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Environmental antiblack racism is poisoning people of color – the environmental policies are influenced by antiblack logic
Bullard 02 (Robert D Bullard Ph.D, Poverty, Pollution, and Environmental Racism: Strategies for Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities,Environmental Justice Center, Clark Atlanta University, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html)
The United States is the dominant economic and military force in the world today. The American economic engine has generated massive wealth…  racism combines with public policies and industry practices to provide benefits for the countries in the North while shifting costs to countries in the South. [4]

The demand for oil and energy production has put minority communities in constant danger.
Bullard 02 (Robert D Bullard Ph.D, Poverty, Pollution, and Environmental Racism: Strategies for Building Healthy and Sustainable Communities,Environmental Justice Center, Clark Atlanta University, http://www.ejrc.cau.edu/PovpolEj.html)
Environmental racism also operates in the international arena between nations and between transnational corporations. Increased globalization of the world's economy … only 20% of the region's population.

Antiblack Racism within civil society has relegated black bodies to the periphery. The Slave is the figure upon which all other subjects take their being.  The ontological death of the slave has given rise to the vestibule of the human. The consumption of the black body through slavery and its surrogate institutions has given rise to the debasement of all other grievances.
Jared Sexton 2010 (“‘The Curtain of the Sky’: An Introduction” in Critical Sociology 36; 11. Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African-American studied and Critical Theory at the UC-Irvine.)
To suffer the loss of political sovereignty… rendered as flesh to be accumulated and exchanged.

Antiblack logic makes the black body disposable and the site of waste justifying race as the organizing spatial principle for toxic waste sites
Mills 2001 (Charles W. Mills, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, 2001, “Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (2nd ed.,), p. 84-89)
Segregation by law is the clearest … waste products of industrialization should be directed toward them. Like seeks like—throwaways on a throwaway population, dumping on the white body’s dumpsite.

However in contrast to demands the coordinates of state and civil society are not elastic enough to welcome or even conceptualize subjective claims made by the slave.  The slave is not present on either the affirmative or negative side: we must abolish this topic altogether and start with the question of the slave and create an epistemic break as the current episteme which influences policymaking as whole is antiblack
Frank B. Wilderson III 2010 (Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp.   ) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and  a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award. )
Regarding the Black … The woman at the gates of Columbia University awaits an answer.

Advocacy: Affirm the end of the world

Because of the incoherence between the black positionality and the world itself at large our advocacy functions as a way to reorient ourselves towards the end of the world.
Wilderson, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, 2010 (Frank B. III “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, Pg 5-6) GG
It is customary for a book … is what I have tried to do here.

Power to Post the question is the greatest power of all
Frank B. Wilderson III 2010  Red, White, and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms. (pp. 3-4) Wilderson is an award-winning writer, poet, scholar, activist and emerging filmmaker. Dr. Wilderson spent five years in South Africa as an elected official in the African National Congress during the country’s transition from apartheid and was a member of the ANC’s armed wing Umkhonto We Sizwe. He has taught Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley. And is an Assoc. Prof. of African American Studies and Film UC Irvine and  a Winner of Hurston/Wright legacy Award and the American Book Award.
Soon it will be forty years since … then certainly by a revolutionary zeitgeist. 

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Class oriented focus ignores antiblack white supremacy and is rooted in mastery and domination
West 99, Cornell (Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University Race and Social Theory in The Cornel West Reader)
My basic disagreement with Marxist theory is twofold. First, I hold that many
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within the very problematic of the unfreedom and domination it attempts to overcome.
 

We control the framing of the world because civil society is based on the destruction of the black body and those in the black positionality; this also means our impacts come first
Wilderson, Professor UCI, 2002 (Frank B., "The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal", Soc Justice 30 no2 2003)
There is something organic to black positionality that makes it essential to the destruction of
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junior partners: Black citizenship, or Black civic obligation, are oxymorons.
 

This is going to come down to the ordering question which we will win.  Even if you were to successfully destroy capitalism you will never get to antiblackness because antiblackness created the condition of possibility for capitalism to exist which means we are an apriori ethical obligation
Dr. Frank B. Wilderson III 2002 The Prison Slave as Hegemony’s (Silent) Scandal, Presented at Imprisoned Intellectuals Conference Brown University, April 13^th 2002.  Rhetoric/Film Studies University of California, Berkeley
Capital was kick-started by the rape of the African continent. This phenomenon
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the record—which means they contain the seeds of anti-Blackness.
 

Their capitalist critique can’t explain the shipping costs questions – it would have been far cheaper to enslave white underclass from the riverbanks of Europe instead of going all the way to Africa.  This means that their profit driven analysis falls short in terms of explaining why the black body was targeted
Wilderson 2010 (Frank B. III "Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics" Red, White, %26 Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing,)
I raise Eltis’s counterposing of the symbolic value of slavery to the economic value of
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exports and income levels on both sides of the Atlantic" (1422).

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THE STATE OF EMERGENCY FOR THOSE IN THE ABJECT POSITIONALITY IS IMPACTED BY WILDERSON AS SEEN THROUGH CALLS FOR PREDICTABILITY.
Wilderson 2010 (award-winning author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid. He is one of two Americans to hold elected office in the African National Congress and is a former insurgent in the ANC’s armed wing, (Frank B. III "Chapter One: The Ruse of Analogy" Red, White, %26 Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms)

This state of affairs exacerbates—or, more precisely, mystifies and veils —
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. But this stability is a state of emergency for Indians and Blacks. 

Claims for predictability and fostering a static space is an attempt by the lite to control and exclude
Dantley 2002 (Education and Urban Society, vol. 34 (3))

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, is founded on a unitary notion of  reason celebrated by logical positivism.

Stability and reform is antiblack. Your notions of how debate "ought" to be are rooted in a diversionary play of interlocutions.  Here’s some debate specific evidence
Wilderson III, former member of the Umkhonto we Sizwe, 2008 ~[Frank B., Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid South End Press, pg. 407-411~]
Whites are guilty of being friends with each other, of standing up for their
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appetite for gossip and administrative minutia, our fear of a Black Nation. 

CLAIMS TO FAIRNESS, OBJECTIVITY AND LIMITS ARE WAYS TO MARGINALIZE THE OPPRESSED AND SILENCE VOICES.
Delgado, Law Prof at U. of Colorado, 1992 ~[Richard, "Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power," In Cornell Law Review, May~]
We have cleverly built power’s view of the appropriate standard of conduct into the very
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to consult that culture meekly and humbly in order to judge our own acts

Switch-Side debate takes on distance and detachment that conceals violence
Mediatore 07(Shari Stone- Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University. in 2007(Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural Classrooms http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html-http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html)
Ultimately, when we confuse distance and detachment with rigor, we promote, under
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to pain and suppressing compassionate impulses that would otherwise be troubled by violence.

Appeals to purely objectivity within roleplaying creates a numbing detachment and devalues the voices of marginalized groups
Mediatore 07(Shari Stone- Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University. in 2007(Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural Classrooms http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html-http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html)
Continued appeals to objectivity as a touchstone of legitimacy in many academic and professional circles
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ills while we undervalue the voices of those who experience social suffering more directly

Role playing as policymakers creates a regime of ’truth’ that supports existing power structures, excluding opposing viewpoints as apolitical. This turns their role playing good claims
Smith, 1997(Steve, University of Wales, Professor and Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University, University of Wales, Aberystwyth "Power and Truth, A Reply to William Wallace," Review of International Studies, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Oct., 1997), p. 513, NAP)
Those academics who do get involved in talking truth to power must accept that in
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pretend that any of this has anything to do with truth and academic objectivity

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Kwiatkowska 2011 – Teresa, "Beyond Uncertainties: Some Open Questions about Chaos and Ethics", Ethics %26 the Environment, Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2001, pp. 96-115, Published by Indiana University Press,  Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City, ~Ofir~

Out of the multiplicity of relations emerges a new set of metaphors to describe our
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play. We ought,¶ then, play it proudly but humbly."42

Our understanding of nature and what is natural is shaped by what is normal and predictable. Psychiatric and psychoanalytic understandings of race, class, colonialism, sex and gender are dominated by the medical impulse to analyze an individual’s identity, rendering it static. This shapes how all individuals understand bodies, identity and social practice. This equates the abnormal with the pathogenic, thus dictating physical and moral standards for society. The most predominant example of this is the transgendered body, which clinical thought depicts as physically and psychically pathogenic and abnormal in order to reinforce psychiatric intellectual hegemony over all other minorities.

Fred Joseph LeBlanc 2010, Queer Man, "UNQUEERING TRANSGENDER? A QUEER GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSNORMATIVITY IN TWO ONLINE COMMUNITIES," Victoria University of Wellington, ~Ofir~
~Paraphrased for gendered language/ableism. Contemplation = Gaze. Human = Man. Perceptibility = Visibility~

Becoming Transgender Since the early 1980s, when the influential anthropologist Gayle Rubin first suggested
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bodies may be vulnerable to that same thing, leading to an epidemic.

Psychoanalysis and psychiatry are not always bad, but failure to account for the subjectivity of the transgendered identity perpetuates the medical establishment’s normalizing of cisgendered bodies perpetuates the self-policing of peoples’ bodies, cancels their agency, and leads to their eradication.

Fred Joseph LeBlanc 2010, "UNQUEERING TRANSGENDER? A QUEER GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSNORMATIVITY IN TWO ONLINE COMMUNITIES," Victoria University of Wellington, ~Ofir~

Sex reassignment is considered by some health professionals to be the most effective treatment for
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a man’s body and not merely women who happen to have a penis.
Given the privileging of medical discourse in bodily matters, perhaps it is not surprising
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body size and obesity discourses (Evans, 2006; Colls, 2006).
David Valentine questions whether the distinction between gender and sexuality is simply a description of
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many gay men, gender is yet another closet to come out of."
In an early text, written with Wichins, Valentine (1997) discusses the
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misinterpreted, thus demonstrating that their sexuality is distinct from their gender. 28
Of course, the panopticon metaphor is not without its critics. Stephen Green (
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effeminate men resulting in all men acting to remove any traces of effeminacy.

The norms caused by this psychiatric and medical understanding of individuals causes corporeal violence in order to reinforce these norms. This is the same process the state uses to reinforce gender, race, ability, and class-based oppression, down to the broadest standards of how we keep time and measure productivity.

Spade, Dean, 2011,practicing lawyer, trans activist, and creator of the Sylvia Rivera law project, Normal Life: Administrative violence, Critical Trans politics, and the Limits of the Law

 Foucault suggested that as these norms become internalized, self-regulation would come
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time, measure productivity, and come to identify and understand human life.

The state can’t solve – it’s the biggest perpetrator of violence against trans people. Engaging the legal framework misleads us into thinking we’re safe. We shouldn’t advocate for legal equality until these operations are brought out of pseudo-secrecy.

Spade, Dean, 2011,practicing lawyer, trans activist, and creator of the Sylvia Rivera law project, Normal Life: Administrative violence, Critical Trans politics, and the Limits of the Law

Since the criminal punishment system itself is a significant source of racialized-gendered violence
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not only fail to eradicate transphobia but also strengthen system that perpetuate it.

In order to bring transphobic violence out of pseudo-secrecy, we need to use a discursive approach that focuses on disrupting cissupremacy, or the system in place in our society that shapes all modes of how we understand which gendered-bodies are "normal" and which are "natural". This is the root of all transphobic violence and cissexism.

Kale, NOVEMBER 11, 2011, "Cissupremacy 101: Here’s one queer transman’s perspective%21", http://ok4rj.org/2011/11/cissupremacy-101-here%E2%80%99s-one-queer-transman%E2%80%99s-perspective/, transgender man. Organizer for Norman Queer Alliance and Dolly Parton impersonator, ~Ofir~

I’ve identified as a transgender man since I was sixteen years old. As soon
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my queer readers, is a great place to start in explaining cissupremacy.
First, a definition of "cisgender": a cisgender person is one whose gender
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cissupremacy—it couldn’t function if the system of cissupremacy wasn’t in place.
These things don’t just affect transgender folks: when I say trans*, I’m talking
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-conforming, outside the binary, or any non-cisgender identity.
ALRIGHT: so cissexism might refer to an instance where someone makes assumptions about another
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privacy or conversational decency when I became something outside of normal to them.
Sup, cissupremacy?
These are tame, nonviolent examples—I’d say that cissupremacy is the root of transphobia, and violence against trans* people has been carried out with cissupremacist justifications countless times throughout history.
Obviously, cissupremacy isn’t just something that cisgender, straight-identified people practice.
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societies that they are often out of sight or are tricky to expose.
These ingrained understandings of "sex", gender, men, and women, are
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, or any other tactic they want in order to gain that control.
Straight folks and queer folks of all gender identities have to talk about cissupremacy,
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you actively imposed any of those assumptions on your friend/potential friend%21
This is part of allyship: being a good ally doesn’t mean we never make mistakes, but it does mean that we hold ourselves accountable for those mistakes. I’m not writing this to make you feel like a jerk (probably not, anyway). I’m writing this because I have to constantly work on holding myself accountable and resisting cissupremacist ideals, and so does everyone else.
Hope I didn’t lose you in there%21 In brief summary: if it ain’t your body, you don’t have a say in the identity attached to it—don’t forget it and don’t let others forget it either%21

Only oral histories allow the the transgendered individuals to define their own experience. Medical and psychiatric understandings attempt to stabilize transgender identity, distorting their history and allowing for it to be ignored.

Fred Joseph LeBlanc 2010, Queer Man, "UNQUEERING TRANSGENDER? A QUEER GEOGRAPHY OF TRANSNORMATIVITY IN TWO ONLINE COMMUNITIES," Victoria University of Wellington, ~Ofir~

Oral History
Studying the oral histories and positionalities of transgender subjects is cruscial in this project.
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ideology which masks the social production of ideas" (ibid.: 16).
Because memory inevitably has limits, the self we construct is necessarily partial; memory ties together events, persons, and feelings actually linked in only such accounts and not in life as it was lived; it equally necessarily relies on fictive devices in producing any and every account of the self it is concerned with." (ibid.: 62)
Auto/biography is to give account to complex and parallel historiographies. Feminist auto
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culture. Cultural documents shape norms, they do not merely reflect them.
Oral sources in its variety of forms – including aural recordings, (auto)
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meanings and it is this act of memory-making that is important.
Luisa Passerini argues that the notion of history as a catalogue of facts is a positivist practise. In this way, the historian seeks to discover facts that will reconstruct the past as it was, to make knowledge-claims on the history instead of a history. For Passerini,
the raw material of oral history consists not just in factual statements, but is pre-eminently an expression and representation of culture that includes memory, ideology and subconscious desires and this may not coincide with hegemonic accounts of ’what really happened’ (ibid.: 54).
Oral historian Joan Sangster (1998) is concerned with the ethical issues of oral
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my own (cis?)gender and academic privilege to gaze upon it.

Affirm this aff as an oral history to disrupt cissupremacy.

Just like the gender-fluid subject is always in a state of transition, technology puts us in a culture that is never static, and always transitioning, meaning any significant change has to be a meta-transition, or a transition from one form of transition to another. We can’t steer our cultural ship because we haven’t adopted the trans-epistemology, or one that constantly questions scientific objectivity and actively utilizes the imagination. We need an endorsement of culture that is itself always fluid, and acknowledges that society is never static.

Magoroh Maruyama PhD in in cultural epistemology 1973, "Future Education and A New Epistemology", ~Ofir~

the "facts" of human nature
For centuries humankind has travelled along a course of history without apparent need for questioning
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between individuals become possible? The social and cultural implications are beyond imagination.
We are entering an era of discoveries and inventions which not only change a part
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philosophies are inadequate for our new task. We must develop new ones.
In the past, the members of a culture did not need to generate cultural
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types of transitions. This can be called a "meta-transition."
the new education
In the past, education could aim at transmission of relatively stationary goals and of
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, science and philosophy. This is education as trans-epistemological process.
The type of education we need for trans-epistemological process is different in goal, methods, form and contents from current education. The goal may be proposed as development of the individual’s ability to grow out of the traditional logic and explore, discover, invent and reality-test new logics. The methods may include:

1. exposure to various existing epistemologies such as non-Aristotelian logics, the nonhierarchical epistemology of Navajos and Eskimos, the Chinese logic of complementarity, Einstein’s cosmology, quantum vs. wave theory of light, principle of mutual causality in cybernetics, measurement vs. topology;
   2. minimizing psychological dependency upon a single epistemology in order to offset psychological defensiveness toward other epistemolgies;
   3. development of the habit of questioning established theories and definitions;
   4. open-minded examination of what is exc1uded from the present science;
   5. use of the imagination;
   6. encouragement of disciplined experiments, data collection and field experience;
   7. exercise in inventing new cultural patterns and in elaborating on the details of implementation for such patterns.
   Some alarms and excursions
   Many students ask whether they would not get confused by learning to think in more
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   theory, one truth, etc. This is called "monopolarization." 5
   On the other hand, persons brought up in an extended family or in communal living seem to be relatively free from monopolarization. Monopolarized persons tend to be trapped in one way of thinking, believing that theirs is the "universal" way of thinking. In this respect, Americans are handicapped in preparing themselves for trans-epistemological processes and special methods may have to be developed to facilitate their de-monopolarization.
   Release from the trap of old modes of thought has its dangers, however,
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   meaningful and useful in preparing the child for the society of the future.
   Another teacher mentioned that children in her class said they see ghosts which grown-
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   and see how this affects their descriptions of the ghost in the class.
   Scientific rigor should not be confused with rigidity. While an emphasis on rigorous reality
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   examples of discoveries which necessitated revisions of the previously established laws of science.
    

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