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Sat Feb 13 18:34:49 +0000 2021

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

winning the TOC — PolitiTweet.org

Arturo Javier-Castellanos @ArturoJavCast

@ebruenig @OlufemiOTaiwo What do you see as the goal of debate then?

Posted Feb. 13, 2021 Hibernated

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

debate is a game, and it's a good game with all kinds of helpful habits of mind to impart. but it's not about persuasion. persuasion happens through relationships — PolitiTweet.org

Cole Wenger @DrollWenger

@ebruenig I think we teach debate wrong. It needs to be taught as a specific game with specific rules that has abso… https://t.co/anmb9oBSPT

Posted Feb. 13, 2021 Hibernated

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Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

but judges at that level aren't anything like ordinary people, and they're scoring points that would be virtually unintelligible to normal listeners. in debate, as in life, the truth is irrelevant & cannot save you. it's about navigating bullshit matrices of power and convention — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Swaine @edswaine

@ebruenig typically you have to persuade some people that you won in order to win

Posted Feb. 13, 2021 Hibernated

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