Case

They constantly homogenize China. They have said china bad, china can be
engaged with
 TUCK AND YANG
Ignoring images of suffering degrades ethics and legitimizes
the worst violence
Sontag 3
Our use of empathy in conjunction with broader critique
enables successful anti-racist movements even if it remains in
local spaces like debatestar this card
Chabot Davis 4
 FW
We Meet:
Operation mechanism is dialogue, discourse, and spreading
Mosuo representations of themselves. Just XAP all our
solvency evidence that the neg never countered, namely
bleaker 97 from the 1AC and 2AC. Because discourse shapes
reality and policy, we do access a strategy in which we are in
institutions; however, the aff is needed to repair harmful
orientalist epistemologies. The reason the Mosuo are in this
situation is discourse and the only way to reverse the process
is accurate discourse, which propagates accurate reps.

a. Education still meaningful discourse happening in the

round, and debate about epistemology is a true debate. A
competition of ideas is critical to learning and fostering
democratic politics.
1. Limits on the least heard voices turns education
entirely. Another goddamn Russia Disad leads to no
new knowledge. Spreading accurate knowledge about
the Mosuo people solves misleading and harmful
representations, cross apply solvency ev from the 1AC.
2. We only take our discourse and ideas out of this round
when we leave, constructing better discourse is the
best form of education.
3. Their education is white, and technocratic privileges
homogenous views of China and damages the potential
of Mosuo people being able to define their own
experiences
 b. Ground - Still have lots of ground any k ever, can provide
policy alts, they could say we dont need the aff for
effective engagement with China, or that we dont solve,
or any slew or stock issues.
c. Reasonability - Aff wins reasonability we are germane to
the topic and our aff is effectively a focused Orientalist
kritik which they should have multiple files on- means we
are predictable and fair.
d. Predictability- Our aff was on the wiki- no different from
topical affs theyve never seen before or situations in
which teams break new affs
Pre-req to T
3. Method first. Debates about method are a prerequisite to
constructive policy. Their framework prevents meaningful
political debate.
Kurki 8 Milja Kurki, Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at
Aberystwyth University, 2008 (Introduction: causation and the divided discipline,
Causation in International Relations: Reclaiming Causal Analysis, Published by
Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521882972, p. 8-9)
It should be noted that the approach adopted here is unashamedly theoretical and
philosophical in nature. While philosophical, or meta- theoretical, discussions have
often been subjected to criticism from the more empirically minded IR scholars, in
my view philosophical reflection on the key concepts we use frequently, such as
causation, is fundamental in the social sciences, IR among them. This is because,
as Colin Wight puts it, conceptual inquiry is a necessary prerequisite to
empirical research.21 Without an adequate understanding of the ways in which we
apply concepts, appreciation of the reasons for our conceptual choices, and
recognition of the strengths and the weaknesses [end page 8] that our use of key
concepts entail, we run the risk of conducting empirical studies that we cannot
justify or that amount to nothing more than aimless fact-finding. Also, we risk
not being able to understand how and why our accounts might differ from those of
others and, hence, are not able to engage in constructive debate with other
perspectives. This book is motivated by the belief that IR has not become too
theoretical or philosophical at the expense of empirical inquiry:22 rather it still
remains inadequately reflective towards many fundamental concepts used
in empirical analyses. While meta-theoretical, or philosophical, debate is clearly in
and of itself not the sole or the central aim of Inter- national Relations scholarship, it
should not be forgotten that the ways in which we see and analyse the facts of
the world political environment around us are closely linked to the kinds of
underlying assumptions we make about meta-theoretical issues, such as the
nature of science and causation. Indeed, the analysis here is motivated by the belief
that whenever we make factual, explanatory or normative judgements about world
political environments, important meta-theoretical filters are at work in
directing the ways in which we talk about the world around us, and these filters are
theoretically, linguistically, methodologically, and also potentially politically
consequential.23 It follows that philosophical investigation of key concepts such
as causation should not be sidelined as hair-splitting or meta-babble,24 but
embracedor at least engaged withas one important aspect of the study of
international relations.

a. XAP Scott 9, Pan 12, and Bleiker 97 from the 1AC- even if
you think being topical under their definition is a good
thing, voting aff is a pre-requisite to building the
vocabulary, creating the critical consciousness, and
constructing better discourse in order to actually engage
with China, voting aff is a pre-requisite to debate
topicality. This also counters all of their arguments about
China literacy and education.
2. Imperialism DA engagement plans necessarily deny China
its agency and attempt to convert China in the Western image.
Its impossible to defend a topical plan without defending this
imperial project thats Pan.
 TVA
State-centricity leads to a monopoly on education that silences
Asian voices.
Biswas 7
State focus kills critical education testing all parts of an
action is key to international scholarship. This is a portable
impact
Biswas, Associate Professor of Politics, 7
The fact that they even included the US and PRC in the plan
text shows that they link to both of these impacts. Not only
does the Biswas card show that the TVA will turn on itself, but
it also destroys the education which they say is the net benefit
to the TVA. They also engage with the PRC. That is the very
idea that the Aff is criticizing. The thought that the Neg can
interact with this totalized, homogenized body of China further
contributes to the orientalist logic that we criticize. Thats
Parenti 13, They cannot engage with China as a whole,
meaning they will never be able to do anything.
 Deliberation
5. No Deliberation Skills Impact students already learn
decision-making skills in school, through life experience, and
in other debates. Reading a topical plan in a particular debate
doesnt matter.

The counterinterp accesses their decisionmaking impact

ethics are keythis is their author
Steinberg and Freeley 2008
Their cards are not about contest debate, but about dialogic
processes of deliberation - Debate is distinct from deliberative
dialogue
Anderson, Professor of Philosophy Babson College, 98
Their notion of agonistic respect is a life-denying destruction
of the agon. Fairness doesnt come from the judge but from
unfeterred contestation of will only by challenging the rules
of the game can we make this possible
Siemens 13

Contest debating rewards strategic behavior and domination

via attempts to win that make it impossible to use as a space
for deliberative democracy
Lovbrand 10
 China Literacy
Their knowledge about China is not neutral or objective. China
cant be reduced to an object of study.
Pan 12
Their so-called China experts use flawed methodologies. Their
conclusions should be rejected.
Pan 4

.Our alternative epistemology produces individualized

strategies for different racialized identities, providing a
disruption to the racist system that is designed to kill targeted
communities. This individualized praxis creates a collectivizing
of communities that were never meant to survive in order to
disrupt normative political systems such as Orientalism. The
aff breaks down capitalist narratives of the Mosuo as death-
awaiting symbols of value.
Gumbs 10

We never said China is bad. Thats the problem that the Aff
present. The idea that all of China is responsible for the
suffering of the Mosuo is exactly what we critique. There is no
offense on this. We said that the PRC are bad.