1NC
Whiteness manifests itself through the use of representations, and the manipulation of those representations to reify a world of “reality” that will best benefit those who reside on the powerful side of white supremacy…
Yancy 4 (“Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness, 1-24)
One way of challenging whiteness is to interrogate…through the very metanarrative world-making of whiteness itself.
Their silence and lack of analysis on white supremacy maintains the social ontology of whiteness, which reifies its multi-faceted network of power relations
Yancy 4 (“Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, 1-24)
The power of whiteness (white supremacy) manifests itself in many forms…this white supremacist spectacle. It is enough
(Something about bad faith – no tag written down)
Birt 04 (“The Bad Faith of Whiteness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, 55-64)
For Sartre, freedom is the most fundamental truth of human…embrace the ambiguities of our existence
2NC
Your attempt to establish a position from nowhere keeps us blind to dehumanization and epistemological violence – your inquiry cannot be separated from the social ontology of whiteness
Farr 04 (“Whiteness Visible: Enlightenment Racism and the Structure of Racialized Consciousness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, 143-158)
Although philosophers pride themselves on the alleged color blindness…it does reveal the blindness of the philosopher
Only critical rejection of the ontology of whiteness can break the systemic violence of white supremacy and open space for new epistemologies
Yancy 4 (“Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, 1-24)
The police officers guilty of murdering…was a site of negative ontologization
1NR
AT Perm:
Only a complete break from ontological whiteness solves – residual links means whiteness will be self-replicating in the world of the perm
Yancy 4 (“Introduction: Fragments of a Social Ontology of Whiteness,” in What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question, 1-24)
Despite the insightful analyses done by whites…they actually suffer and feel terrorized by whiteness