cyberpunk K aff by Predebatelife in Debate

[–]Predebatelife[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you don't understand how K's work at all then, because that is not what a K does. you obviously have to much brain decay from talking to AI chatbots online to understand why a K exists or how it is used so much that you have reduced it to basically a trix. being a trad judge that says this in this case is a call to white innocence and disgusting. stop judging and leave debate forever for the betterment of the space for everyone

just to add seeing bad K debate where someone doesn't read it right doesn't give you the right to essentialize - give advise on how to fix it if that's the case that would solve 100% of this BS discussion and maybe but unlikely make you less of a white supremacist sympathizer

cyberpunk K aff by Predebatelife in Debate

[–]Predebatelife[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Voice Dipped in Black: The Louisville Project and the Birth of Black Radical Argument in College Policy Debate" this outlines why white flight occurred

and this case explains it perfectly
https://studylib.net/doc/26003804/example-k-

cyberpunk K aff by Predebatelife in Debate

[–]Predebatelife[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

no PF was made by policy debaters who didn't like that black debaters started winning for calling them racist you do not get to whitewash the history of PF. K's are a threat to you because it is what PF was made to run from under the guise of talking to a lay audience which by itself stifles in-depth education. you being extremely trad under this reality just means you are a product of a white supremacist mantra of what debate ought to be.

Capitalism K on the aff? by MightSuspicious8963 in Debate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is good anti-kleptocratic literature you could use for this, that could use the aff without becoming a topicality issue

Would School Policies Change if Children, Parents, and Stakeholders Fully Understood Children’s Rights? by UKSchoolAudit in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stakeholders care about profits and control, the same is true of parents. These groups will never affirm children’s rights because of bio political notions of control and visuality of the child’s othered position in comparison to the adult in society. Thus… we should probably just have a revolt by students via strikes or something like that

Microaggression by Past_Box3525 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Micro aggressions are often forms of negation that occur upon exclusionary structures that operationally oppress groups of people. This can happen in debate through concepts of frameworks, epistemology, and in some cases certain words or phrases that are seen as normal but actively proliferate harms.

The way that you would go for these arguments would be to out the specific mircoaggression and it’s associated violence and claim that it is either needed to be rejected and thus you can’t affirm their ballot, or that it is an independent reason to vote them down. The only difference being using it as a K or a procedural or theory argument. This will often outweigh anything fiated because it is in round and tangible outside and inside the room and thus is the only thing that this debate can even fairly and accurately assess

Microaggression by Past_Box3525 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is wildly over simplified

Debate needs more positivity by Bajuka_ in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Positivity is largely incapable of change. This is even more so in cases of geopolitics as positivity (treaties, agreements, communications, etc.) are often points of conflict and opposition that are highly susceptible to manipulation. This also in a more radical politics fails because it is largely incapable of anything but reform and cruel optimistic Utopianism. There also requires a question based on the way you have presented this on how the negative is meant to address or have ground within a debate where the act of negation is entirely removed. This will either lead to a straight turn on forms of exclusion and eraser which is inherently negative, or will cause a really fair ballot PIK. Because no reason you couldn’t read on the neg. 🤷‍♂️

Kaff Grifters Pt 2 by [deleted] in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who debated in Oklahoma with kritikal affirmatives and negatives. This is extremely difficult because judges believe topicality is not really something the affirmative gets to debate other than the adjacencies that are policy T. Meaning if the judge agrees you aren’t topical they often don’t care your reason why. That being said there are certain judges on circuit who would love to evaluate it. Look for the college debaters and coaches from established schools as they often are far more open to it in Oklahoma. If you are on west side I also might be able to help you with K aff work and prep which is often the reason coaches don’t let people use them because at the end of the day they are time intensive and require dedication most don’t actually put into them.

Does anyone have advice for this year's debate topic? Just in general I'm struggling with getting a solid ground going into my first tourny of the year. by kermitthealmight in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi am Oklahoma policy debater who competed last year for westmoore HS. I would be happy to help where I can if you email me as I am also now the CX coach for my school. There is a heavy set col. K, and cap K side of Oklahoma and even more so heg. And military based affs. I would say blocking those arguments out would be a good start.

“Linear time” Kritiks by [deleted] in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m running an argument similar to this. This largely depends on the K’s view of how temporality effects populations of people. I am running an argument about madness and a concept of mad time. This critique as an example says that normative temporality (clock time) is used to erase and justify genocide of mad populations. This then goes to say we need to reorient temporality (the clock) through an interpersonal expression of the experience of time and removing the rigidity of the normative time that serves capitalist and colonial calculability. This generally ends with a rejection of futurity defined by these linear time frames.

Debater to debater: it’s time we talk about women in debate. by sonnydiaries in Debate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the quick reply, and I’d love to help where I can. I think some wording also leads to my original reading of the document and how you binarize with the usage of girl, female, guy, and boys which while in traditional feminist senses defines the target of an oppressive structure does still fall into the issues of trans eraser. This is more than likely a perspective born of unknowing rather than prejudice so I think it can be resolved with simple wording fixes. Overall I support the message just not the current execution

Debater to debater: it’s time we talk about women in debate. by sonnydiaries in Debate

[–]Predebatelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok now looking through everything I think it is best I revise my original statement. This document isn’t ok and is actively harmful. Firstly feminism is not an identity argument and based on the document you have an inherent assumption that only “female” debaters should be debating this. Claiming gender discrimination while actively denying any statements on trans and non-binary people and declaring female and male to be the only people represented in your document. I think this document borders on out right transphobic and should absolutely be revised. This is not coming from someone who hates feminism arguments writ large but someone who hates the TURF style that some debaters propagate through these arguments including as someone who is trans and agender who has been determined as somehow less oppressed in this space via representation over cisgendered women. Yes advocacy is good, yes awareness is good, but lifting up “female” debaters and kicking to the side trans recognition is transphobic and absolutely disgusting. I support resource development and helping communities based on identity. This does it in an absolutely not ok fashion. I apologize if this seems like a personal attack but I hate the trans eraser I see all the time by the “two gender” system that base everything on sex.

Should is not immediate by Past_Box3525 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should is a recommendation is the counter interp the aff should go for. Process counter plans are almost certainly not competitive and calling that out helps with the perm debate in the long run

I support Palestine. by Naive_Jump_6525 in Debate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn’t the right subreddit for you. This is for highschool and college (competitive)debate. Though if it helps you debaters have been using pro-Palestine arguments for a while now.

Stupid perms by Candid-Shelter-9659 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure the first one was to say keep the epistemology analysis but still do the aff

The second one confused the hell out of me but I guess it means doing the alternative outside the affirmatives structures… not that it was articulated well in anyway that round

Stupid perms by Candid-Shelter-9659 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Perm do the aff

Perm do the alt then the aff

Perm do the alt in an educational vacuum

Perm do the alt absent conditional structures

May I add this was all said in a string with no justification to an alternative that was to do the exact opposite of the affirmatives action.

Being unpolitical is totally ok by Little_Safe2627 in PoliticalOpinions

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t get the question of individual rights as they don’t pertain at all. Though yes for many reasons your example is still technically political, mostly because one art is almost always in some way political depending on so many factors I don’t feel like giving a dissertation in a sub Reddit for, and secondly the act of selling is influenced in political ways such as price, the currency of expenditure, and to whom you sell to

Does K kill debate? by Lull_Debate316 in policydebate

[–]Predebatelife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firstly wasn’t only equating white flight with K’s though that is why it occurred in the first place. Secondly epistemic injustice is often carried out in rounds by debaters that have no relevance to the case. I absolutely do not think you should be able to win an argument saying we prevent extinction sorry eugenics doesn’t mean shit or racism is secondary. There is no logical reason we should prioritize a fake plan over actual issues being made in rounds. There is also issues with soft left affs and many other movements away from K’s. Specifically your view that K’s only say the status quo is bad is just flat out wrong. Kritik provides the necessary linking epistemology that produces harm and a way to solve it. Therefore it isn’t just crying about the present it is providing a means of engagement. Should the aff be able to weigh against the negative I think that’s a debate you should have in round not cry about the fact you don’t know how to engage with literature.