A competitive debater shares her experience on debating over the internet. In particular, touching on the topics of inability to enforce debate rules in order to do actually productive debate, the growing gap between winning a debate vs being factually correct and presents her case against modern way of debating where the primary goal is to win the debate i.e. convince onlookers rather than to find a common ground.
She shows how a public debater, focused on winning, looks from competitive perspective illustrating the case on public appearances of Ben Shapiro. She lists common tactics employed by such debaters in order to “win” the argument.
Chapters
- Gaywallet (they/it) ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) 6•2 years ago
Does anyone have a synopsis? I’m tempted to watch because there’s probably a decent amount of information in this video but 30m is a lot to devote to something I already agree with and likely already know what’s going to be discussed.
done
I think the best way to watch it is starting from the last chapter TLDW: short summary
- WiνΛlem OrtΛνíz ( @w_ortiz@beehaw.org ) 5•2 years ago
thanks for the effort !
- Chris Remington ( @remington@beehaw.org ) 5•2 years ago
Excellent! I stopped engaging in Internet debate a few decades ago. Couldn’t quite put into words why I stopped. But now, she has perfectly articulated why I did.