http://cedadebate.org/

It's starting to hit moot court competitions as well, at the undergraduate level at least but not the graduate level.

It's ridiculous and it only hurts these 'debaters' in the end. They are not effective communicators, period.

I think it was the University of Oklahoma debate team that recently did 'well' by adopting these "chimp out" techniques. For some reason administrators and judges award this sort of behaviour.

They can do what they want because.... well, white privelege.

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/arc...ge/360746/

Quote: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 “nigga 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. “**** the time!” he yelled.

Hello darkness my old friend.....

what the f*ck did I just listen to? how did they win? You can't even tell what they are saying in between stuttering and gasping for breath.

Eat a few more ding-dongs and ho-ho's to help out with the lack of breath, y'all.

Iggy the real MVP debate champ.

They're incoherent. Are they speaking in tongues?

Poor Towson, having these racist clowns representing the school.

It's sad for anybody that likes debate or thinks that it is valuable. It's being overrun by the pseudo intellectuals that are drenched in white guilt.

And you have African immigrant kids scoring perfect on the ACT SAT, go figure.

is the point to talk as fast as you can?

(07-17-2015 12:12 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  And you have African immigrant kids scoring perfect on the ACT SAT, go figure.

Actually, it isn't a surprise. Think of it this way.

An immigrant chooses to migrate to a new country. People who have the capacity to migrate are more likely to be at the upper end of the intellectual scale within their country. The poorest, on the other hand, likely lack the economic wherewithal or skills necessary to obtain a visa.

The father is a MD and the mother NP. And they probably encouraged (expected) her to do well.

Silly me thinking debate was about persuasion and logic and facts and not sounding like an auctioneer on caffeine.

(07-17-2015 12:43 PM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(07-17-2015 12:12 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  And you have African immigrant kids scoring perfect on the ACT SAT, go figure.

The father is there

Fify. This is the biggest difference.

I'm confused. How was gibberish like that translated, and how bad was the team that lost?

Also, where do niggas come into the conversation about war powers?

(07-17-2015 11:23 AM)blunderbuss Wrote:  http://cedadebate.org/

Wha? That was laughable. I can only imagine how bad the other team was. Whoooowhhheee. LOL

...and when somebody had the nerve to challenge this nonsense here's what this guilty, white leftist had to say.

(07-17-2015 02:35 PM)blunderbuss Wrote:  ...and when somebody had the nerve to challenge this nonsense here's what this guilty, white leftist had to say.

Holy sh*t, it's getting weird.