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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I guess my take is that if we're teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts like this, nobody should be surprised when Voldemort keeps rising
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Replying to @webdevMason @HeatherEHeying
Yes, and I suspect this is the real story we can't see from the outside. "Debate" is sure to be a mess at the moment for the same reason everything else is. We have just peered into a deranged debate class.
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The formalized practice of this derangement still shocks me, I guess. Dispatches from the grave with hands still clawing toward some expected sunlight.
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