Tournament: VBT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Meadows ME | Judge: rkuang
Link: The aff's rhetoric of "developing countries" reinforces fundamentally Western hierarchies. Development is inextricably linked to progress – implies inferiority of the non-Western nations and obscures reality.
Gilbert 4 (Jane - Consultant Clinical Psychologist, British Psychological Society (BPS) Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow, “Development: The Power of a Word to Define our World,” http://www.janegilbert.co.uk/unpublished20papers/Development20-20the20power20of20a20word20to20define20our20world.pdf)
Because thinking cannot ... to Western "standards." 

Impact: "Development" discourse involves historical trends of Western domination over the Third World and the social construction of underdeveloped nations.
Escobar 95 (Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – (1995. “Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.” Pgs. 3-4. Princeton University Press.)
This dream was ... the social imaginary. 

And, The discourse of “Development” encourages colonialism- it creates a civilizing mission.
Nayar 99 (University of Warwick School of Law (Jayan, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, “SYMPOSIUM: RE-FRAMING INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Orders of Inhumanity”, Vol. 9, Issue 2, Hein Online SW)
Since the demise ... the settler's place

The judge has an obligation as an educator to form a learning environment that challenges oppressive colonial ideologies. Kempf:
Kempf, Arlo, and Dei, George Sefa J. Anti-colonialism and Education: The Politics of Resistance. Rotterdam: Sense, 2006. Web. https://www.sensepublishers.com/media/67-anti-colonialism-and-educationa.pdf
The anti-colonial classroom ... and learning processes.

Alt: Reject the aff's discourse, rhetoric is a logical precondition to normative systems so a linguistical deconstruction is necessary for change against the colonial empire.
Kobayashi 94 (Audrey, Direct. Institute of Women’s Studies @ Queen’s, Gender, Place, and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 1, 2, p. 225, JM)
What we can ... level of competence 

Questioning the developmental discourse of the AC opens up social space for change – it creates a Rupture in neo-developmentalism.
Escobar 10 – PhD in Philosophy, Policy, and Planning (Arturo, 12 January 2010, 'LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS', Cultural Studies, 24: 1, 1 — 65, http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/text/eng/escobar.2010.CulturalStudies.24-1.pdf)IV
IV. Ecuador: between neo-developmentalism ... neodevelopmentalism and post-development.