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High School Debate- Scene Of Many Sexist Jokes
By: Yanick Lee

On Thursday December 11th , it was a day like no other. The audience was shouting, the judges were ready and at approximately 1:30 p.m. a kafuffle went down. A debate was taking place at Rockland District high school to determine whether or not Miller’s definition of modern tragedy is appropriate to the modern age. The affirmative side was comprised of Dawson, Justin and Ben while the negative side was made up of Stephanie, Rebecca and Stephanie. The debate was being judged by the honorable Seth, Colton and Logan(the mute). The judges issued their opening statements and the debate was engaged!

The affirmative side began with Dawson presenting his very weak argument in an exceptionally creepy and annoying voice. It was evident that no real research was done, the affirmative side was just going to wing it. The negative side came on strong but soon lost the whole audience. A comical remark was made by the affirmative sides Ben Cousins as he called the negative side on a fallacy that being “Appeal To Boredom”.

The debate went on and no real points were arising, besides sexist remarks being made by the affirmative side, in hopes of poisoning the negatives sides well. Although this did not do much, the audience seemed to enjoy it and it made the debate a bit more tolerable. At one point during the debate Dawson committed an appeal to popular belief as he stated that “God created us all”, which some individuals do not believe in, making his comment fallacious.

As the debate progressed and it was time for the free for all, Nik Leblond- a classmate, tried to save the debate by presenting a few valid points but none were really taken. Near the end of the debate, the affirmative side committed special pleading as they stated that they had no access to internet and this was why they were not prepared, this just being an excuse for a crappy debate.
When concluding remarks rolled around, the affirmative side had none and the negative side simply stated that Shakespearean tragedy was better. The overall victor was deemed to be the negative side although the debate was an overall poor one, aside from the comical fallacies and sexist remarks.