2021 Sept/Oct LD Topic - K Aff Series

In this 3 part video series, Anthony talks about affirmatives approaching the 2021 September/October LD Topic from a critical perspective.

In part 1, Anthony recommends looking at intellectual property from the standpoint of neoliberalism and accumulation because it's at the core of protection law. Anthony explains the difference between colonialism and neocolonialism and how looking at the WTO as an accumulation or expropriation of neocolonialism might be strategic for affirmatives.

In part 2, Anthony continues discussing critical aspects of the LD topic. When thinking about the WTO and neoliberalism, you should think about how neoliberalism structures issues that we face as a society today. Countries compete for certain markets, production, innovation, technology, and patents. Thinking about how the WTO invests in governing certain bodies so they can have a healthy, well fed, non-diseased, literate, not lacking in intelligence population. Anthony posits that's how the US governs itself and allows other nations to govern themselves accordingly. Impositions by the WTO ensures the continuation of neoliberalism because it legally binds nations into projecting intellection property protections as necessary.

In the final part of this series by Anthony on the 2021 September/October LD topic on WTO IP protections for medicines. In this video, Anthony talks about how the COVID-19 public health crisis has produced race based violence and identities. Thinking about how bodies in the status quo are constructed as different or Others is proof of power shifting through bodies of people of color. Anthony recommends potentially looking at an affirmative where the WTO wouldn't exist in the context of afro-pessimism or abolition democracy. Having an abolitionist praxis towards the WTO as a potential way to deal with racial oppression. Anthony recommends thinking about the WTO as a global policing body when constructing your affirmative.