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It's funny, I have mixed feelings about my policy debate experience but the sort of tendentious criticism in the article makes me want to defend it. (I want to
by kalkin 3y ago
It's funny, I have mixed feelings about my policy debate experience but the sort of tendentious criticism in the article makes me want to defend it.
(I want to call the article ill-informed but I suspect the author is actually at least generally aware of all the dynamics you describe and just relying on their audience not to be.)
- whimsicalism 3y agoAs a former hs debater, the author is certainly not uninformed but I agree that they are writing to grnerate outrage rather than adequate reflection
- portpecos 3y agoI think that college sophomore’s intention was reflection, which led to outrage amongst you all.
- whimsicalism 3y agoThe quotes from judge's paradigms are clearly selected to generate outrage. I disagree that her intention was reflection, I think her intention was to get readers for slow boring. > “Before anything else, including being a debate judge, I am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist... I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I’m judging... I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions/arguments... Examples of arguments of this nature are as follows: fascism good, capitalism good, imperialist war good, neoliberalism good, defenses of US or otherwise bourgeois nationalism, Zionism or normalizing Israel, colonialism good, US white fascist policing good, etc.” This is not at all a typical judge paradigm, she had to search quite hard to find that (she also is wrong about where she got it from, this is not a 2023 ToC paradigm).