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  • Cowpeople and Indigenous Peoples

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    • The idea of expanding Democracy to other nations is an extension of the American myth of Manifest Destiny – The Middle East becomes the new frontier and USAID is the new pioneer. Frontierism represents a practice meant to divide the world in the context of us/them, good/evil, the sacred and the profane that reduces populations to bare life in the name of averting the crisis that threatens liberalism
      Spanos 2010 (William V, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Binghampton University, The Exceptionalist Sate and the State of Exception: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor) 

      The continuation of an American National Identity rooted in the frontier produces spectral forces that risk annihilation of the planet
      Spanos 08 [William Spanos, American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam, pg. 95-97]

      Our alternative is a genealogical interrogation of the history that produced the frontier myth at the center of American national identity – a counter-memory opens spaces for resistance and destroys the hegemony of dominant modes of power.
      Clifford 01 [Michael Clifford, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University, Political Genealogy After Foucault: Savage Identities, pg. 134-137]



  • Not Spanos

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    • Civil society attempts maintain coloniality’s racist depictions of the middle east at an epistemological level – the plan administers fear and control through the imperial matrix to create a buffer between the West and the threatening other
      Mignolo 2006 [Walter Mignolo, Professor at Duke University, Islamophobia/Hispanophobia The (Re) Configuration of the Racial Imperial/Colonial Matrix, HUMAN ARCHITECTURE: JOURNAL OF THE SOCIOLOGY OF SELF-KNOWLEDGE, Fall 06]

      And, their focus on democracy fail to account for the coloniality – the condition of possibility for colonial violence is the epistemic starting point of the aff – their democracy participates in new forms of imperialism
      Conway and Singh 11 [Janet and Jakeet, Professor of Sociology at Brock University and Professor of Political Science at University of Toronto, “Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse,” Third World Quarterly, Vol 32, Iss 4, May]

      Their form of modernist politics privileges European culture at the center of world history subjecting the peripheral peoples to violence and genocides rendered inevitable and necessary in the name of civilization, rationality, science and philosophy. Their epistemology historically constructs guilt free motives to posit itself as the hero to the world thus justifying its redemptive sacrifice of guilty peoples
      Mignolo 2000 [Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 0691001405 115-117

      We advocate critical border thinking as our alternative. This redistribution of the geopolitics of knowledge starts from a different epistemic starting point to criticize the epistemological basis of the affirmative. This is critical to advancing space to subaltern epistemologies that challenge the ethnocidal foundations of modernity.
      Mignolo 2000 [Walter, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University Local Histories/Global Designs, 0691001405]68-69



  • Buhdooooooo

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    • Democracy assistance is colonial arrogance that assuming we have to impose the idea of democracy to tame the revolt. The plan text’s management of political will should be denounced.
      Badiou 2011 [Alain, .Tunisia, Egypt. .The Universal Reach of Popular Uprisings http://www.lacan.com/thesymptom/?page_id=1031 


      And, The ethics they affirm assume all that is weak in humanity and permanently relegates all the individuals of the 1ac to the status of victim.
      Alain Badiou, professor of philosophy, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, 2001. pg. xii-xiv]

      And, the ethical formation of the aff reflects a desire for catastrophe and a twisted form of life-affirmation. The nihilist core of ethics is best exemplified in the politics of the Nazi party. The quest for mastering life by interventions makes murder a mainstay of “ethical” action.
      Alain Badiou, Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris VIII (Vincennes at Saint-Denis), 2001. Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil, p. 36-39]

      Finally, Our alternative is to reject the western intervention of the plan’s call for assistance. The justifications of the plan are a ruse to aid western monopolies and control Arab peoples under the guise of aid and humanitarianism
      Badiou 2011 [Alain, 4-05-2011, Badiou’s response to Jean-Luc Nancy , http://knowledge-ecology.com/2011/04/05/alan-badioujean-luc-nancy-on-arabic-uprisings/



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  • The Mackeldon Manifesto

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    • Democracy assistance is a cover for American corporate control and manipulation of target countries
      Sussman 06 [Gerald teaches urban studies and communications at Portland State University and has published widely on the international political economy of information technology, mass media, and development.  The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe,  2006, ]

      This capitalist logic justifies hegemonic expansion promoting aggressive instability resulting in nuclear war, environmental destruction, and planetary collapse
      Foster, Oregon University Department of Sociology Professor, 05 (John B., Monthly Review, http://www.monthlyreview.org/0905jbf.htm, September,)

      Our alternative is to not do the affirmative—capitalist relations should be withdrawn from and rejected—we must stop participating in activities that constitute a limited rescue operation for capital
      Herod 2004—James, Faculty at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, http://www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/index.htm
       



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