High School Debate Judges Have Their Own Opinions

They want an inclusive, non-hostile environment

Debate by Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay

A couple days ago, Bari Weiss’s Free Press published an article by James Fishback: “Part II: At High School Debates, Watch What You Say.” It follows an article published on May 25: “At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed.”

This, by the way, is the same Free Press behind the podcast series “The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling” that defended Rowling’s prerogative to ringlead transphobia.

I’m Disappointed in the ‘Witch Trials’

The first Free Press article on high school debates raised the question of—but didn’t seriously attempt to answer — who decides what’s intolerant. He suggests that, the more students feel free to say, the more tolerant they’ll become, as they “think and learn and care about issues that affected people different from [them].”