1NC
EU CP
The European Union should substantially increase assistive media tools to disability organizations in Yemen
EU solves Yemen – it avoids the stigma of American assistance
Burke 2010, Edward Researcher at FRIDE, “Assessing Democracy Assistance: Yemen,” Project Report, May
Unlike the US, the EU … a deepening economic crisis.
Politics DA
Boehner has been able to block China bill despite protests from his own party – his political capital is key to stop a discharge petition that would bring it up for a vote
Reuters 10/12/11. “Boehner Stands Firm Against China Currency Bill.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/12/us-china-usa-yuan-idUSTRE79B07M20111012?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Politics+News%29
House Speaker John Boehner … will build up," Reinsch added.
House Republicans will backlash against Boehner over foreign aid spending, undermines his political capital
Hulse 2/9/11, Carl. “House Republicans Battle Turmoil in Their Ranks.” NY Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/us/politics/10congress.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print#h[]]
Under pressure to make deeper …described as a productive lunch.
Passage of the China bill damages US-China relations, sparks a trade war, and kills both US and global economic recovery.
Reuters 10/10/11. “Currency Law Could Hurt US Jobs Growth.” http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/china-usa-currency-idUSL3E7LA1GC20111010
China warned the United … where it may never face a vote.
US-China trade war triggers a war
Landy 2007 Ben Ben Landy, Director of Research and Strategy at the Atlantic Media Company, publisher of the Atlantic Monthly, National Journal, and Government Executive magazines. Landy served in various research and project management positions at the Brookings Institution and Center for Strategic and International Studies, two leading public policy think tanks in Washington, D.C. Ben holds a bachelor of arts degree from Yale University. April 3, , http://chinaredux.com/2007/04/03/protectionism-and-war/#comments
The greatest threat for the 21st …y budgets and anti-satellite tests
US-China war causes extinction
Strait Times, 2000, 6/25/2000, l/n
THE high-intensity scenario postulates … puts sovereignty above everything else.
Cap K
Their politics can never result in the political change necessary to solve social exclusion and oppression – only a Marxist analysis of political economy gives the necessary tools for undermining the notion of disability and its material ramifications.
Oliver in 99, Michael J; A quarter-century of normalization and social role valorization: evolution and impact; “Capitalism, disability, and ideology: A materialist critique of the Normalization principle”; p. 164
The production of disability, therefore, …distribution of social goods. (Estes. Swan. & Gerard, 1982)
The use of Internet to instigate the potential of democratic revolution masks capitalism’s role in suppressing democracy through social media – the more monopolized and centralized the social media market becomes due to the presence of large conglomerates, the more easily authoritarian governments can shut down the Internet – Egypt proves.
Mejias 2011, Ulises. “The Twitter Revolution Must Die.” Creative Commons Attribution. Volume 2, Number 4. http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ijlm_a_00060
So why does the image of a …, as just happened in Egypt.
The naturalizing process of capitalism masks its role in ensuring subjugation on a global scale. Our primary ethico-political responsibility is to challenge the organizing principles which found this system
Zizek and Daly in 4
(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek pg. 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut …in an otherwise sound matrix.
The alternative is to reject the affirmative for their utilization of affective connections as a starting point to deal with able rhetoric. You should instead affirm historical materialism as the best method to challenge these modes of oppression. Our method is the only way to stop capitalism-their knowledge only values individual epistemologies and identity. This cuts analysis off from the totality of capitalism ensuring the case fails.
Lukacs in 67 (George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness)
It is not the primacy of … more salutary and decisive. <27-28>
Case
1. Affect is not enough for decision-making – it leads to misguided decisions especially in the context of large magnitude and future-oriented impacts
Paul Slovic et al 2004 “Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 2, google it
There are two important ways that … in the future receive little weight. (p. 240)
Authoritarian governments have reacted against the expanding use of social media by opposition forces by harnessing it for themselves – Iran proves.
Morozov 2011, Evgeny (visiting scholar at Stanford University and a Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy and Boston Review). “The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom.” PublicAffairs: New York
Egypt is not far behind. … fell in love with Ahmadinejad.
Enlightenment Turn:
A. The postmodern rejection of epistemic truth reached through reason in favor of emotion justifies the simultaneous advances of right wing ideology as – within their framework – neither positions have an absolute claim to certainty and are thus equally valuable.
Sherry in 96
Suzanna, Prof of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law @ University of Minnesota, Georgetown Law Journal, “The Sleep of Reason”, February, 84 Geo. L.J. 453
This joinder of left … suited for public governance.
B. Takeover of the aff under the basis of epistemic uncertainty only means the retaliation and rise of the right in response – there’s no way to resolve the conflict between them both have equal claims of validity.
Sherry in 96
Suzanna, Prof of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law @ University of Minnesota, Georgetown Law Journal, “The Sleep of Reason”, February, 84 Geo. L.J. 453
Whether or not they use the …than our ancestors and neighbors." 67
2NC Cap K
Inclusive constructivist theories of disability whitewash the ways in which calls for social inclusion hijacked as a market mechanism to drive down wages and quash the revolutionary potential of excluded groups and marginalized workers.
Harn in 87
Harlan; “ADVERTISING THE ACCEPTABLY EMPLOYABLE IMAGE DISABILITY AND CAPITALISM”; Policy Studies Journal
Volume 15, Issue 3, pages 551–570, March 1987; Wiley Online Lib
[In recent years, there has been … exceptional demand for other workers.]
Philosophy’s obsession with difference and the indeterminacy and play of symbols prevents a solidified and coherent understanding of capitalism. It trades off with meaningful analysis of the way capitalism has ordered society, stifling resistance.
Zavarzadeh in 95 (Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, post-ality: Marxism and postmodernism, post-ality the (dis)simulations of cybercapitalism)
Post-ality is the ensemble of … joke are sutured into the post-al paralogy. <3-4>
However the alternative solves the entirety of the aff - capitalism is what controls the question of media representation – it’s the historical origin of negative media representations and social exclusions and operates as a market motivation for consuming more products.
Harn in 87
Harlan; “ADVERTISING THE ACCEPTABLY EMPLOYABLE IMAGE DISABILITY AND CAPITALISM”; Policy Studies Journal
Volume 15, Issue 3, pages 551–570, March 1987; Wiley Online Lib
These trends were intensified …the operation of a capitalist economy.
No solvency deficit to the alternative - even if normalization regarding disability predates capitalism – capitalism is the root cause and foundational element in the systems of normalization, exclusion, and violence that exist today.
Harn in 87
Harlan; “ADVERTISING THE ACCEPTABLY EMPLOYABLE IMAGE DISABILITY AND CAPITALISM”; Policy Studies Journal
Volume 15, Issue 3, pages 551–570, March 1987; Wiley Online Lib
The influences that have … a capitalistic economic system.
The aff will only perpetuate the societal exclusion of disabled persons because it misdiagnoses the problem and precludes the critical analysis of capitalism necessary to create meaningful structural change
MARTA RUSSELL in 2k2 Disability & Society, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2002, pp. 117–135, What Disability Civil Rights Cannot Do: employment and political economy, ebscohost
To explain such outcomes, I have …This paper will offer such a criticism.
1NR
We can’t choose how we respond to things
Paul Slovic et al 2004 “Risk as Analysis and Risk as Feelings: Some Thoughts about Affect, Reason, Risk, and Rationality,” Risk Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 2, google it
Although the visceral emotion of fear … effects all human decision making.
Even if they win that affect is a key motivator for action, it is both insufficient and ineffective in decisionmaking
Sabine M. Marx et al 2007, “Communication and mental processes: Experiential and analytic
processing of uncertain climate information,” Global Environmental Change 17, google it
Yet, while the engagement of experience-… and group decision-making.
Prioritizing emotion overwhelms rationality and ensures that decision-making fails
George F. Loewenstein et al 2001, “Risk as Feelings,” Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, No. 2, google it
Although neither the affect-as-… to situations—to “conquer their fears.”
We still need to use reason to make sense of affect and to generate decisions
George F. Loewenstein et al 2001, “Risk as Feelings,” Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, No. 2, google it
In this article, we propose a … their likelihood of occurring.
Cost-benefit analysis is critical to avoid a politics of fear
George F. Loewenstein et al 2001, “Risk as Feelings,” Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 127, No. 2, google it
The divergence between the emotional reactions of the public to risks and professionals' appraisals of risks creates a significant dilemma for policy makers. On the one hand, many policy makers would …gasoline and radon in homes).
No Solvency – There is no way to predict the impact that a narrative will have on readers—some will be motivated and others will use it for security
Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith 2004
Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights
Biography 27.1 () 1-24
Kay Schaffer is Adjunct Professor in the Department of Social Inquiry at the University of Adelaide. She is presently engaged in a research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, to study narratives of identity, place, and belonging in the wake of human rights inquiries in South Africa and Australia.
Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies and chair of the Department of English at the University of Michigan.
In the midst of the transits … attention they seek and garner.
Abandonment of enlightenment reason means the death of politics for a pursuit of direct violent conflict – even if violence doesn’t erupt the conditions of the status quo become worse in policy – turns the aff.
Sherry in 96
Suzanna, Prof of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law @ University of Minnesota, Georgetown Law Journal, “The Sleep of Reason”, February, 84 Geo. L.J. 453
Some, however, have suggested …a mutilation of female genitalia. 150
We must have debates about future catastrophe-this is the only way to create a consciousness shift in the public that prevents capitalist elite fill in. To ignore catastrophe is unethical. Their epistemology arguments are not sufficient to reject all catastrophic impacts.
Fuyuki Kurasawa in 2k4 (Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, and a Faculty Associate of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, 2004, Cautionary Tales: The Global Culture of Prevention and the Work of Foresight http://www.yorku.ca/kurasawa/Kurasawa%20Articles/Constellations%20Article.pdf
Lastly, I contended that the … in the here and now.
