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Cuba 1ACTournament: UMich | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lane Tech WK | Judge: Michael McCabe Plan: The United States federal government should lift all sanctions currently placed on Cuba First is Embargo The US embargo against Cuba is an act of cultural erasure – American imperialism is founded on racist images of Cubans and economic paternalism The discourse of Empire symbolically “whitewashes” Cuban bodies by equating economic modernization with cleanliness – the Embargo represents Cuba’s official designation as unclean The impact isn’t just symbolic – the Embargo causes Afro-Cuban women to be seen as sacrifices so that northerners can enjoy a good and free society The hidden violence of these sanctions outweighs nuclear war – the embargo is an act of economic warfare “In contrast to war’s … healthcare rights of the population. You have an ethical imperative to end the embargo – the ongoing blockade represents a total war against the Cuban population – reject the distinction between economic and military warfare Vote aff- only by examining violence inherent to the system can we solve it Second is Neoliberalism The Cuban embargo represents the violence of neoliberal globalization – the US blockade is the most coercive trade policy in existence Moral goals of coercion fail US intervention has halted Cuban political progress- self-determination possible only possible without the embargo Latin American political transformations are ongoing and inevitable Neoliberalism creates a logic of disposability that justifies violence Reject this logic- condemnation of disposability is key to solve Framing Cost-benefit analysis cannot be evaluated- makes violation of rights inevitable A fair distribution of resources should be the primary concern of social institutions – injustice must never be tolerated, even in the face of political calculations Utilitarianism promotes inequality and a slavery mindset Policy decisions directed at maintaining human survival through whatever means encourage genocide and moral decay Representations are key to policy making Prediction is impossible – linear analysis causes policy failure IR predictions fail – there’s never enough information available Any action could potentially have devastating impacts, but we don’t evaluate them because of the low probability Poisons have always been seen … as an image of fear. Catering to minute risks based on higher magnitude creates policy paralysis The stakes are high, the … absolute security is absolute stultification. Round down on probability- ignore unrealistic impact scenarios The rational management of risk … recourse to ''effectively zero'' probabilities. Chance of nuclear war is small- studies and empirics prove Stimulus and cooperation disproves lashout theory When the global financial crisis … II international liberal trade order. | 11/22/13 |
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