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Final round of most prestigious national high school debate tournament. Team A tells Team B they won't debate assigned topic (benefits/costs of the IMF) because trans people are being genocided by MAGA Republicans and that is way more important (twitter.com)
posted 2 years ago by YesMovement 2 years ago by YesMovement +71 / -0
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– YesMovement [S] 38 points 2 years ago +38 / -0

About 5 mins in. "Debate is not about winning an argument, it's about making sure everyone feels ok and making sure everyone feels safe."

An actual quote from what I can tell is the opposing team. They conceded the debate and gave the tranny ranters the W. They go on to say debating the topic doesn't matter because trans.

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– current_horror 38 points 2 years ago +38 / -0

So it was a coordinated stunt by both teams.

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– YesMovement [S] 23 points 2 years ago +23 / -0

I assume they're all just woke pussies.

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– BandageBandolier 24 points 2 years ago +24 / -0

Another actual quote. "I feel like a lot of judges don't realize, like, how violent debate is"... In reference to being misgendered.

You could spend hours trying to explain the fundamental material differences between violence and mean words, and they still wouldn't believe you. But a 2 minute demonstration at any point in their lives would probably fix that.

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– fauxgnaws 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0

Calling a debate violence is literally painful to me, in a metaphorical sort of way, but they never think about that do they? They're so self-centered.

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– RaceCreatesCulture 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

To be fair, I competed in debate in high school and university. The one thing I learned was that winning a debate has absolutely nothing to do with what you said and everything to do with how you said it. The good debaters make other people feel good about what they say. Debating is basically nothing more than being a con-artist in debate format.

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– HallucinatoryBeing 16 points 2 years ago +16 / -0

It's what happens when women become the majority of your electorate.

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– RaceCreatesCulture 17 points 2 years ago +17 / -0

And this is 100% correct of an assessment. Anyone ever in an argument with a woman before would recognize the implications. When a woman is proven wrong in an argument she spins the whole argument to be about how the way in which the man showed her she was wrong is wrong.

That's debate in a nutshell. You can be 100% right but if you said it in a manner the women didn't like, it doesn't matter how right you are.

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– cryogen 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

They're usually not "debating" in the sense of critically thinking together with the shared goal of arriving at the truth or a workable hypothesis, they're just "sharing." It's only about emotions and social signals, not the actual conceptual content or the pragmatic questions of what and how to do things.

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– TheMerleOfHaggard 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

There's a speech is violence section (paraphrased later on too). Complaining that the participants as well as the judges should be able to call out 'violence' when they experience it.

You'd think debate club would be the last place the 'I win because feelings' would pervade. How did they win that argument? Debate is over now, just say trans.

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– deleted 19 points 2 years ago +19 / -0

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