Tournament: AV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker SP | Judge: Victor Rivas Umana
First, The aff’s conception of disability operates within the dominant frame of Western ethics. The thinker is assumed to be an idealized, rational agent that acts benevolently towards the disabled, which inaccurately constructs the disabled as an Other. MacIntyre ‘99
MacIntyre, Alasdair C., and Paul Carus. Dependent rational animals: Why human beings need the virtues. Vol. 20. London: Duckworth, 1999.
We human beings … in the future.
The aff is a view from nowhere – Speaking from an abstract, “zero-point” perspective is one rooted in Western philosophies that attempt to conceal and hide particularized epistemic locations. It leads to domination and hierarchy. Grosfoguel ‘11
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
The first point …concept of world-system?
And, Defining the boundries of disability inevitably excludes – it’s adopted as a technique to stifle dissent within movements and is particularly harmful for people with dealing with mental health. Humphrey 2k
Jill C. HUMPHREY, (Faculty of applied social science, the Open University, Researching disability politics, or, some problems with the social model in practice, Disability and Society 15.1) 2000
Third, the right to …examples should suffice.
The alt entails recognizing that that we are all, all have been and all will be vulnerable and dependent – there is no independent subject. We all need others, the only difference is to what degree. This entails embracing our vulnerability instead of doing everything possible to alleviate it, which is another link to the aff. Reynolds ‘13
Reynolds, Thomas E. Acting Vice-Principal Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Tornoto "Theology and disability." Searching for Dignity: Conversations on human dignity, theology and disability 131.3 (2013): 17.
This is why… of vulnerable interdependency.