At High School Debates, Watch What You Say

I don't know much about debating competitions, but I was floored when I saw this video when researching this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8

If this is real and not a parody, it seems like whatever scoring system they use incentivizes the wrong behavior even before you get into idealogical debates.

Yea, this story sadly highlights the difference between how the mainstream media reports stories and how a real reporter would approach the story. Radiolab/NPR is similarly captured, they spent an entire episode on this and expended very little time in thinking about how terrible this was for society, instead focused on celebrating bullies.

It truly is fascinating how much of modern education has been influenced by people who have their sights set firmly on teaching through coercion and fear.

I hate high school debate, it prepares you to talk and never listen and grow up to be Bari Weiss.