High School Students Disqualified From Debate After Quoting Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson (biased, party)
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It's a debate. Come up with an argument. Quoting other people in debates is not a debate.
His schtick is simple:
Strawman, exaggerated "liberal" position. Attack it with pointed language and trigger words. Folks cheer him as an intellectual because he confirmed something somewhere that they agree with.
It's a debate. Come up with an argument. Quoting other people in debates is not a debate.
His schtick is simple:
Strawman, exaggerated "liberal" position. Attack it with pointed language and trigger words. Folks cheer him as an intellectual because he confirmed something somewhere that they agree with.
That's not a real debate. It's a show.
If you read the article, it says they came prepared with a rebuttal for why restrictions on immigration shouldn't be lightened. The opposing team, rather than present facts, came with a "slam poem". If your position is to actually debate the points made by the first team, and the first team doesn't have a set of points, what the heck are you supposed to do?
If you read the article, it says they came prepared with a rebuttal for why restrictions on immigration shouldn't be lightened. The opposing team, rather than present facts, came with a "slam poem". If your position is to actually debate the points made by the first team, and the first team doesn't have a set of points, what the heck are you supposed to do?
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Originally Posted by NomadicDrifter
I'm not fond of quoting of people, especially bloggers, as if they're god to advance a debate but the other side was even worse and essentially don't know how to debate, just grandstand.
LOL, these kids are great students of Ben Shapiro.
They basically flipped the argument and the other side fell for it.
Affirmative Argument: Legality does not equal morally right
Negative Argument: Me being white doesnt change if something is legal or not, and the same is true of any color . I dont have to be apart of an oppressed group(aka lived experience ) to understand them.
Classic Shapiro. The problem is, having the ability to understand and actuallyUNDERSTANDING are not one in the same.
No one challenged their ability here. Just their actual understanding.
To be accurate here, these were high school students who are probably on a debate team. You're right that it probably doesn't matter but these types of things do go on college applications. 8-0 as a debate team looks better than 7-1.
Just sayin'.
There can be no debate about something posted that is wrong to start with. No one was disqualified. That the article states that, makes the article not worthy of further discussion.
Quoting Ben Shapiro is a good way to lose anything.
I have nothing good to say about Shapiro, but the point is that the judge is an anti-White racist activist, and his ruling violates the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.
I can't condemn the thread title as that is the article title but it's false. They lost a round, they were not disqualified. Sheesh, anyone that would quote Shapiro should expect to lose that round.
It was a high school debate. I really don't care what was said nor did I comment on what was said. There isn't even any way to tell out of a clearly biased story. As a judge if you quote Shapiro or Bill Maher, you lose that round. People in those positions are only interested in their truths.
You don't get to make the rules. As if someone who promotes theft and doesn't care about rights should be listened too.
It's about the content and not the person being quoted. Adults understand content, the ignorant make it about the speaker.
Good, this kid must not understand what a repulsive human being Shapiro is.
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