article 3, 2008.
"Suburbia, as we know it today, became the preferred middle-class lifestyle. With it came far
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more electricity, and cause more deforestation than any other lifestyle."

Mandell Continues...
"Moreover, large, detached suburban homes consume much more energy in the form of
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significant source of greenhouse gas emissions."

Promoting solidarity within intellectual spaces, such as debate, is specifically important to try and establish new norms in which we are not forced to defer to exclusionary methods and arguments.

VBI
Above all else, I like to think of debate as ~is~ a space with immense liberatory potential.
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taught that their voices carry power and the potential for positive change. 

====The embracing of love and communal care is the best method to liberate society’s fight against oppression.====
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"Love as the Practice of Freedom" bell hooks
The civil rights movement had the power to transform~ed~ society because the  individuals
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testimony of love as the practice of freedom.