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The struggle over the question of who counts as human is THE question of the debate—the system of colonialism instituted by European powers in the 15th and 16th centuries haunts the present in the form of coloniality.  We first unsettle the coloniality of knowledge and being that has demarcated the majority of the world as subhuman populations given over to death.
Wynter 2003 (Sylvia, Professor of Romance Languages at Stanford University, “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom
Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument,” CR: The New Centennial Review, 3.3 (2003) 257-337, MUSE)
THE ARGUMENT PROPOSES THAT THE STRUGGLE OF OUR NEW MILLENNIUM WILL be one between the
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the other, African enslavement, Latin American conquest, and Asian subjugation.

The affirmative’s economic engagement with Latin America is just one more manifestation of 500 years of coloniality—the promise of prosperity, democracy, and security is a toxic fantasy that obscures the trail of dead reaching back through time.
Mignolo 2005, (Walter, Duke University, “THE IDEA OF LATIN AMERICA”, 2005, 6/28/13|Ashwin)
The logic of coloniality can be understood as working through four wide domains of human
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the very idea of both “America” and “Latin” America.

Coloniality naturalizes a non-ethics of death and generalizes the condition of damnation—ongoing genocide, enslavement, rape, ecological destruction and unending war is produced by and reproduces colonial epistemologies.
Maldonado-Torres 2008 Nelson. “Against War : Views from the Underside of Modernity”¶ Durham, NC, USA: Duke University Press, 2008. p 215-217¶ http://site.ebrary.com/lib/utexas/Doc?id=10217191andppg=52

Dussel, Quijano, and Wynter lead us to the understanding that what happened in
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a world, ontology collapses into a Manicheanism, as Fanon suggested.72
The alternative is the DEATH OF THE AMERICAN MAN – this is an epistemological and semiotic struggle to deflate the enthno-class of Man
Maldonado Torres 2005 Nelson, professor at Rutgers, “Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics after September 11,” Radical Philosophy Review 8, n. 1 (2005): 35-67

Inspired by these Fanonian insights l have articulated elsewhere the idea of a weak utopian
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a nation-in-relation rather than as a continental being.71
And we must decolonize debate practice itself—Education based on Western epistemologies continue forms of colonial schooling designed to reproduce coloniality –
Shahjahan 2011 Riyad Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education (HALE) at Michigan State University. Ph.D. at the OISE/University of Toronto in Higher Education. “Decolonizing the evidence-based education and policy movement:¶ revealing the colonial vestiges in educational policy, research, and¶ neoliberal reform” Online publication date: 22 March 201, Journal of Education Policy, 26: 2,¶ 181 — 206 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02680939.2010.508176

Revisiting histories of colonial educational policy in schooling helps us contextualize¶ and demonstrate how
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decolonizing education¶ means in this era of neoliberal policies and transnational capital!

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The affirmative is an attempt to render the unintelligible other intelligible.  Assuming that the subaltern is on board with their movement preserves the western intellectual is the dominant subject.  Even if the subaltern could speak, the 1ac already stripped her of her vocal cords.  
Spivak 99 Gayatri spivak, can the subaltern speak

Some of the most radical criticism coming out of the¶ West today is the
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and education supplementing an earlier economic¶ text, can the subaltern speak?
The affirmative’s attempt to “understand the other” as a starting point for their politics is a colonial tactic of making the other transparent.  Only opacity solves
Britton 99 Celia, Professor of French teaches French Caribbean literature and thought, postcolonial theory; surrealism in the Caribbean; psychoanalysis and colonialism; literature and ideology; images of community; the Nouveau Roman, Edouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance, pgs. 18-25

More controversially, opacity is also a defense against understanding, at least in the
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, that¶ determines the relations between "discoverer" and "discovered."

Academia and debate have already been infiltrated by the military – the affirmative’s radical strategy of visibility and calls for dialogue will be co-opted for sovereign violence
Forte 2009 Maximilian C., Professor of Anthropology Montreal, May 22, “Useless Anthropology”: Strategies for Dealing with the Militarization of the Academy « ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY, http://zeroanthropology.net/2009/05/22/e2809cuseless-anthropologye2809d-strategies-for-dealing-with-the-militarization-of-the-academy/#print

One does not need to seek employment with the Pentagon, take part in counterinsurgency
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is simply to leave here today and continue to conduct business as usual.

The alternative isn’t a blueprint and we’re not going to tell you exactly what it means—we must disappear into the undercommons to find it.  Opacity makes us dissenting fugitives unfit for subjugation.  This is the only way to occupy spaces of sanctioned knowledge production like debate and the university without becoming grist for their mill.
Moten and Harney 2004 (Fred and Stefano, The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses, Social Text 22.2, Summer)

 “To the university I’ll steal, and there I’ll steal,” to borrow
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as it is the prophecy in the organization of the act of teaching.

Our ethics of opacity disrupts the dominant logic of coloniality
Walker 2011 Corey Walker, Brown University, “How Does It Feel to be a Problem?”: (Local) Knowledge, Human Interests, and The Ethics of¶ Opacity” TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World,¶ School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, UC Merced http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/0xj5402h

Inspired by the work of Charles Long, the ethics of opacity establishes the critical
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develop a theory of knowledge in critical relation with an ethics of opacity?

Tournament: Lexington | Round: 3 | Opponent: SVDP YM 3 3 | Judge: Corinne Sugino
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