Turn Out the Lights Kritik

8/11/2019 Turn Out the Lights Kritik

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a) Interpretation: Ugly people have extremedisadvantages in jobs, spouses, and legal

deals, it is a new form of discrimination,racism, and disability that deserves the same

response and respect we grant to otherdisadvantaged groups and needs to be

protected in every instance.Salked 11

(Luke- Writer of countless disability articles on mail online), Didn't get the job? Blame 'lookism', asdiscrimination against the ugly 'is the new racism', September 5, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2033782/Didnt-job-Blame-lookism-discrimination-ugly-new-racism.html, Young$-2/16/14

Some might consider it an ugly truth that attractive people are often moresuccessful than those less blessed with looks. But now our appearance isemerging in legal disputes as a new kind of discrimination . Lookism , it is claimed , isthe new racism, and should be banished from civilised societies . It is currently the subjectof several court actions in America, and some experts say similar cases should beconsidered here too. Economist Daniel Hamermesh argues that ugliness is no different fromrace or a disability, and suggests unattractive people deserve legal protection.My research shows being good-looking helps you earn more money, find ahigher-earning spouse and even get better deals on mortgages, he said. Some people areborn ugly and theres not much they can do about it. Youre pretty much stuck with your looks. Logically theres noless reason to protect the ugly than the disabled, African Americans, other racialminorities or religious minorities, as we do. We could even have affirmative actionfor the ugly .


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B) Violation: Inevitably one side of the debate willbe prettier than the other. It allows for

discrimination, unfair treatment, and suffering.CMA 11(College Misery Archive), Ugliness and Disabilities, 7/9/11,http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/08/ugliness-and-disabilities.html, Young$- 2/16/14

In today's NYTimes, there is an article from a scholar who has studied ugliness in the US for the past two decades. His

conclusion? The most repellent, ugly people -- the ugliest 1% of the population -- ought to be able to applyto some sort of benefits, since so many employers refuse to hire them, treat themas dirt, and skip over them for basic things like promotion. It sounds ridiculous (after all, howdo we measure ugliness?) but he makes a substantial case about how people with mismatched eyes, lock-

jaws, and other unfortunate features end up suffering throughout their lives. Heargues that they are disabled.
http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/08/ugliness-and-disabilities.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/ugly-you-may-have-a-case.html?_r=1http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/ugly-you-may-have-a-case.html?_r=1http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/08/ugliness-and-disabilities.html


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C) This discrimination is a problem of rhetoric thatcan be slowed or stopped by change in our

thinking Cherney 11(James- Wayne State University), The Rhetoric of Ableism, Disability Studies Quarterly, November 3, 2011,http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1665/1606, Young$-2/16/14

In this essay I analyze ableism as a rhetorical problem for three reasons. First, ableistculture sustains and perpetuates itself via rhetoric; the ways of interpretingdisability and assumptions about bodies that produce ableism are learned. The

previous generation teaches it to the next and cultures spread it to each otherthrough modes of intercultural exchange . Adopting a rhetorical perspective to theproblem of ableism thus exposes the social systems that keep it alive . This informs mysecond reason for viewing ableism as rhetoric, as revealing how it thrives suggests ways of curtailing its growth and promotingits demise. Many of the strategies already adopted by disability rights activists to confront ableism explicitly or implicitly

address it as rhetoric . Public demonstrations, countercultural performances,autobiography, transformative histories of disability and disabling practices, andcritiques of ableist films and novels all apply rhetorical solutions to the problem.Identifying ableism as rhetoric and exploring its systems dynamic reveals how

these corrective practices work. We can use such information to refine thesuccessful techniques, reinvent those that fail, and realize new tactics. Third, I contendthat any means of challenging ableism must eventually encounter its rhetoricalpower. As I explain below, ableism is that most insidious form of rhetoric that has become reified and so widely accepted ascommon sense that it denies its own rhetoricity it "goes without saying ." To fully address it we must nameits presence, for cultural assumptions accepted uncritically adopt the mantle of"simple truth" and become extremely difficult to rebut. As the neologism"ableism" itself testifies, we need new words to reveal the places it resides andnew language to describe how it feeds. Without doing so, ableist ways of thinkingand interpreting will operate as the context for making sense of any actschallenging discrimination, which undermines their impact, reduces theirsymbolic potential, and can even transform them into superficial measures thatgive the appearance of change yet elide a recalcitrant ableist system.
http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1665/1606http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/1665/1606


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D) Alternative: the alternative is to adopt anethical framework shift in regard to ugliness by

starting a role of the ballot movement by turningout the lights in this round so that the teams andthe judge only evaluate the round on the basis of

the content of the arguments made and the voicesthey read it in.

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