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National Debate Championship winners
Posted on 7/19/14 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 7/19/14 at 1:58 pm
Towson State
This post was edited on 7/19/14 at 2:02 pm
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:08 pm to Zach
What in the actual frick did I just witness?
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:27 pm to Tigerlaff
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Walker making a move.
I remember reading something about this before. The response they showed in the clip is a new style of debating that is highly controversial in the debate community.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:30 pm to Tigerlaff
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Message Posted by Tigerlaff What in the actual frick did I just witness?
The lowering of the bar...that's what.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:32 pm to BeYou
I am no longer proud to be an american.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:38 pm to TigerFanatic99
Summary of what you watched
LINK
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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 “n*gga 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. “frick the time!” he yelled. His partner Campbell, who won the top speaker award at the National Debate Tournament two weeks later, had been unfairly targeted by the police at the debate venue just days before, and cited this experience as evidence for his case against the government’s treatment of poor African-Americans.
LINK
This post was edited on 7/19/14 at 3:44 pm
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:40 pm to Tigerlaff
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What in the actual frick
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:41 pm to TigerFanatic99
That simply can not be the open national debate championship.
What kinda national debate championship was it? I do not see harvard or yale competing in that kind of debate.
It was a subset of a very small number of school national championship I would guess.
What kinda national debate championship was it? I do not see harvard or yale competing in that kind of debate.
It was a subset of a very small number of school national championship I would guess.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:45 pm to Zach
What is this I don't even.....
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:46 pm to thetempleowl
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That simply can not be the open national debate championship.
What kinda national debate championship was it? I do not see harvard or yale competing in that kind of debate.
It was a subset of a very small number of school national championship I would guess
It was 1 out of the 2 major debate associations national championships. I would expect Harvard and Yale to be at the competition.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 3:46 pm to deltaland
I seem to stand corrected. It seems to be a debate with many different colleges.
I seriously have no idea what is going on here. I am curious as to wtf the judges were thinking...
I seriously have no idea what is going on here. I am curious as to wtf the judges were thinking...
Posted on 7/19/14 at 4:07 pm to thetempleowl
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I seriously have no idea what is going on here. I am curious as to wtf the judges were thinking...
It all started with tabula rasa in the 80s. Why use logic and reasoning? Logic is an artificial construct created by 'the man'. The judge comes into the round with a blank slate. He/she accepts any argument until it is refuted.
Taken to the extreme it would go like this:
Affirmative team: "My standard is simple. If I can overpower my female opponent and rape her within my 10 minute time limit then I win. If she has an orgasm the debate is over."
Negative team: "That's outrageous and I call for an immediate dismissal and his arrest."
Judge: "Well, Negative, I can't be judgmental about his argument because I am very open minded."
Posted on 7/19/14 at 4:22 pm to NHTIGER
Participants in the Dozens are required to exhibit mental acuity and proficiency with words. In his memoirs Die **** Die! (1969), H. Rap Brown writes that the children he grew up with employed the Dozens to kill time and stave off boredom, in the way that whites might play Scrabble. Brown asserts playing the game is a form of mental exercise. Sociologist Harry Lefever states that verbal skill and wit is just as valued among African Americans as physical strength: "Verbal facility is thus a criterion that is used to separate the men from the boys".[1]
Posted on 7/19/14 at 4:40 pm to LaFlyer
they be keeping it real ...
Posted on 7/19/14 at 4:44 pm to tiderider
They won the debate pretty much how its been done the last years.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 4:45 pm to Zach
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Towson State
Tell me Zach if your remember any of your post on the topic.
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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.
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Wrong. Don't use any. My big weakness is eye sight. Without contacts I'm blind as a bat. Also, when I drop something on the floor I always check around to see if there is anything else down there before I get up.
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My mom was in love with LW. Lucy does not allow me to watch it on PBS. I do a great IRL impression of LW: "Anda now ladies anda gentlemena...here isa our version of a popular tune for the younger people...by AC anda DC .. Hiway to Hella!!!"
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OK, Zach is gonna reveal another secret. Those Towson kids are from UDL... Urban Debate League. It started in the 1980s by Prof. Unger of Georgetown. He realized that debate coaches could get big time grant money by bringing the debate experience (white and male) to the inner city (black and female). He got charged with some type of crime and was forced to resign. But the idea caught on during the 90s. It's still going on. It's a money maker for white debate coaches. NADL The problem is that inner city kids are too stupid to debate in traditional argumentation styles. So, to win, they have to create new rules.
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No. Because there is no way of verifying truth of personal experience in a debate. I debated Viet Nam intervention policy while in HS. I was beating the shite out my opponent. Then he used the argument that VN was wrong because his dad died there two months ago. He started to weep. He won. After the debate he admitted to me that he way lying. His dad wasn't even in the military.
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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. It's a long read and kind of sad for those of you who believe argumentation should be logical. Here is a short illustration of what 'rule changing' is about for those who don't want to read the whole thing. Let's say I'm debating Rex. I have prepared all of my arguments in rhyming couplets. In my first speech I read the couplets proposing that all arguments in the round should be in rhyming couplets or they should be dismissed by the judge. I warn the judge than any counter arguments by Rex asserting that this is stupid must be dismissed if Rex's arguments are not in rhyming couplets.
Really Zach, Beating the Dead Horse for a 3rd time.
Pay Attention Politards: THIS Is How You Win A Real Debate
College debate enters the 'post racial' era
:beatdeadhorse:
Posted on 7/19/14 at 5:24 pm to Zach
So the National Debate Championship has turned into a rap/poetry battle? Interesting.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 5:26 pm to Socratics
If I was a moderator/judge, I'd have stopped the fricking debate and told those two dumbasses to debate the actual topic or get the frick off the stage.
Posted on 7/19/14 at 5:28 pm to Socratics
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Tell me Zach if your remember any of your post on the topic.
Yes.
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Beating the Dead Horse for a 3rd time.
My link is from yesterday. If the link regards something from a few weeks ago then amazingly enough, some people haven't seen it from the comments thus far.
Urban Debate League has been a money making scheme for 20 years.
Why does it put a bee in your bonnet?
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