Tournament: LSW | Round: 2 | Opponent: Millard South GM | Judge:
Color blind ideologies will always fail, they neglect the needs of marginalized groups and render people disposable.
Povinelli 13 Elizabeth A. Povinelli, 2013
Povinelli is Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender and the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Law and Culture at Columbia University. “Necropolitics”; The Anthropology of Biopolitics; February 23, 2013; https://anthrobiopolitics.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/necropolitics/”
Prioritize structural impacts – worst-case scenario predictions are based on threat exaggeration – this distorts rational decision-making and justify preemptive warfare
Mueller 11 John, Woody Hayes National Security Studies and Professor of Political Science @ Ohio State University, Mark, Professor of Civil Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Performance and Reliability at the University of Newcastle in Australia, “Terror, Security, and Money”, page numbers below
Structural Violence accounts for power relations better that abstract theories that ignore oppression
Winter and Leighton 99 Winter, D. D., and Leighton, D. C. (1999). Structural violence. In D. J. Christie, R. V. Wagner, and D. D. Winter (Eds.), Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. New York: Prentice-Hall.http://sites.saumag.edu/danaleighton/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2015/09/SVintro-2.pdf