Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Sukhjit Singh
1AC – Oppression FW
Adopting the perspective of the oppressed is the only way to account for dominant ideologies that skew our thought processes.
Mills 5: Charles W. Mills (John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy) ““Ideal Theory” as Ideology” Hypatia vol. 20, no. 3 (Summer 2005) RW
Oppression is created by social systems so only a focus on material conditions can solve.
Johnson no date: Allan Johnson (PhD in sociology, he joined the sociology department at Wesleyan University) http://www.cabrillo.edu/~lroberts/AlanJohnsonWhatCanWeDO001.pdf. RW
The standard is minimizing oppression, defined as promoting the material conditions necessary for inclusion.
Debate is a space for real world change, but we have to consider tangible policy action above all else—ideal theory abstracts away from material consequences and legitimizes oppression
Curry 14: Dr. Tommy J. Curry 14, “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century”, Victory Briefs, 2014
This outweighs – dlearning philosophy makes us immoral
Posner 98: The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, Richard A. Posner Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; University of Chicago Law School., Harvard Law Review, Vol. 111, No. 7 (May, 1998), pp. 1637-1717
Trust your basic intuitions about oppression—otherwise debate is made unsafe
Teehan 14 Ryan Teehan, NSD staffer and competitor from the Delbarton School – NSD Update comment on the student protests at the TOC in 2014.
1- Diversionary War
Strikes work to solve inequalities as well as balancing power.
Bahn 19. Kate Bahn is the director of labor market policy and interim chief economist at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her areas of research include gender, race, and ethnicity in the labor market, care work, and monopsonistic labor markets. Previously, she was an economist at the Center for American Progress. Bahn also formerly served as the executive vice president and secretary for the International Association for Feminist Economics. Bahn received her Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research and her B.A. from Hampshire College. “The once and future role of strikes in ensuring U.S. worker powers,” Washington Center for Equitable Growth; https://equitablegrowth.org/the-once-and-future-role-of-strikes-in-ensuring-u-s-worker-power/Trusha
Unequal balances of power put minorities at a sever disadvantage through the rise of ethnic nationalism.
Shiller 16 ROBERT J. SHILLER is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale. “What’s behind a rise in ethnic nationalism? Maybe in economy,” The New York Times; https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/upshot/whats-behind-a-rise-in-ethnic-nationalism-maybe-the-economy.html//Trusha
Ethnic nationalism contributes to time bombs both domestically and internationally.
Solt 11. Southern Illinois University. “Diversionary Nationalism Economic Inequality and the Formation of National Pride,” JSTOR; https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1017/s002238161100048x//Trusha
Politicians use diversionary tactics as a scapegoat to prove leadership elsewhere in effort to save their political lives
Jung 19. “Diversionary Theory of War,” Oxford Bibliographies; https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199743292/obo-9780199743292-0265.xml//Trusha
2- Class Domination
The right to strike is the right to resist oppression – it allows workers to check the unilateral nature of the bargaining process
Lim ’19: Woojin Lim. “The Right to Strike”. December 11th, 2019. The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/11/lim-right-to-strike/. FD
Status quo legal frameworks prop up oppressive working conditions and privilege employers to defend them – turns liberty based NCs
Gourevitch ’12: Alex Gourevitch. “A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike”. Jacobin. July 12th, 2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression. FD.
any damage incurred must be weighed against the transgression of a fundamental human right – eroding rights helps no one
Lim ’19: Woojin Lim. “The Right to Strike”. December 11th, 2019. The Harvard Crimson. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/11/lim-right-to-strike/. FD
Class domination results in myriad forms of oppression an causes poverty – this impact has uniqueness
Gourevitch ’12: Alex Gourevitch. “A Radical Defense of the Right to Strike”. Jacobin. July 12th, 2018. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/right-to-strike-freedom-civil-liberties-oppression. FD.
Poverty is the worst form of structural violence and kills as many people as a nuclear war
Abu Jamal ’98: Abu-Jamal, prominent social activist and author, ’98, A Quiet and Deadly Violence, Sept 19, http://www.flashpoints.net/mQuietDeadlyViolence.html. FD.