Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Alyssa Zandt | Judge: Ivin Lam
The contemporary idea of objectivity is dominated by discourses of neoliberal understandings of truth, science and knowledge – this vicious system co-opts the benefits of the aff and reifies Western superiority.
Cunningham '03 ~Brent Cunningham (CJR's managing editor), Aug 2003, Columbia Journalism Review, "Re-thinking Objectivity", https://archives.cjr.org/feature/rethinking_objectivity.php~~ SLHS-CL
In his March 6 press conference, in which he laid out his reasons for
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"We need a way to both do our job and defend it."
Neoliberal structure excludes the disadvantaged and directs power to the elites, which perpetuates cycles of inequality – turns case.
Monbiot '16
Monbiot, George. "Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems." the Guardian. 15 Apr. 2016. Web. 9 Oct. 2017. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-problem-george-monbiot. ~Columnist for the Guardian, political activist, recipient of two honorary doctorates and one honorary fellowship.~
"Another paradox of neoliberalism is that universal competition relies upon universal quantification and comparison
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the admirers of Trump, for example, facts and arguments appear irrelevant."
Massey '13
Doreen Massey. "Neoliberalism has hijacked our vocabulary." The Guardian. 11 Jun. 2013. Web. 9 Oct. 2017. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/11/neoliberalism-hijacked-vocabulary. ~Professor of geography at the Open University that specializes in globalization. Marxist scholar and recipient of three honorary doctorates.~
"At a recent art exhibition I engaged in an interesting conversation with one of
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our current economic 'common sense' needs to be challenged root and branch."
The role of the ballot is to deconstruct communicative capitalism – the ideology of capitalism has commodified university spaces and completely crowded out other modes of thinking.
Lissovoy '13
Lissovoy, Noah De. "Pedagogy of the Impossible: Neoliberalism and the Ideology of Accountability." Policy Futures in Education, vol. 11, no. 4, Aug. 2013, pp. 423–435, doi:10.2304/pfie.2013.11.4.423. ~Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin.~ NG
The contemporary explosion of communicative possibilities and platforms open to a diversity of perspectives (
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must change in order for the proper force of ideology to be confronted.
The role of the ballot is a prior question to other frameworks – capitalism fundamentally changes how we interpret the world and social interactions, which means it is impossible to accurately talk about agency in the real world without first contesting capitalism.
Pedagogy outweighs other framing issues – their arguments against the affirmative are epistemologically suspect because the university has been co-opted by capitalist forces. And, fiat is illusory – vote on what we do for the educational debate space, because that's the only tangible impact.