re: Pay Attention Politards: THIS Is How You Win A Real Debate

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And how the frick do you win a debate on war powers by totally ignoring the concept and instead focusing on topics like "Why whitey keeping us down"

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I've explained this once before on this board. Probably should have gone in more detail. So, here it is, pay attention..

In the late 1970s Prof Shanahan, of U. Texas, came up with a strategy he called The Kritik. Not a misspelling.

The strategy was to ignore the topic and draw your opponent into the area where you had superior knowledge.

Think of it this way... if a monkey played an alligator in soccer the monkey would win. But if the alligator demanded that the game be played in a river, the alligator would win.

So, the kritik debater becomes expert in one area.. like race. He studies it for 2 months. If the topic is War Powers then all the race debater has to do is compile a lot of arguments in those 2 months why race is more important than War Powers.

The opponent has not spent 2 months compiling evidence why race is NOT more important than war powers so he loses if he is going to play on that ground.... (the river of the alligator).

The judges, who are hipsters, view themselves as Tabula Rasa. IE, I shall accept any argument that is not refuted. It's a farce. It's the lazy student's way to debate.

It is promulgated by grad students who run summer shops for HS debaters at major universities. They get paid to amuse HS kids. They don't care about logical thought. They simply want to do the least amount of research and concentrate that research on what issue they care the most about. War Powers does not interest them. Race does.