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-Speaking from an abstract, “zero-point” perspective is one rooted in Western philosophies that attempt to conceal and hide ethnic, racial, gendered, and sexual epistemic locations through a universalizing knowledge that leads to domination and hierarchy |
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-Grosfoguel 11 (Ramon, Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies) "Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political Economy: Transmodernity, Decolonial Thinking, and Global Coloniality." TRANSMODERNITY: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World 1, no. 1, 4-6 // SHSAM |
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-The first point achieving a universal consciousness, and to dismiss non-Western knowledge |
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-the European “ego conquistus” (“I conquer, therefore I am”). |
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-All aspects of life infected by the colonial virus—coloniality generates a permanent state of exception that is the root cause of the death ethics of war and underwrites a hellish existence where death, murder, war, rape, and racism are normalized |
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-Maldonado-Torres Nelson, associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers, ‘8 Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity, p. 237-8 // DDI13 |
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-In this work I have attempted to make explicit the subtle complicities between dominant epistemological |
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-and the source of many of its pathologies, crises, and evils. |
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-Internal moral standards differ from culture to culture—the aff is a Western attempt to dictate a view of human rights on other countries |
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-Gerhold K. Becker 95, Professor, Centre for APplied Ethics Hong Kong Baptist University, "Asian and Western Ethics: Some Remarks on a Productive TEnsion," Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 1995, http://eubios.info/EJ52/EJ52C.htm. |
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-It is, of course, here neither possible nor necessary to recall all the |
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-, it might be doubtful whether such a defensive strategy can indeed succeed. |
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-The alternative is to unlearn colonization—this requires a profound recentering of our worldview. Methodologies are key—unless indigenous rights are the foundation of our movement, colonial violence will continue to be replicated. |
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-Walia 12 (Harsha, South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. “Moving Beyond a Politics of Solidarity Towards a Practice of Decolonization”, 2012)//Miro |
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-Decolonization is as much a process as a goal. It requires a profound re |
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-be accommodated within other struggles; it demands solidarity on its own terms. |
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-The role of the judge is to act as a critical educator combating oppression—while obviously signing the ballot won’t make coloniality disappear, voting for strategies to combat oppression in this round makes us better activists in the future. |
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-Giroux 13 (Henry, American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, “Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University,” 29 October 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university) |
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-Increasingly, as universities are shaped by an audit culture, the call to be |
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-with others, and transform, when necessary, the world around them. |
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-And discussions of an ‘other’ thought system independently challenges colonial epistemologies. |
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-Walsh 07 (Catherine, “Shifting the Geopolitic of Critical Knowledge,” Cultural Studies, volume: 21, pg. 232, MCJC) SHSAM |
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-To speak of an ‘other’ critical thought then is to give credence to ongoing |
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-, a thinking typically associated with the Left and white-mestizo intellectuals. |