This Twitter clip of the final round of the most prestigious American high-school debate competition is depressing beyond words.
What you are about to watch is the **final round** of the most prestigious national high school debate tournament. Team A proceeds to tell Team B that they **will not** be debating the assigned topic (benefits/costs of the IMF) because trans people are being genocided by MAGA… pic.twitter.com/osH0RHXmZI
— James Fishback (@j_fishback) October 30, 2023
If I had tried to design a parody of how “current thing progressivism” is an obstacle to all serious thought about every social, political, or human problem, I could not have come up with a more cruel caricature than the reality.