Balkanization nomenclature

If they even mention the word balkanization, go for this argument. You present this
as Theory, its also a priori.

**We do not endorse this racist language

The word Balkanization embodies and naturalizes ethnic
hatred Grubacic 14
(Andrej Grubacic, founding member of the Global Balkans, professor at the
California Institute of Integral Studies, The Balkanization of Bosnia, February 16th,
2014)
Kennan was right to point out two important factors: one is the ethnic and cultural mix of the Balkan
peoples, an ethnic Macedonian salad, a peninsula more diverse and tolerant of diversity then the
rest of Europe. The other factor is its stubborn refusal of what is forced upon Balkan people as
Europe and civilization. What is common to all these characterizations is what I refer to as

methodological balkanism. This common approach in scholarly literature about the

Balkans naturalizes ancient ethnic hatreds, ignoring the complex interplay
between European, Ottoman and local practices condensed in the word
balkanization. As Manu Goswami has shown in a different context, this method presupposes, rather
than examines, production and condensation of these specifically modern constructs. In
methodological balkanism ancient ethnic hatreds have acquired the fixity of common sense.
Methodological balkanism obscures a dynamic historical process of production of these ethnic
differences, as well as the struggle to overcome them. These silenced histories, these other
balkanizations, are radically relational, in a sense that they dont represent an autonomous sociocultural domain exempt from colonial or capitalist mediation. They do not constitute a pre-given and
irreducible difference; they are, instead, a dialectical product of the protracted encounter between
colonialism and received practices, subjectivities, and categories of understanding.

Impact Value to Life

Racism outweighs all other impacts including nuclear war:
there is no value to life in a world of racism
Mohan 93 (Brij, Professor at LSU, Eclipse of Freedom: The World of Oppression,
Praeger Publishers p. 3-4)
words can be
apocalyptic. "There are words," de Beauvoir writes, "as murderous as gas chambers"
(1968: 30). Expressions can be unifying and explosive; they portray explicit messages and
implicit agendas in human affairs and social configurations . Manifestly the Cold War is
Metaphors of existence symbolize variegated aspects of the human reality. However,

over. But the world is not without nuclear terror. Ethnic strife and political instabilities in the New World Order
-- following the dissolution of the Soviet Union -- have generated fears of nuclear terrorism and blackmail in
view of the widening circle of nuclear powers. Despite encouraging trends in nuclear disarmament,
unsettling questions, power, and fear of terrorism continue to characterize the crisis of the new age which is

The ordeal of existence transcends the

thermonuclear fever because the latter does not directly impact the day-to-day
operations if the common people. The fear of crime, accidents, loss of job, and
stumbling at the threshold of the twenty-first century.

health care on one hand; and the sources of racism, sexism, and ageism on
the other hand have created a counterculture of denial and disbelief that has
shattered the faade of civility. Civilization loses its significance when its social
institutions become counterproductive. It is this aspect of the mega-crisis that we are
concerned about

Dehumanization causes genocide, slavery, exploitation, and all

other forms of oppressionturns case.
Katheryn Katz, Professor of Law, 1997, "The Clonal Child: Procreative Liberty and Asexual Reproduction," Lexis-Nexis

It is undeniable that throughout human history dominant and oppressive groups

have committed unspeakable wrongs against those viewed as inferior . Once a
person (or a people) have been characterized as sub-human, there appears to have
been no limit to the cruelty that was or will be visited upon him. For example, in
almost all wars, hatred towards the enemy was inspired to justify the killing and
wounding by separating the enemy from the human race, by casting them as
unworthy of human status. This same rationalization has supported: genocide,
chattel slavery, racial segregation, economic exploitation, caste and class systems,
coerced sterilization of social misfits and undesirables , unprincipled medical
experimentation, the subjugation of women, and the social Darwinists' theory
justifying indifference to the poverty and misery of others.

Reject all affirmative arguments associated with the previously

mentioned word on the grounds of reducing racism, and
stopping oppression
Ignorance is the root of racism, vote neg on this principle.
Griffiths Columns 97
(Peter Griffith Columns, Discrimination is Ignorance, Western Producer, March 15 th
1997, http://www.lib.sk.ca/WP-Discrimination-Is-Ignorance)
The better you know someone, the more you likely understand them. The better
you understand stand, the less the chance that any differences between the two of
you will become a problem for either of you. As a matter of fact, instead of
becoming a problem, those differences can be of help to you. They allow both of
you to appreciate and work at understanding things that are different from you. This
tends to lead to your feeling appreciated by someone else, for being just who are
you. But when understanding, listen, learning about others and accepting that it's
okay to be different, doesn't take place, then discrimination and prejudice can
quickly become established. Where does discrimination come from? It comes from
ignorance and fear. It is fueled by "the unknown" which quickly gets transformed by
anxiety or fear.

READ THIS ^ IN THE 2NC IF THEY SAY WE DIDNT KNOW THIS SHOULD WIN YOU
THE DEBATE.
Then you can talk about how specifically, the affirmative is supporting oppression
and mass racism. Then just cross apply your impact cards. (Thats Mohan 93 and
Katz 97)