This is really, really, really bad. @HeatherEHeying @BretWeinsteinhttps://twitter.com/michaelmoreno2k/status/1188175155240947712 …
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
Proceed with extreme caution. "Debate" as a formal school activity is a very strange phenomenon. The fact of a position being sophistry is immaterial. And there are strong hints in the full recording that the positions being advanced by the prof are put forward as an exercise.
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
If that's what it is, then the professor is loosely playing the role of an opposing team, advancing arguments his students might face. He uses some terms that suggest that's what's going on. That said, the exercise feels way off target, but 'off target' isn't the same as bigoted.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein @HeatherEHeying
"Off target" or even "bigoted" seem sort of beside the point, except on an exceedingly tilted playing field — the arguments are *really weak.* Is that not enough, in the context of formal debate?
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
The arguments suck, and the student has no trouble showing that in real time. But if a debate-prof offers painfully lousy arguments as examples, and a student secretly records them and portrays them on the internet as the prof's perspective, where is a reasonable person to stand?
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This student quit the team — after, among other things, the prof suggested he was in no position to keep asking these questions
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