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1AC - Set ColTournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.Link - Space is the final frontier waiting to be exploited by the highest bidder.Araya 21 https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielaraya/2021/01/05/space-the-final-frontier/?sh=39f4af604843 Link - Western private entities are the only companies with the current technology to appropriate space, and they're on the brink of doing so.Rich 21https:www.investors.com/news/space-stocks-upstart-space-companies-moon-mars/ Link - Outer Space serves as a spatial fix for capitalism allowing it to overcome terrestrial constraints.Victor L. Shammas and Tomas B. Holen (2019). One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space. Palgrave Communications. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-019-0218-9 Impact - Space stands only to be a repeat of the colonialist practices that marked extinction for a multitude of cultures.Billings 19-1 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016328718303136 Impact - "New Space" looks a lot like the "New World" with its colonial violence, class conflict, and racial discrimination.Billings 19-2 file:///home/chronos/u-24a52786249959e8c0ae18f3ea5e15b77ac40533/MyFiles/Downloads/Billings.TheologyandScience153August2017.pdf Settler colonialism is culture killing. Soft impacts are sometimes worse.Macmillan Voskoboynik 18 https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/colonialism-can-t-be-forgotten-it-s-still-destroying-peoples-and-our-pl/ Impact - Colonialism remains psychologically violent, it's sustained intergenerational trauma.Lukens Traore 04 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021934703258986 Impact - Colonialism is the father of tangible systemic violence, read: police brutality.The alternative is to reject private entities and infrastructure that supports settler colonialism.Privatization is the root of dehumanization and systemic violence. It has to go.Privatization is critical Western infrastructure. This is the only solvency method.Ross 21 https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/040615/how-are-capitalism-and-private-property-related.asp The role of the ballot is to reject set colonists. The opponent is a colonizer and unless they gut all three links you vote on the role of the ballot.Chatlani 13 https://georgetownvoice.com/2013/10/10/time-industrialized-nations-reject-neocolonialism/ Rejecting setcol means acknowledging privilege, a thing of abundance in this space.Intrepid n.d. https://www.intrepidtravel.com/nl/ethical-marketing-policy/reject-neocolonialism Setcol will kill us if we don't kill it first: it breeds climate change, conflict. | 12/19/21 |
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