• jiji@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is this about political campaign debates or like high school debate club competitions?

  • sulungskwa@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Isn’t it just a competition to see who can talk the fastest? I watched a video of it once and it seemed so dumb. It’s like the entire thing is just finding loopholes

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Pretty much.

      What I find most problematic is that this culture teaches younglings that there’s no such thing as truth. It’s just rhetorical trickery and gotchas.