Posted on 04/18/2014 3:33:09 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
It used to be that if you went to a college-level debate tournament, the students you’d see would be bookish future lawyers from elite universities, most of them white. In matching navy blazers, they’d recite academic arguments for and against various government policies. It was tame, predictable, and, frankly, boring.
No more.
These days, an increasingly diverse group of participants has transformed debate competitions, mounting challenges to traditional form and content by incorporating personal experience, performance, and radical politics. These “alternative-style” debaters have achieved success, too, taking top honors at national collegiate tournaments over the past few years.
But this transformation has also sparked a difficult, often painful controversy for a community that prides itself on handling volatile topics.
On March 24, 2014 at the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA) Championships at Indiana University, two Towson University students, Ameena Ruffin and Korey Johnson, became the first African-American women to win a national college debate tournament, for which the resolution asked whether the U.S. president’s war powers should be restricted. Rather than address the resolution straight on, Ruffin and Johnson, along with other teams of African-Americans, attacked its premise. The more pressing issue, they argued, is how the U.S. government is at war with poor black communities.
In the final round, Ruffin and Johnson squared off against Rashid Campbell and George Lee from the University of Oklahoma, two highly accomplished African-American debaters with distinctive dreadlocks and dashikis. Over four hours, the two teams engaged in a heated discussion of concepts like “nigga authenticity” and performed hip-hop and spoken-word poetry in the traditional timed format. At one point during Lee’s rebuttal, the clock ran out but he refused to yield the floor. “Fuck the time!” he yelled...
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It should be clear that in this context “white” is a proxy for conservative Judeo-Christian values (or what is left of them), and “not white” or “of color” is a proxy for socialist. Moreover, the issue is to purge their society of everything connected with this “white” with the assumption that what remains will be ideologically harmonious.
To the extent that this is being advocated by people who are themselves Caucasian, they are of the mindset that they have made it clear they repudiate conservative Judeo-Christian values, maybe even to the extent they participate in public displays of repudiation by protesting what they call “white privilege.”
Liberal self-loathing has driven them all mad.
The irrefutable rebuttal is that black subcultures are poor by choice.
Were the members of the subculture, especially the urban subcultures, to decide they wanted a different life, all they have to do is to just make the change. They are free to do so.
That would have troubled me too. Giving an account of the pro’s and con’s of an issue is not the same as being forced into being devil’s advocate.
They were too uneducated to know a thing about presidential war powers. That is the simple unescapable fact. But they DO know all about the neverending racial grievances prompted by Sharpton & Jackson LLC. So that's what they screamed about. Indiana University is dumbing itself down by encouraging this.
Fear of the race card, aka Black Privilege?
“At one point during Lee’s rebuttal, the clock ran out but he refused to yield the floor. “Fuck the time!” he yelled”
THAT tells you everything you need to know about where our ‘culture’ is going.
It is apparent in all and everything.
“White privilege” - The “privilege” to realize early on that working class whites have to work twice as hard as everyone else due to self hating whites and political correctness.
“Over four hours, the two teams engaged in a heated discussion of concepts like “nigga authenticity” and performed hip-hop and spoken-word poetry in the traditional timed format.”
Swami says: I see in your future EBT cards and section 8 housing. Here’s your prize, debaters: One case of MD 20-20.
I imagine their opponents spent the time trying to bring the debate back to the topic at hand....
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I doubt it, considering that one of the Oklahoma “debaters” yelled the obscenity when informed that his time was up.
This is just so absurd that I actually went back to check the source given here to make sure this was not from the “Onion”.
There is no such a thing as 'white privilege'. Its a racist fabrication.
These new debaters are experiencing the end point of the usefulness of their debating “skills,” while white students go on to use traditional skills in the courtroom and the boardroom, neither venue of which tolerates such self-indulgent nonsense.
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Perhaps not in the courtroom of today, but I can see it coming.
Why have a “traditional” debate when “diverse” groups can simply mug their opponents and call it social justice?
There is no such thing as “white privilege.”
“Over four hours, the two teams engaged in a heated discussion of concepts like “nigga authenticity” and performed hip-hop -——————”
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And this is where I stopped reading.
Academics can’t get much lower than this.
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“White privilege” is a self-loathing de facto admission by non-whites that Western Civilization with its Judeo-Christian roots is superior to the rest of the world’s civilization. It certainly is in decline, but nothing else can hold a candle to it.
That can be empirically proven by those who have a choice as to what “race” they identify as.
It would be obvious that anyone given the choice would choose to identify with the “race” with the most privilege.
When you look at everyone that tries to claim some “minority” status, you see that the privilege enforced in our current society is not in being “white”.
Even with a college education the "authentic niggas" are oblivious to the fact that DEMOCRATS run the governments that are home to most all the poor black communities in this country.
They obviously agree with Al Sharpton about the current bi-racial, president's lack of black authenticity!
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