Posted on 02/07/2019 11:58:24 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian
I debated three years in HS 62-64. When you showed up for the tournament you were told where you would be round 1 and whether you were pro or con on the proposition. Nationally, we all debated the same proposition all year long. Example: Should there be federal aid to education (dig it). After each round, we were given info for the next round. But the idea was you have to be ready to be pro or con.
‘How long before the speeches of Abraham Lincoln are banned?’
not soon enough for a certain cohort on this very forum...
Idiocracy wasn’t a movie, it was a documentary.
August 1862, Lincoln stated: “If I could save the union without freeing any slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.”
‘if slavery (a most horrid institution) were allowed to exist another twenty years it would have died.’
yes, of course; it sure does explain why eleven states took the extraordinary step of seceding from the union, bought by their ancestor’s blood, with several of those states directly citing slavery as the precipitating event in their Articles of Secession; because they were convinced it was going to die out within a generation...
Was reading an article not long ago about what has happened to interscholastic debate in recent years. There is no longer any pretense that citing sources and making logical arguments wins the day. That’s apparently discriminatory against teams where students come primarily from cultures that don’t put high value on reading and reasoning. Instead, they win points on things like “passion” and “articulateness.” It’s becoming nothing more than two teams of boastful rappers playing the Dozens, and the inner city schools always win.
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