Analysis based on patriarchy is ahistorical and reinforces colonialism – the root cause of gender oppression is solved by the alternative
Lugones, 7
(María, "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 187-188, doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01156.x.)//SDL //DDI13
Aff attempts to solve reinforce oppressive organizations - Feminist theory is entrenched in the colonial gender system
Lugones, 7
(María, "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 187-188, doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01156.x.)//SDL //DDI13
Aff authors ignore colonial gender system – this affirms the global system of power
Lugones, 7
(María, "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 187-188, doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01156.x.)//SDL //DDI13
The foundation of feminist theory is flawed – excluded non-white colonized women and characterized them as animals “without gender”
Lugones, 7. (María, Argentine scholar, philosopher, feminist, and an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture and of Philosophy and of Women's Studies at Binghamton University, "Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System." Hypatia 22, no. 1 (2007): 202-203, doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01156.x.)//SDL //DDI13
Postmodernism is rooted in Eurocentric forms of thought—transplanting modernist theory to the Third World is a violent new colonialism
Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature at Duke University, ’11 [The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, p. 128] //DDI13
We must delink from European thought
Mignolo (Professor of Literature in Duke University, Joint Appointments in Cultural Anthropology and Romance Studies) 2012
Walter, “Epistemic Disobedience and the Decolonial Option: A Manifesto,” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 52-53, NDW //DDI13
Post-modernism is a Eurocentric critique of Eurocentrism
Grosfoguel (Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies) 12
(Ramón, “Decolonizing Western Uni-versalisms: Decolonial Pluri-versalism from Aimé Césaire to the Zapatistas” 2012 http://escholarship.org/uc/item/01w7163v) //DDI13
Postcolonial theory takes for granted a false narrative of modernity that is particularly problematic in the Latin American context—reinscribes racialization, domination, dependence, and euro-modernity itself
Maldonado-Torres 4 [Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56] //DDI13
Deleuze’s thinking is Eurocentric and colonial
Saldívar 2006 (Saldívar, José David. "Border Thinking, Minoritized Studies, and Realist Interpellations: The Coloniality of Power From Gloria Anzaldúa to Arundhati Roy." In Identity Politics Reconsidered. Edited by Linda Alcoff. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.) //DDI13
Western philosophy is incompatible with decoloniality because it makes euro-centered History the dominating story of the world
Mignolo (Professor of Romance Languages at Duke University) 5
(Walter, “The Idea of Latin America,” pg. Preface) //DDI13
Benevolent leftism fails to account for its Western genealogy, the de-colonial battle is not only against capitalism but all forms of Occidentalist epistemology. A call to the communal avoids universalizing particular struggles that inevitably exclude and erase colonial violence.
Walter Mignolo, Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, “The communal and the de-colonial”, Turbulence: Ideas for Movement, No. 5, Decembe4 2009, pg. 30, TB //DDI13
When applied to Latin America, I would get immensely bored if we talked about the Americas specifically all the time and that’s Eurocentric but I would rather talk about Russia which is why I like the Russia DA so whatever).
Zizek’s epistemic racism and thorough embrace of the West must be rejected—perpetuates all underpinnings of modern/coloniality even if it’s a critique of modernity from within the West
Maldonado-Torres 4 [Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and
Zizek is a Eurocentric racist
Walter Mignolo, Professor of Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, “The Many Faces of Como-polis: Border Thinking and Critical Cosmopolitanism”, 12(3): 721-748, Fall 2k, TB //DDI13
Any universalizing demands inevitably exclude and contradict, subalterneity is able to question these limits without dominating because of its position as periphery.
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, "Decolonization and the New Identitarian Logics After September 11." Radical Philosophy Review 8, no. 1 (2005): 35-67, TB //DDI13
“Radical” democracy is just liberal democracy—it’s rooted squarely in the west
Conway and Singh 11 (Janet, Department of Sociology at Brock University, and Jakeet, Department of Political Science at Uni Toronto, “Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 689-706)-jn //DDI13
The aff overemphasizes hegemony which destroys diverse struggle
Conway and Singh 11 (Janet, Department of Sociology at Brock University, and Jakeet, Department of Political Science at Uni Toronto, “Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 689-706)-jn //DDI13
That means statism and the construction of a classical liberal nation
Conway and Singh 11 (Janet, Department of Sociology at Brock University, and Jakeet, Department of Political Science at Uni Toronto, “Radical Democracy in Global Perspective: notes from the pluriverse”, Third World Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 689-706)-jn //DDI13
Derrida and Habermas are blind to the colonial difference—their advocacy perpetuates racist geo-politics of modern/coloniality—only our alternative generates the space and radical critique to challenge epistemic and ontological racism—must critique their complicity here and now
Maldonado-Torres 4 [Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56] //DDI13
Negri’s modernity is the worst kind—ignores racism, sexism, segregation, and genocide across most of the planet
Maldonado-Torres 4 [Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56] //DDI13
Universalism are rooted in Eurocentric knowledge
Grosfoguel (Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies) 12
(Ramón, “Decolonizing Western Uni-versalisms: Decolonial Pluri-versalism from Aimé Césaire to the Zapatistas” 2012 http://escholarship.org/uc/item/01w7163v) //DDI13
Marxism is rooted in epistemic racism
Grosfoguel (Associate Professor Ethnic Studies Department, Chicano/Latino Studies) 12
(Ramón, “Decolonizing Western Uni-versalisms: Decolonial Pluri-versalism from Aimé Césaire to the Zapatistas” 2012 http://escholarship.org/uc/item/01w7163v) //DDI13
World-systems theory reinforces Eurocentrism
Maldonado-Torres ‘2 (Nelson, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers; “Postimperial Reflections on Crisis, Knowledge, and Utopia,” Review XXV, 3, p227-315) //DDI13
Habermas is wrong—the problem with modernity is rooted in its imperialist conceptions of space and time
Maldonado-Torres 4 [Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56] //DDI13
Foucault ignores history of colonialism as a foundation to relations between modernity and postmodernity
Mignolo 2000 [Walter, (Post)Occidentalism, (Post)Coloniality, and (Post)Subaltern Rationality, Postmodernism and the Rest of theWorld The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial studies edited by Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri 111-112] //DDI13
Heidegger’s position is profoundly Eurocentric and racist—dehumanizes other people
Maldonado-Torres 4 (Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56)-jn //DDI13
Heideggerian philosophy ensures epistemic racial violence against all that is not European and German—we must embrace decolonial thought
Maldonado-Torres 4 (Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56)-jn //DDI13
Though Heidegger may have subordinated Europe to its own devices, his philosophy is still racist and ideological
Maldonado-Torres 4 (Nelson, ethnic studies department at UC Berkeley, “The topology of being and the geopolitics of knowledge: Modernity, empire, coloniality”, City, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 21-56)-jn //DDI13
Forget Ranciere—he doesn’t consider the global south
Schiwy 11 (Freya, associate professor in the UC Riverside Department of Hispanic Studies, “‘Todos Somos Presidente/We Are All Presidents’: Democracy, culture, and radical politics”, Cultural Studies, Vol. 25, No. 6, November, pp. 729-756)-jn //DDI13
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