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   Alfie Kohn (alfiekohn@sciences.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 21:59:20 JST Alfie Kohn

   Kirk's smug "Watch me outdebate and own the libs" shtick - the antithesis of a genuine exchange of ideas - has prompted critical pieces on the subject: https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/.
   In 2018, Aisling McCrea argued that debate itself is problematic; it's not just corrupted by right-wing provocateurs: https://theoutline.com/post/6709/debate-is-stupid?zd=3&zi=3xbryajr

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   Auscandoc (auscandoc@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 17:54:31 JST Auscandoc

   The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/ “mistaking performance for discourse, spectacle for persuasion. Kirk wasn’t showing up to campuses to “talk with anyone who would talk to him.” He was showing up armed with a string of logical fallacies, nonsense talking points, and gotcha questions specifically designed to enrage inexperienced college students so he could generate viral social media clips of himself “owning the libs.”

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   kottke.org (kottke@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Sep-2025 09:07:23 JST kottke.org

   The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas. “The fundamental issue with “debate me bro” culture [is] that it creates a false equivalence between good-faith expertise and bad-faith trolling.” https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/the-debate-me-bro-grift-how-trolls-weaponized-the-marketplace-of-ideas/