College debate tournaments are now performance art!

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Should the President's war powers be restricted?


How do you debate someone who isn't even debating the same issue as you are?
 
Looks like someone is trying to undermine the ability to think. This isn't debate, it's marketing.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Looks like someone is trying to undermine the ability to think. This isn't debate, it's marketing.
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These videos are the debates of the top 4 teams in this years competition!

I guess it's actually a good preparation for their future, a future where logic and reason are less valuable then having a well prepared victim monologue.
 

If home is necessary for members of aggrieved communities to find the power to resist, debate precludes the possibility of becoming a site of resistance for those who need it now: Our stylistic norms for engagement are not only inaccessible but discourage people from even attempting to find home. It is nearly impossible for disenfranchised individuals who have been trained to believe they will never succeed to become attached to this activity when they don’t feel welcome. Not only are their perspectives dismissed, but they themselves as people. ... The current focus on the structure of debate and not those individuals who reside here means that the welcoming relationships of home are never present.
Also, the form and content of arguments are structured by the politics of displacement that necessitates the search for home in the first place. Debaters have forgone the speech for the speech doc and spew horror stories that train us to be disempowered citizens that never act in the face of actual oppression. Our current model of debate is disconnected from the lived realities of those affected by structural violence. That makes this activity useless to those who need it, and turns oppression into a game for those who are already here.​
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FluffyMcDeath said:
Looks like someone is trying to undermine the ability to think. This isn't debate, it's marketing.
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It's funny you should say that because I don't see any real debates going on here either, just a lot of regurgitated lies and foreign propaganda.
 
Glaucus said:
It's funny you should say that because I don't see any real debates going on here either, just a lot of regurgitated lies and foreign propaganda.
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Nice trolling, Tigger. Now give Mike his account back.

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