Racial Capitalism & Intellectual Property Protections
This is an 8 part series on Racial Capitalism and the 2021 September-October LD Topic about WTO intellectual property protections for medicines.
In part 1, Nae begins to talk about what he predicts will be one of the most popular kritiks on the topic (hint: it is). If you want to get some background information on racial capitalism as a whole before watching this series, I highly recommend watching Taylor Brough's 3 part Racial Capitalism videos on this channel. Nae talks about the connection between the WTO and investment in different corporate institutions and how corporations leverage that investment. Nae suggests looking into how intellectual property transforms knowledge to create bare necessities like medicine to pathologize who is in control through science. The way we think about medicine changes the way we invest in medicine. Medical development and intellectual property are based on the history of outsourcing, unethical experiments, or erasure of black history like Henrietta Lacks.
In part 2, Nae goes through what your priorities should be when reading Racial Cap against policy/larp teams. First, Nae recommends an in-depth investment in the kritiking the type of advantages debaters will read on this resolution. Nae predicts policy teams having a small, not very diverse portfolio of impacts and the Racial Cap K being able to take advantage of this for your package your link and framework arguments. Nae recommends a thesis that says why the particularities of the plan doesn't matter because the entire field of the resolution is wrong. Nae breaks down the framework portion of the debate. He recommends starting with why the field of intellectual property is already anti-black. This part of the video is a must watch. Nae ends the video by contextualizing the framework portion of the debate with the thesis.
In part 3, Nae continues talks about the racial capitalism on the September/October LD topic. Nae suggests watching a video series on the policy water resolution and racial cap that I don't think I've released yet. Taylor Brough has a 3 part series on Racial Cap that was released around a month ago on this channel that should provide the same base layer level of understanding Nae suggests having to understand the content of this video. To start the link and permutation debate, Nae recommends watching the video before this, specifically the thesis part. Links to the values of their advantages is important because it makes the debate not about their plan text. When answering the perm, you should focus on why the world ordering they have destroys the ability to resist capitalism.
In part 4, Nae talks about answering Racial Capitalism from the perspective of a policy/larp aff.
In part 5, Nae talks more about how to answer racial capitalism. First, Nae begins discussing link arguments. Medicine as a bare necessity for how people can access life or death is an interesting place to start your link defense. Access to medicine allows people to have the ability to create resistance against capitalism in the first place and opens up for non-government level alternatives. This has material consequences that you can weigh against the alternative and its solvency.
In part 6, Nae talks about Racial Capitalism as an affirmative strategy on the 2021 September-October LD Topic. If you're interested in reading a Racial Cap Aff, this is a must watch.
In part 7, Nae starts by talking about why Racial Capitalism is such a good argument on the LD topic because it has endemic responses to all of the core arguments people make the topic. Nae thinks Racial Capitalism is really good against a lot of criticisms because it throws a curveball against the generic arguments most teams read against the generic capitalism/mark kritik. It is also good against criticisms because it has great arguments for framework in terms of why the debate and classroom are procedurally important. Nae highly suggests teams consider impact turning racial cap when answering it.
In the final part of this 8 part video series on Racial Capitalism and Intellectual Property Protections, Nae talks about answering racial cap affs. Nae suggests making a hard push on the internal link between the affirmative's ability to resolve the impacts they claim to solve. There is not a one to one correlation between the affirmative and resolving all of racial capitalism. Nae suggests finding which parts of your offense against Marxist theory still apply because some of them have to still apply and be ground for the negative. Nae also recommends taking up an impact framing strategy. From a T/Framework standpoint, you should start with the limits debate in a similar way to how you should handle the internal link.
