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Remixing the conversation on race, power, and education.
🚨 Emergency Episode! 🚨 Life or Death in the Marketplace of Ideas
Too Dope Teachers and a Mic
2 months ago
🚨 Emergency Episode! 🚨 Life or Death in the Marketplace of Ideas
In this solo episode, Gerardo processes the shooting death of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk by exploring the hidden dangers of teaching debate the traditional way. Drawing on previously published writing that draws a line between traditional debate and the "own-the-libs" take-no-prisoners style of Kirk, Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson and others, as well as personal experience as a debate coach, he argues that when debate rewards domination over empathy, it doesn’t just distort classrooms—it fuels toxic politics and real-world violence.
Too Dope Teachers and a Mic
Remixing the conversation on race, power, and education.
