Alt Lang PIC:

brief

A. Disorientation: those who don’t speak the language are forced to confront an otherized perspective and challenge their own orientalist ontology. It creates an affective response that breaks up the continuous saturation of English and exposes how much English is taken as given and obvious.

B. Survival Strategies: the reading of the CP text in round is a survival strategy by colonized individuals to perpetually combating the orientalist narratives that erode their subjectivities, making it an independent voting issue.

C. This space key:The debate space is framed around the normalization of the English language, look to how judging qualifications at tournaments require English fluency.

  1. Avoids the NB: The CP is able to not only avoid the net benefit but solve for it, we indicate that the Orientalism of the 1AC stems from the impetus to do the aff in English linguistics, the CP does not do that so we solve.
  • No Perms:A. Perm doesn’t solve: The speaking of the CP text in round is key to solvency. Without the reading of the alt text in its original language, the Perm is impossible

B. Multiculturalism: The Perm is the logic of multiculturalism in which the indexing of ‘diversity’ into state based policy making is utilized as a justification for the continuation of the orientalist status quo. This not only means that the perm forwards the violent logics of the squo, but also that it forces non-white folks to assimilate via code switching if they are ever to be included within the world of the 1AC.

Net Benefit:- Ontological Affirmation: Celebrating our differences from colonial forces allow us to understand ourselves without relating to western subjectivity. The act of recognizing and embracing differences creates ontological affirmation for marginalized individuals. This is the most proximal impact that should be prioritized because this happens within the debate space. - Aff makes affirmation impossible: The 1AC forwards an ontological narrative in which speaking in English is the necessary prerequisite to engaging in [whatever the aff does]. Ontological narratives carry ideologies that filter engagement within larger structures through micropolitics, this means that the 1AC creates a structural condition in which non English speakers are obliterated from the possibility of affirming. - Overkill: This specific ontological narrative forwards the logic of overkill. Overkill speaks to a specific form of violence in which the eradication of specific populations is premised as necessary for the continuation of the status quo.