February 27, 2012
God, I found some old debate files. Topics include:

interruptions:

sassmadness:

interruptions:

ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE

TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL

YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND REPRODUCED-THE PROLIFERATION OF IDENTITY BECOMES EITHER A NEUTRAL CLASSFICIATION WITH NO POLITICAL IMPACT OR IS RECONSTITUTED BY THE SYSTEM AS A NEW MARKET NICHE TO CONTROL

POLICY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AGRICULTURE ASSUME COMMODIFICATION AND THE DESIRABILITY OF MARKETS AS UNSTATED AXIOMS: ANY EFFORT TO MOVE TO SUSTAINABILITY AND STABILITY IS DOOMED UNLESS THE STARTING POINT IS THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE AGAINST CAPITAL.

Emphasis in original. I’ve really been missing the activity lately - I haven’t even been able to judge this year.

all i see when i read this is “i am a white dude.”

Pretty much. I should note for the record and before I look like more of a douchebag than I usually am that I don’t subscribe to the view backgrounding most of those file headings I was listing off (namely: SMASHING CAPITALISM IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY OTHER POLITICAL PRIORITIES REGARDLESS OF CONTEXT, ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION ARE EPIPHENOMENA OF CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION, WHY ARE YOU STILL TALKING ABOUT RACE/GENDER IT’S REALLY ABOUT CLASS COME ON). Those are just arguments that our debate team had on tap, if you will.

Debate is such a weird intellectual creature. I’m kind of glad I didn’t continue doing it after high school, even though I’m decently in contact with people that are on the UNR team. Weird kids, the lot of them.

  1. interruptions reblogged this from sterwood and added:
    It is a weird activity/culture/community, albeit partly GLORIOUSLY WEIRD and partly FUCKED-UP WEIRD. On the whole...
  2. sterwood reblogged this from interruptions and added:
    Debate is such a weird intellectual creature. I’m kind of glad I didn’t continue doing it after high school, even though...
  3. sassmadness reblogged this from heraclitorus and added:
    all i see when i read this is “i am a white dude.”
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