Tournament: Bingham RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Highland BR | Judge: Tippets and Delgadillo
1AC
The year is 2014 and the resolution suggests a discussion of US policy towards Cuba, Mexico, or Venezuela. After all, who wouldn’t want to engage with those wonderfully inclusive and accepting countries?
The Cuban revolution was economic in nature but it had much darker undertones. Gender and sexual minorities were placed into death camps that were a product of imperial capitalism, but history glosses this fact over
Green '1 (James N.: Assistant professor of Latin American history at California State University, Long Beach. "Queers in Revolutionary Cuba," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7.4, 2001 LVL)
Crucial to the … a factory worker.
Queer violence doesn’t just stop at the time of biological death of the queer. In order to truly eradicate queerness, all forms of queerness need to be pushed from history—our aff is an examination of the past that’s necessary to deconstruct that violence
Stanley ‘11 (Eric A. Stanley is a PhD candidate in the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is editor of the collection Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (2011). Summer 2011. Social Text 107 •Vol. 29, No. 2 “Near Life, Queer Death Overkill and Ontological Capture” http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_107/1.abstract)//gingE
¶ Overkill is a …what is nothing.
More than anything, the Cuban revolution was grounded in a focus of reproductive futurity. Propaganda for support was spread with the message “protect the innocent children” that ensured queers would always be excluded and exterminated because they cannot or will not reproduce in traditional means.
Lehnen 13 (Leila Lehnen, Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico, PATRICIDAL PASSIONS: ASSAULTING THE FATHER/MOTHERLAND IN
REINALDO ARENAS’ EL ASALTO AND JOÃO GILBERTO NOLL’S A CÉU ABERTO, http://revistas.fw.uri.br/index.php/literaturaemdebate/article/viewFile/548/1010, anuss)
Therefore, beyond rejecting …the Cuban Revolution.
The impact is genocide of the sinthomosexual—the sinthomosexual is a figure who forsakes all meaning and action for a better tomorrow and is directly oppositional to the assimilating power of the state. We are the sinthomosexuals
K Punk ‘5 (K punk February 26th, 2005 “We aren’t the world” http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/2005_02.html)//JL
The figure who … of standing him.' (101)
This is not violence unique to Cuba. Everywhere, queers are forced to navigate interactions with others, determining whether or not it is okay for them to embrace their queerness.
Stability and “inclusion” are really attempts by the state to hide the genocide that is being waged against queers. We do not want inclusion—rather we need a complete reconstruction.
Mary Nardini gang no date (criminal queers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin “toward the queerest insurrection”RC)
In the discourse … is our¶ history.
Queer bashing results in genocide, omnicide, and ressentiment
Sedgwick ‘8 (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2008 The Epistemology of the Closet)gingE
From at least … opened and opened?
There is a queer revolution going on in debate now. Emporia was a fantastic example, but I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that there is no more homophobia because Emporia won the NDT.
This assimilation is really a mask to continue more violence. We need a rejection of homophobia in every instance or we risk becoming complicit with queer violence. Vote affirmative to send a signal to the community that queer issues will no longer be footnoted.
Thus, Jaden and I affirm the resolution as a starting point for examining the ways in which queer violence affects our lives
We don’t want to assimilate – we embrace queerness as a radical act of defiance. If you’re not helping, you are part of the problem. So many people just brush off homophobia by telling us that they aren’t the problem A member of Queer Nation tells us that …
Queer Nation 90 (THE QUEER NATION MANIFESTO Text of a manifesto originally passed out by people marching with the ACT UP contingent in the New York Gay Pride Day parade, 1990. http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/queernation.html//RC)
I hate having …Boy, you're bitter."
The only question is what we can do with our own actions—there’s very little risk that we will get our hands on the levers of power but we CAN change our interactions with the queer
Kappeler 95 (Susanne now works as a freelance writer and teaches in England and Germany. She is also the author of The Pornography of Representation, The Will to Violence, ISBN 9780745613055, pgs 18-19)
The question which … for a start.'
The state attempts to assimilate everyone into normativity under the guise of patriotism
Puar and Rai ‘2 (Jasbbbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers University and author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Dr. Amit Rai is a senior lecturer in New Media and Communications at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Rule of Sympathy: Race, Sentiment, and Power. “Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots” Social Text, Fall (72), Vol. 20, no. 3, 2002, 117-148.)gingE
We start by …to the terrorist.
Forced assimilation is queer bashing
Sycamore ‘4 (Mattilda, aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, 2004 Mattilda, a.k.a. Matt Berns tein Sycamore is a prancer, a romancer,and a fugitive. “That’s revolting! : queer strategies for resisting assimilation”)gingE
No—it creates …and¶ smash something.¶
The rhetoric of the future holds us captive—we are always doing something to save the Symbolic Child
Edelman ‘4 (Lee Edelman, Professor of English at Tufts University in 2004, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive”)JL
For the politics … pledges us all.
The tyranny of the self is comparatively the worst kind of violence
Baudrillard, 1 (Jean, “Impossible exchange”, Verso, 60-61)eek
To be able … master but himself