AC Solvency: A/t #4 “Exploitation Turn” [4/4] 193

2AC Solvency: A/t #4 “Exploitation Turn” [4/4] 193

[Jacques, sociologist by training and formerly a university professor of management, is an independent writer living in Santa Cruz, California; and Sergey, lives in Silicon Valley and works in business development; “If Mexicans and Americans Could Cross the Border Freely”, Summer, http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_14_01_6_delacroix.pdf]

A/t: “We aren’t Immigrants” 194

The LatCrit movement must become inclusive and transcend strictly racial boundaries in order to be more successful. Adding our voices to the struggle makes it stronger.
JOHNSON, 2000

[Kevin, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, University of California at Davis School of Law; “Celebrating LatCrit Theory: What Do We Do When the Music Stops?;" 33 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 753 1999-2000]

Critics might claim that the LatCrit movement has strayed from its Latina/o roots. The "rotating centers" concept captured in the tide to LatCrit IV, however, allows us to be inclusive and to consider the subordination of other peoples of color and the relationship to Latinas/os' status in the United States. As LatCrit theorists have observed, Latina/o subordination is related to and connected with other subordinations. To fully understand one, we must comprehend them all. Moreover, the inclusiveness of LatCrit theory is an important source of strength that holds great promise for the future. Inclusiveness has fostered coalitions and mutual self-help. It has built good will and promoted serious scholarship in new and important ways. Inclusiveness allows the LatCrit community to engage in ongoing intellectual ferment and allows it to remain dynamic rather than static. As LatCrit matures, we must anticipate external challenges and continuing, perhaps mounting, internal tensions. The maturation process may well subject LatCrit to attack, such as that leveled at Critical Race Theory, feminist jurisprudence, and other critical genres. As we prepare for external critiques, we should keep in mind that Critical Race Theory ("CRT") has been vulnerable to attack because critics have ascribed certain intellectual positions as part of CRT orthodoxy. Yet, CRT remains difficult to reduce to fundamental tenets because its fluid and eclectic approach encompasses diverse methodologies from many disciplines. LatCrit should retain the prerogative to define and redefine itself rather than be defined by critics. Constant self-criticism and selfdefinition is essential to a movement as dynamic as LatCrit. To fend off external attacks effectively, LatCrit theorists must address internal tensions within the movement. We must support each other and be ready to respond to the future intellectual challenges. Striving to maintain unity, LatCrit theorists must resist the centrifugal pressures toward disintegration. To this end, LatCrit must keep internal tensions in perspective and learn the lessons of the past. Importantly, LatCrit theorists cannot let the personal dominate the intellectual and allow interpersonal antagonisms to undermine the project. Specifically, we must avoid at LatCrit conferences, the spontaneous "slash-andburn, hold-no-prisoners, hypercritical attack upon some unfortunate and often unsuspecting target." In that vein, we hopefully will never see the day when so-called "attack scholarship" focuses on each other's work. We must nip in the bud the development of schisms along gender, class, national origin, racial, and other lines. One way to ease tensions is to recognize and encourage separate investigations of specific group histories, both inside and outside LatCrit 83 All of these competing strands and thoughts must continue to be included within the umbrella LatCrit intellectual community.

2AC Framework: Disadvantages [1/3] 195

1) Their impact claims are reasons to reject the Negative team. Their rhetoric masks an inherent fear of instability that creates threats from nothing and obsesses over war and violence because it is the only explanation for the world they have ever known. This is neither neutral nor objective, but a creation of the Negative’s imagination.
DER DERIAN, 98

[James, Watson Institute research professor of international studies at Brown, “The Value of Security: Hobbes, Marx, Nietzsche, and Baudrillard,” On Security, ed. Lipschutz, http://www.ciaonet.org/book/lipschutz/lipschutz12.html]

No other concept in international relations packs the metaphysical punch, nor commands the disciplinary power of "security." In its name, peoples have alienated their fears, rights and powers to gods, emperors, and most recently, sovereign states, all to protect themselves from the vicissitudes of nature--as well as from other gods, emperors, and sovereign states. In its name, weapons of mass destruction have been developed which have transfigured national interest into a security dilemma based on a suicide pact. And, less often noted in international relations, in its name billions have been made and millions killed while scientific knowledge has been furthered and intellectual dissent muted. We have inherited an ontotheology of security, that is, an a priori argument that proves the existence and necessity of only one form of security because there currently happens to be a widespread, metaphysical belief in it. Indeed, within the concept of security lurks the entire history of western metaphysics, which was best described by Derrida "as a series of substitutions of center for center" in a perpetual search for the "transcendental signified." From God to Rational Man, from Empire to Republic, from King to the People--and on occasion in the reverse direction as well, for history is never so linear, never so neat as we would write it--the security of the center has been the shifting site from which the forces of authority, order, and identity philosophically defined and physically kept at bay anarchy, chaos, and difference. Yet the center, as modern poets and postmodern critics tell us, no longer holds. The demise of a bipolar system, the diffusion of power into new political, national, and economic constellations, the decline of civil society and the rise of the shopping mall, the acceleration of everything --transportation, capital and information flows, change itself--have induced a new anxiety. As George Bush repeatedly said--that is, until the 1992 Presidential election went into full swing--"The enemy is unpredictability. The enemy is instability." One immediate response, the unthinking reaction, is to master this anxiety and to resecure the center by remapping the peripheral threats. In this vein, the Pentagon prepares seven military scenarios for future conflict, ranging from latino small-fry to an IdentiKit super-enemy that goes by the generic acronym of REGT ("Reemergent Global Threat"). In the heartlands of America, Toyota sledge-hammering returns as a popular know-nothing distraction. And within the Washington beltway, rogue powers such as North Korea, Iraq, and Libya take on the status of pariah-state and potential video bomb-site for a permanently electioneering elite.

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