On: Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate

[onychomys]

My partner and I went 36-4 in our senior year* in policy debate because we continually argued that the federal government was inefficient and corrupt and we should instead just give block grants to the states. In the mid 1990s in Montana, that was a nearly unbeatable strategy. It's always been about finding the one argument that the judge will be unable to ignore instead of about the actual evidence you have for all the rest of it.

*we lost the state championship to a team from Hardin, MT, population about 4000 and guess where the state championship was held that year?

[philsnow → onychomys]

> In the mid 1990s in Montana, that was a nearly unbeatable strategy.

We won a lot because we knew the judges

> we lost [...] to a team from Hardin [...] and guess where the state championship was held that year?

We lost because the judges knew them