{"id":1944098,"date":"2023-06-05T03:14:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-academic-debate-became-a-propagandist-tool\/"},"modified":"2023-06-05T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:17:45","slug":"how-academic-debate-became-a-propagandist-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-academic-debate-became-a-propagandist-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic debate turned into propaganda."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-academic-debate-became-a-propagandist-tool%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1944098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>High School Debates: A Leftist Echo Chamber?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/judges-ruin-high-school-debate-tournaments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent essay<\/a> at The Free Press, James Fishback reports on the radical leftist bias that has taken over the judging of high school debates at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">national level<\/a>. Although he focuses on the developments of a particular extracurricular program, his account should worry everyone since it\u2019s illustrative of what\u2019s happening to the culture at large.<\/p>\n<p>After showcasing his credentials as a former nationally ranked debater and debate coach, Fishback gives a not-so-hypothetical situation of a sophomore studying a debate topic intensely for months, only to discover that one of her judges is a radical leftist who has explicitly declared, \u201cI am a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist. \u2026\u00a0I cannot check the revolutionary proletarian science at the door when I\u2019m judging. \u2026\u00a0I will no longer evaluate and thus never vote for rightest capitalist-imperialist positions\/arguments.\u201d Although this judge was among the most aggressive and outspoken in her partiality, Fishback mentions others with similar profiles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>No matter what side the sophomore must argue, she will need to make sure to do so with a leftist slant. And for anyone with an inkling of history, economics, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabbard-claims-of-dog-whistle-politics-in-youngkin-win-shows-dems-think-were-stupid-were-dogs\/\" title=\"Gabbard: Claims of 'Dog Whistle' Politics in Youngkin Win Shows Dems Think 'We're Stupid,' 'We're Dogs'\">basic common sense<\/a>, such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/by-understanding-human-nature-rian-johnsons-poker-face-is-undeniably-conservative\/\" title=\"By Understanding Human Nature, Rian Johnson\u2019s \u2018Poker Face\u2019 Is Undeniably Conservative\">leftist arguments<\/a> are notoriously weak and incoherent \u2014 not to mention immoral. Thus, rather than learning more facts about her issue to make a stronger case, the sophomore is unlearning those facts to make a weaker case to a prejudiced judge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Fishback notes, \u201cOnce students have been exposed to enough of these partisan paradigms, they internalize that point of view and adjust their arguments going forward.\u201d Over time, this practice of continually catering to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-academic-debate-became-a-propagandist-tool\/\" title=\"Academic debate turned into propaganda.\">leftist activists transforms young talented debaters<\/a> into committed ideologues and seasoned propagandists for the left. By extension, it transforms the whole culture of competitive debate into an absurd echo chamber where the very principles of a reasoned argument are replaced with mindless partisan signaling.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the habits and attitudes of these debaters have made their way onto college campuses. As with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/outgoing-nyc-mayor-bill-de-blasio-claims-his-big-sin-was-just-going-for-long-walks\/\" title=\"Outgoing NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio Claims His Big \u2018Sin\u2019 Was Just Going For Long Walks\">high school debate<\/a>, more and more colleges have become the inverse of what they were originally designed to be. What were once centers of academic scholarship, ideological tolerance, and intellectual discipline have degenerated into cesspools of partisanship, anti-intellectualism, and groupthink. <\/p>\n<p>All that said, in the interest of following the rules of an honest and proper debate, it\u2019s worth considering whether Fishback\u2019s report is actually representative of what\u2019s happening in national high school debating circuits. Therefore, I asked Josh H<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Fishback&#8217;s essay in The Free Press highlights the leftist bias in high school debate judging at the national level. While he focuses on one program, his account is indicative of the broader cultural trend and should concern all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":551,"featured_media":1944099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[8486,3896,4488],"class_list":["post-1944098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-academic","tag-debate","tag-propaganda"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1944098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1944098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1944098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1944098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1944098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}