Turn out the lights

a) Interpretation: Ugly people have extreme

disadvantages 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 other
disadvantaged 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', as
discrimination against the ugly 'is the new racism', September 5, 2011, http://www.dailymail.co.u
k/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 more
successful than those less blessed with looks. But now our appearance is
emerging in legal disputes as a new kind of discrimination. Lookism, it is claimed, is
the new racism, and should be banished from civilised societies. It is currently the subject
of several court actions in America, and some experts say similar cases should be
considered here too. Economist Daniel Hamermesh argues that ugliness is no different from
race or a disability, and suggests unattractive people deserve legal protection.
My research shows being good-looking helps you earn more money, find a
higher-earning spouse and even get better deals on mortgages, he said. Some people are
born ugly and theres not much they can do about it. Youre pretty much stuck with your looks. Logically theres no
less reason to protect the ugly than the disabled, African Americans, other racial
minorities or religious minorities, as we do. We could even have affirmative action
for the ugly.

B) Violation: Inevitably one side of the debate will
be 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 apply
to some sort of benefits, since so many employers refuse to hire them, treat them
as dirt, and skip over them for basic things like promotion. It sounds ridiculous (after all, how
do 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. He
argues that they are disabled.


C) This discrimination is a problem of rhetoric that
can 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, ableist
culture sustains and perpetuates itself via rhetoric; the ways of interpreting
disability and assumptions about bodies that produce ableism are learned. The
previous generation teaches it to the next and cultures spread it to each other
through modes of intercultural exchange. Adopting a rhetorical perspective to the
problem of ableism thus exposes the social systems that keep it alive. This informs my
second reason for viewing ableism as rhetoric, as revealing how it thrives suggests ways of curtailing its growth and promoting
its 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, and
critiques 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 the
successful techniques, reinvent those that fail, and realize new tactics. Third, I contend
that any means of challenging ableism must eventually encounter its rhetorical
power. As I explain below, ableism is that most insidious form of rhetoric that has become reified and so widely accepted as
common sense that it denies its own rhetoricityit "goes without saying." To fully address it we must name
its 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 and
new language to describe how it feeds. Without doing so, ableist ways of thinking
and interpreting will operate as the context for making sense of any acts
challenging discrimination, which undermines their impact, reduces their
symbolic potential, and can even transform them into superficial measures that
give the appearance of change yet elide a recalcitrant ableist system.

D) Alternative: the alternative is to adopt an
ethical framework shift in regard to ugliness by
starting a role of the ballot movement by turning
out the lights in this round so that the teams and
the judge only evaluate the round on the basis of
the content of the arguments made and the voices
they read it in.