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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jun 2020

      I honestly think about 15% of America's problems (and 40% of England's problems) come from the role debate clubs play in the education system.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Jun 2020

      Thesis: debate club exacerbates polarization because it rewards motivated reasoning and skill at forensic argumentation at the expense of grounded knowledge. Discuss.

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        1. Jeff Hauser‏Verified account @jeffhauser 14 Jun 2020
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          Debate varies between American formats as well as across US, Canadian, and British parliamentary. So a single take is likely wrong. (US parliamentary (APDA) was the most evidence based of the major English language circuits)

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        1. Adamant Actual‏ @Adamant_Actual 14 Jun 2020
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          Resolved: This Take is actually good.

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        2. Crissie Brown  🏳️‍🌈‏ @ComiCrissieB 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @guldukakis @HeerJeet

          I came from to say exactly this....

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        1. Nicholas Copeland‏ @nick_copel 14 Jun 2020
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          more so because it prioritizes "winning" over advancing thought in the service of collective good. for some (lots of future lawyers), the pursuit of winning motivates thinking, but it twists it; there are better motives

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        1. Rhys Needham‏ @Rhys_Needham 14 Jun 2020
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          Exhibit One: Boris Johnson?

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        2. Tobias Harris‏ @observingjapan 14 Jun 2020
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          Tobias Harris Retweeted Helen Rosner

          Parliamentary/Oxbridge Union style also rewards rhetorical flourishes and "cleverness" at the expense of expertise. See thread by @hels -- who I knew a little on the APDA circuit - on this.https://twitter.com/hels/status/1268760756536987648?s=19 …

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          Helen RosnerVerified account @hels
          I’ve mentioned before on here that I was a college debater — primordial soup for opportunistic sophistry — where I learned how to win an argument. Not how to be right, but how to win. It’s sleight of hand, it’s rhetorical trickery. It’s tremendous fun, and horribly dangerous.
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        3. Corey Wallace  🇳🇿‏ @CoreyJWallace 14 Jun 2020
          Replying to @observingjapan @HeerJeet @hels

          It's always been interesting to me how this plays out at an interpersonal level with educated Americans. On the one hand, I think this training is very useful in that you can explain yourself well at the drop of a hat. I'm terrible at that.

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        2. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan 14 Jun 2020
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          is this why we don't even bother trying?

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