New York Post
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National Speech & Debate Association judges post "paradigms," which explain what they look for during a debate.
Debate judge Shubham Gupta’s paradigm reads, “If you are discussing immigrants in a round and describe the person as illegal,’ I will immediately stop the round, give you the loss with low speaks” — low speaker points — “give you a stern lecture,” says Gupta.
There are countless judges at debate tournaments across the country whose biased paradigms disqualify them from being impartial adjudicators of debate.
The debate I knew taught me to think and learn about issues that affected people different from me.
We’ve come a long way from the 2004 Democratic National Convention, when an obscure state senator said, “If there’s a child on the south side of Chicago who can’t read, that matters.
In 2019, I gave up on the NSDA and formed a new debate league, Incubate Debate.
Thousands of students have come together to debate, have fun and learn from each other.
To judge debates, we recruit elected officials, members of the armed forces, business executives, faith-based leaders and others.
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