Tournament: Crestian Tradition  Cypress Bay | Round: 6 | Opponent: Roberto Abbasi | Judge: Matt Medeiros
The politics of the AC perpetuates anthropocentric oppression- their faith in the progressive nature of their project a priori excludes the non-human and leads to a view of the individual that makes the exploitation of nature inevitable. Bell and Russell 2K:

(Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universi- ty and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa- tion, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf-http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf ~10/24/11~)

Bowers (1993a, 1993b) has identified a number of root metaphors or "
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might constitute language, agency, and meaningful existence beyond the human realm.

The AC’s silence is a loaded presence- their forgetting of the non-human world and the individualistic formation of agency ensure the replication of prevailing anthropocentric power relations. Bell and Russell 2K:

(Anne C. by graduate students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York Universi- ty and Constance L. a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Educa- tion, University of Toronto, Beyond Human, Beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn, http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf-http://www.csse-scee.ca/CJE/Articles/FullText/CJE25-3/CJE25-3-bell.pdf ~10/24/11~)

For this reason, the various movements against oppression need to be aware of and
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Russell, Bell, 26 Fawcett, 2000), anthropocentrism passes unchallenged.1

Anthropocentric ordering is the foundation of the war machine and drives the exclusion of populations based on race, ethnicity and gender.
Kochi 2K9:

(Tarik, Sussex law school, Species war: Law, Violence and Animals, Law Culture and Humanities Oct 5.3)

Grotius and Hobbes are sometimes described as setting out a prudential approach,28 or
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of life preferred for preservation within the early modern juridical ordering of war.

Evaluate impact solvency based on who solves the root cause—proximate causes are useless and only replicate their harms. Shaw and Wong 89

Shaw and Wong, 89 - *Ph.D., Health Economist and Program at Adviser of the Human Development Group at the World Bank AND HSBC Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Business at the University of British Columbia (*R. Paul AND Yuwa, 1989, Genetic Seeds of Warfare: evolution, nationalism and patriotism, Google Books, p. 11-12)

So far, we have synthesized many studies indicating that intergroup warfare is a frequent
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proximate causes which emerged in humanity’s early history to reinforce propensities for warfare.

Alternative Text: Adopt an animal standpoint epistemology.

Only adopting an animal standpoint epistemology solves their impacts—it’s also mutually exclusive with the aff

Best, 10 – Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso (Steven, 12/31/10, "Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21^st Century", http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/total-liberation-revolution-for-the-21st-century-4/-http://drstevebest.wordpress.com/2010/12/31/total-liberation-revolution-for-the-21st-century-4/, KONTOPOULOS)

But while people have written history from the theological perspective, the humanist perspective,
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exploitation of nature have deep roots in the human domination over nonhuman animals.

The perm fails-the attempt to embrace animals flattens out difference as the specifics of species based oppression are cast aside- this anthropocentric move disables the ability of the affirmative to empower the non-human
Ahuja 2k9

(Neel, Asst Prof English and Comparative Lit at UNC, Postcolonial critique in multispecies world, www.unc.edu/~nahuja/Ahuja20-20PMLA.pdf-http://www.unc.edu/~nahuja/Ahuja - PMLA.pdf ~10/24/11~)

Race and species—concepts that precede modern scientific thought—were historically united in
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critique that holds race and species as intersecting yet discrete aspects of identity.

The perm fails-Don’t fall for the affirmatives enlightened anthropocentrism—their paternalistic politics ensures the colonization of the nonhuman
Domanska, 10

(Ewa, Assoctiate professor of theory and history or historigophy at Adam Mickiewicz Univ, visiting associate prof dept of Anthro @ Stanford, "Beyond Anthropocentrism in Historical Studies" http://www.nnet.gr/historein/historeinfiles/histvolumes/hist10/historein10-domanska.pdf-http://www.nnet.gr/historein/historeinfiles/histvolumes/hist10/historein10-domanska.pdf ~10/24/11~) 

More and more, the humanities are extending their debates about identity, alterity and
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anthropogenetic or "anthropological machine" – to use Giorgio Agamben’s term.35