Tournament: Colleyville Heritage High School | Round: 3 | Opponent: Greenhill LM | Judge: Derek Ziegler
The 1AC is plagued by ocular centric rhetoric-we have been marginalized and rendered into the sub-space under the privileged ably visual bodies
Cassek 2K9 (http://www.kevincassell.com/blog/index.php?id=61I’ve been teaching both in the U.S. and internationally since 1986. I’m currently a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. I’m also a Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Humanities department where I teach classes in writing, multimodal composition, and technical, scientific, and professional communication; December 29th, 2009SI)
I would like to give voice to a group of people who indeed ...are normalized as the standard.
With the monopolization and domination of the disabled bodies potential-the 1AC props up the constitutional divide between the us disabled and the privileged abled body-we are transformed into the shapes that forms the politics that society needs to correct, fix, and normalize
Loja No Date
(Ema Loja- Processes of disablim and ableism in Portugal and their relations with embodiment, recognition of identity and social inclusion; Phenomenology of bodies with disabilities; CriticalDisability Studies; Citizenship issues, civic and political participation; Discrimination and prejudice towards disabled people; 2012 – Ph.D in Psychology - FPCEUP¶ 2007 – Degree in Psychology- FPCEUP¶ ; http://www.ecpa-online.eu/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=AK7YUk6DgWw3Dandtabid=109andmid=618andlanguage=en-US; Ableism and/or disabled embodiment: a matter of diversity and social justiceSI)
By living on an ableist society...inequalities are revealed
Rationalized society if built upon the fundamental ideals the otherization of the un-abled body- we are the low functioning objects, the worthless entities, the people that fake, complain and whine,--we are reduced to less than human, animals, and subjugated to oppression
Breakstone 2K12
(Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone; http://disabilityrightnow.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/just-because-its-ableist-doesnt-mean-its-bad/; March 28, 2012; Just because it’s ableist, doesn’t mean it’s bad SI)
Ableism is dictating that there...that you need to change.
Locked up in a cellar-shut from the light and all hope, the disabled body is reduced to only their functional abilities, shoved into the space of abnormality and framed by society’s no normality-reinforced by abelist rhetoric we are sub- ducted into life negation
Arreter 2K7 (Stop Ableism Inc. / Arrêter L'Ableism Inc ; http://www.stopableism.org/what_part_two.asp; 2007; What is Ableism? Part Two SI)
Ableism is a neologism...as ‘normal’ as possible.
The individual is prescribed by identity and is inferior – Their disability rhetoric leads to dehumanization and subjects us to only our disabilities and kills value to life
Roberts 2K7 (Jeff M.A. The Rhetorical Structure of Disability: Bridging the Gap between What is ‘Spoken’ and What is ‘Said’ with Song—Over-Signifying with Personhood Against the Backdrop of Disease-Centric Discourse SI)
In the book, The Dehumanization...altered the individual biologically.
This disability rhetoric contains the power to define IDENTITY and being– this furthering of the divide reduces us to nothingness
Roberts 2K7 (Jeff M.A. The Rhetorical Structure of Disability: Bridging the Gap between What is ‘Spoken’ and What is ‘Said’ with Song—Over-Signifying with Personhood Against the Backdrop of Disease-Centric Discourse SI)
Language has immense power...future research is¶ necessary.
This leads us to question the rhetoric of ableism and disability which allows us to open space up space to discuss—we need to include discursive practices to investigate and rethink the space of ocularcentrism
Cachia 2K13
(Amanda Cachia; University of California, San Diego; http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3758/3281 ; Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive TurnSI)
In an essay on curating...towards the blind community.¶
Our alternative is to reject the affirmative’s to open up space for meta-discussion on disability discourse, one that constantly questions rhetoric to prevent slipping into a hegemonic unawareness and take terms for granted.
Lunsford 2K5 (Scott, Scott Lunsford has his M.A. in writing and began his PhD in Rhetoric and Writing studies in 2005, January 1st 2005, “¶ Seeking a Rhetoric of the Rhetoric of Dis/abilities”, Rhetoric and Composition PhD Papers, Department of English, http://digitalcommons.utep.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000andcontext=rhet_compandseiredir=1andreferer=http3A2F2Fwww.google.com2Furl3Fsa3Dt26rct3Dj26q3Ddisability2520and2520rehtoric26source3Dweb26cd3D1026ved3D0CHsQFjAJ26url3Dhttp253A252F252Fdigitalcommons.utep.edu252Fcgi252Fviewcontent.cgi253Farticle253D10002526context253Drhet_comp26ei3DOaTsT_2lJIuY8gSI-6y-BQ26usg3DAFQjCNGi67PqtbUndsIS7f6HPkueRkRJ8A26sig23DsO_68H9jX3Eo8B09DxEAPg#search=22disability20rehtoric22, accessed 6/28/12,)
As an advocate for including...their rhetorical value.