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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by Zak on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:21PM (#36926329)
This article is about competitive debate, which is no more for learning about the world than bicycle racing is for transportation. Aside from maintaining a calm attitude, those points are irrelevant to the goal of winning the competition.
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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by vacuity on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:33PM (#36926405)
I'm pretty sure parent recognizes that and is criticizing competitive debate as "debate".
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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by graeme on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:02PM (#36926583)
The difference is you actually move from point A to point B in a bicycle race, and retain the skills of doing so in non-race conditions.
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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by ang_cire on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:21AM (#36932101)
If you don't think you learn that from competitive debate, you don't know many debaters.

One of the biggest skills it teaches is argument-analysis, and you'd better believe that sticks around outside the debate round.

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Re:How critical theory is radicalizing high school debate by graeme on Sunday July 30, 2023 @08:02PM (#36937382)
Did you mean to reply to the person above me? My point was that is you are biking no matter how distorted it is from real world cycling you still train in movement.

Whereas if debate gets corrupted you don’t necessarily learn wider skills. Whereas you would if the debate remains convincing to people who aren’t debate judges.

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