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1AC Grapevine Edina HPTournament: Grapevine HS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edmond Santa Fe | Judge: Contention One These economic sanctions are unethical -they deprive Cuban civilians of adequate medication and equipment The U.S. trade embargo on Cuba is endangering the health of millions by limiting…. attention to the impact they can have on the targeted country's population." Lifting these sanctions is necessary to become ethical towards Cuba –we must reject these notions of ‘American Superiority’ and the imperial management of the Cuban Other Some recent letters have appeared in The Chronicle that criticize the Editorial Board's support for ending the U.S. embargo against Cuba. These letters reflect… begin this process by respecting Cuba as an autonomous nation and lifting the unjust embargo. This rigid belief in American superiority pursued by sanctions inevitably leads to war –the attempt to create an ideal society necessitates the destruction of the Other The messianic turn in deconstruction,…. That is when the blood begins to flow. Moral generalities that attempt to attain universality are unethical –they exclude and reduce the identity of the Other Obviously there have been many different ways of engaging with moral or ethical questions…— it is derived centrally from another philosopher whose importance for his work cannot be exaggerated, Emmanuel Lévinas. To become genuinely ethical towards Cuba we must embrace unconditional hospitality while pursuing its implementation in the law Deconstruction is first and foremost an affirmation and a desire to open up one’s home (oikos/economy) to the call of the other… a hospitality that only calculated with the unconditional would be empty and useless. The role of the ballot is to disregard any preset knowledge and assume responsibility for decision-making –take a leap of faith to pursue absolute hospitality towards the Cuban Other –inevitable irresponsibility toward other Others Derrida‘s exploration of Abraham’s strange responsibility… making this leap away from calculative reasoning that Derrida argues that responsibility coexists. (PF 69). ?We must break away from preset decision-making frameworks and embrace risk ??????-never complete knowledge, it’s impossible to save every Other????????? In an interview entitled, Hospitality, Justice and Responsibility, Jacques Derrida states,… differance and undecidability in other philosophies is therefore the way in which responsibility seeks justice. Ethical decisions must embrace risk and immediacy –no certainty in justice, infinite conditions and knowledge According to Derrida, a genuine decision is never the simple application of a law or a rule… The instant of decision is madness says Kierkegaard. (FOL: 26) | 9/17/13 |
1AC MarxTournament: University of Michigan | Round: 1 | Opponent: New Trier XD | Judge: Michael McGrath This is the first time in over twenty years we’ve had the chance to examine our relationship with any country from Latin America –a chance to expose the harsh reality of our relationship with the hemisphere. For over twenty years Latin America has been grossly neglected by the high school debate community. We’ve seen our government exert more and more violent control over the Southern hemisphere without ever speaking out–our silence has been complicity with the new 21st century “Washington Consensus”m furthering neoliberal expansion and grossly unequal trade relations. And yet, when we finally have the opportunity to debate about Latin America, finally have the opportunity to problematize the abusive and one-sided relationship between the two regions, our entire starting point is grounded within that same capitalist logic. McLaren 05 Peter McLaren, professor of urban education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Capitalist and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005, pages 22-23 Today’s international political economy is the toast of the global ruling class, and the bourgeoisié see it as their biggest opportunity … seizes upon this space as its major terrain of struggle. The resolution mandates that we affirm an increase of economic engagement, that we advocate further US economic activity in Latin America every single affirmative round. ‘Economic engagement’ is inherently exploitative and capitalistic by nature–it spreads economic contact between nations, further cementing unequal relations of economic dependence within the global market. This epic development coincides with the ongoing expansion of US. imperial and military power, its purpose to help enforce the capitalist world order….. dystopic and frightening. U.S. economic engagement with the people of Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America imposes capitalism on the region, justifying violent interventions and increasing poverty. We are forced to defend a hypothetical plan of how the government can expand these capitalist economic behaviors every affirmative round, in fifty percent of our debates, at least 3 or 4 times a weekend. Rather than pretending to be capitalist exploiters we must engage in a struggle against transnational capital, the state, and economic exploitation McLaren 05 Peter McLaren, professor of urban education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Capitalist and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2005, page 66-67 You’d think that there would have been some mass outcry from the debate community against this blatantly capitalist and exploitative resolution, that surely within a community of liberal and progressive people, someone would have spoken out against demanding students defend such a horrible ethical position, round after round. And yet, this resolution has gone unchallenged. The resolution passed with 70 of states voting in favor. There was no major backlash once it was announced, no flurry of activity on the wikis or facebook groups, the major debate camps produced an overwhelming number of affs proposing plans to further the capitalist machine –for Mexico 32 different kinds of economic engagement affs alone were created. These kinds of affs continue to garner widespread success nationally, encouraging us to continue to use and exploit Latin America for our own selfish purposes. Robinson 08 William I. Robinson, professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Latin American and Global Capitalism: A Critical Globalization Perspective, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, pages 281-283 As counter-hegemonic forces renew their assaults on the neoliberal states in the new century heightened transnational conflict is likely. The new war order is manifest in Latin America in a general remilitarization throughout the region, … Law Enforcement Academy in El Salvador. Why should the debate community even try to pretend to take an anti-capitalist stance when it is one of the most privileged and elite high school activities in the country? We argue that while yes, we do recognize our privilege and our social location within the system, that is all the more reason we should be raising this question. Our privilege is not an excuse for perpetuating violent ideologies. Thus, we ask that you, the judge to vote affirmative to endorse our methodology of revolutionary pedagogy against capitalism to pursue a socialist alternative to current economic engagement in Latin America We should use the debate space as a site of social activism, to talk to others like us in similar positions of privilege and problematize the way we as a community have come to accept the resolution, the way in which we view Latin America. If unbridled capital accumulation gives rise to such a nightmarish world, it brings added misery with the spread of ecological devastation…. progressively the epic contributions of Marx, Gramsci, and Freire. The attempt itself to break down the structures of transnational capitalism is the ultimate ethical responsibility in round regardless of the outcome–you have a moral obligation to challenge capitalism. We know that we cannot speak from experience to describe those exploited in Latin America by capitalist US economic engagement, that we can never fully understand what it’s like to be a worker in a Mexican US-owned maquiladora sweatshop living on less than a couple dollars a day. As of April 1999, there were 4,235 maquiladoras operating in Mexico. … labor policy that ties women to the "bonds of patriarchy and capitalist exploitation." FN159 | 11/1/13 |
Cite Request InfoTournament: Cite Request Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: Email Bree at bpeilen17@gmail.com for neg cites | 11/3/13 |
New Derricuba 1AC Cards -ValleyTournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles MS | Judge: Calculation and conditions are unethical –just decisions must act without demands or delay | 10/4/13 |
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