Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: Cypress Bay JS | Judge: Maeshal Abid
Creating a decision-making framework for these countries from the position of the West is problematic. Tikly 1
Leon Tikly, Education and the New Imperialism, Comparative Education , Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue (28): Postcolonialism and Comparative Education (May, 2004), pp. 173-198, Published by: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134648
Discourses about 'development' ... the European enlightenment. 

The impact is epistemic oppression. Andrews
Nathan Andrews Department of Political Science , University of Alberta, Canada., Eyene Okpanachi Andrews Department of Political Science , University of Alberta, Canada., Trends of Epistemic Oppression and Academic Dependency in Africa’s Development: The Need for a New Intellectual Path, 85, The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.5, no.8, December 2012
Epistemic oppression results ... forms of knowledge. 

This takes out the AC framework  A. developing countries could never actualize their obligations or B. their truth claims are rooted in a hegemonic philosophy

The alternative is to de-imperialize the current resolution by acknowledging our western epistemic bias and debating methods of empowerment for “developing countries” so that they can make their own decisions. Tikly 2
Leon Tikly,  Education and the New Imperialism, Comparative Education , Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue (28): Postcolonialism and Comparative Education (May, 2004), pp. 173-198, Published by: Taylor and Francis, Ltd., Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134648
At a theoretical ... anti-imperial politics.  

The role of the ballot is to endorse the best method of challenging the imperialist assumptions of the resolution. 

Understanding the discourse surrounding imperialism, and especially “development,” in an educational setting is necessary for any critical analysis we start. Tikly 3
 Leon Tikly, Education and the New Imperialism, Comparative Education , Vol. 40, No. 2, Special Issue (28): Postcolonialism and Comparative Education (May, 2004), pp. 173-198, Published by: Taylor and Francis, Ltd.Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4134648
In the above ... constructed and contested. 

Also, any truth claim is epistemically suspect thus there is always a higher order value in rejecting oppression so excluded voices can be incorporated into our own understandings. Clifford and Burke
Anti-Oppressive Ethics and Values in Social Work, Derek Clifford, and Beverley Burke. ,Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/1403905568.pdf

Our view of ... and culturally different. 

The NC is taking a stance against the imperialist discourse the 1AC perpetuates. Pretending that debate is merely a game is a failure to acknowledge our privilege and will perpetuate a system of exclusion and imperialism in the real world. Wise
White Like Me : Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son (09 January 2005) by Tim Wise
In this way, ... the planet’s inhabitants.

The ballot plays an expressive role. Snider 

Alfred C. Snider, Edwin Lawrence Assistant Professor of Forensics - University of Vermont, ‘04(http://debate.uvm.edu/ReplyFrank.doc, date from Archive.org, article also cites 2002 articles)

The challenges to ... you the win.

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: La Jolla RP | Judge: Chris Theis
CVL justifies the state. Onkwehon ‘13
ONKWEHÓN:WE RISING, JUNE 25, 2013, Declaration of the Revolutionary Front in Defense of the Peoples Rights on the Protests in Brazil, http://onkwehonwerising.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/declaration-of-the-revolutionary-front-in-defense-of-the-peoples-rights-on-the-protests-in-brazil/

and#34;The system we.....null or blank. and#34;

politicians beholden to elite. Hellinger and Brooks ‘91
Daniel Hellinger and Dennis R. Judd Brooks, The Best Elections Money Can Buy, The Democratic Façade, Cole Publishing Company, 1991, paperhttp://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Democracy_America/BestElections_Money_TDF.html

and#34;Until the problem...the and#34;populistand#34; candidate.and#34;

we need to change the system. Herod ‘04
James Herod, and#34;The Strategy described abstractly,and#34; Getting Free, 2004, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm

and#34;It is time...patterns and theirs.and#34;

cap screws normative evaluations. Morgareidge ‘97
Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College 1998 Clayton Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html’

and#34;Now none of...at the table.and#34;v

fight it with ideologies. Mclaren et’al ‘13
Critical Pedagogy Against Capitalist Schooling: Towards a Socialist Alternative. An Interview with Peter McLaren by Jose María Barroso Tristán. Peter McLaren is a Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (United States). He is the author and editor of forty-five books and hundreds of scholarly articles and chapters. 04/07, http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/critical-pedagogy-againstcapitalist-schooling-socialist-alternative-interview-peter-mclaren/

and#34;The question we ... post-patriarchal perspective.and#34;