No.
No.
Fo’ shizzle my debatin’ nizzles!
So rational thought and argumentation goes out the window in order to pander to these “winners?”
No. Just no.
As a former high school debater, I found the article interesting at several levels. On the surface, I’m astounded that the judges have awarded teams with confrontational approaches to the debate that ignore the stated question. In addition, a prime directive within the debate context was that debate was a combination of persuasive evidence and argumentation skills which included framing the discussion using logic and rhetoric. Nowhere within that was personal experience or anecdote considered to be an element that would lead to success in the debate.
I’m 56 years old. When do I get my white privilege?
They’re just peeved that “You Rasis” isn’t considered a valid argument.
Well if you axed me.
This is a confused piece of writing. The two Towson students didn't "attack the premise." They free-associated off the words "war powers" and simply changed the subject. I imagine their opponents spent the time trying to bring the debate back to the topic at hand, while the Towsonettes rambled on about any number of extraneous issues. Why the judges would tolerate and reward this is beyond me.
No....it shows what happens with hard work and good ethics.
Well, it does encourage black people to “think white.”
But if there is such a thing as “thinking white” rather than “thinking human” it is non whites who are to blame for dropping the ball. The old idealist song “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” has been transmogrified into “I’m Gonna Be As Heavy As I Can Because I Deserve It, Now Heave, Brother!”
There is no white privilege, only accomplishment.
“...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.”
Since they didnt actually address the issue, the debate was NOT won on the argument but on affirmative action and political correctness. Another academic institution destroyed by the elimination of standards.
Certainly it does. 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.
The privilege is a derivative of being white, i.e. the inability to rely on verbal violence and chaos for a momentary win.
“Fuck the time!”
I believe I detect an ancestral flash of future President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
Kinda makes you go all weepy, don’t it!
About 50 years ago a moment of curiosity led me to attend the tryouts for my high school debate team. When the teacher told us we would be assigned to either the “Pro” or the “Con” side of the argument I asked, “What if we don’t believe in that position?”
The teacher replied, “That does not matter. We are here to teach debating skill. Whether or not you believe the premise to be true is irrelevant.” So I got up and walked out.
If these “community activists/rappers” want to demonstrate that they are the best collegiate debaters in the land, assign them to argue FOR the topic, “States Rights, as enumerated in the US Constitution, required that the South Secede from the Union”. (have a good electrician standing by - a lot of folks will be “blowing fuses”!)
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.
“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.