I am in high school and I have a debate tomorrow. It is going to be graded
and my topic is "why sports SHOULD NOT have equal weightage in academics".
I do not agree with this topic but I need to speak about this tomorrow.
any points which I can speak during the debate?

I'm in policy debate and really want to run an insane kritik out of spite, so I've been desperately trying to find some "white people are the source of all evil" evidence. I know it's out there, because I know my coach has judged rounds where the K alt is "kill all white people," but I need better starting off points than typing in "white people evil" in google scholar.

Anyways I don't actually want to kill all white people but it would be pretty funny to run that argument! Thanks y'all!

We're doing a debate on abortion, and my team is prochoice. We're fairly new to debate so any advice would be appreciated. The two reasons the other team told us they'd use were 1. It's murder and 2. There's other alternatives. Our reasons are the quality of life for the child and not letting others have a say over a body that's not their own.

I already did some research,but it would be of great help to get more ideas on proposing arguments I could use to tackle this motion .

A bill to enact a deposit on oil and natural gas companies

Hey guys, sorry if this is not the right place to post this but I'm sorta panicking right now. My debate is coming up really soon and the topic is "that only citizens and permanent residents should be allowed to own property in Australia (my country)".

I was thinking of doing something related to how this promotes equality, as only those who actually require housing will have better access to homes, instead of catering to rich foreign investors who will not step foot on the property. I also had a really fringe argument about how if foreign investors are forbidden from owning property in a rich, lucrative country like Australia, they will have to spend that money on properties from poorer countries who actually need the economic growth which once again promotes the idea of equality, but I don't know!!!! It just feels like all my ideas are so weak since I can't talk about the economy because the opposition could easily rebut by saying that foreign investors practically run our economy, so I have to go with weird moral arguments. If anyone could post any suggestions, I would be so grateful!!!

I am really freaked out by this so i wanted to ask somone. (english in not my first language so im sorry for my mistakes)

Today it happened for the first fime. I was laying on my couch when i plugged in my headphones and turned on my phone. When i did that i heard a noice from my headphones (like someone moving and making a sound from the microphone of the headphones) I checked if it was from me but it was not. I first thought that i played a voicerecording (it has happened before. When i plug in my headphones sometimes some random old voicerecording plays. But it is always mine, something that i have recorded long ago) So i waited to hear my voice and see what recording was playing this time. When i heard the voice i creeped out. It wasnt my voice. I got scared so i turned off my volume without listening to the voice. I went to the other room trying to calm down and i decided to turn on my volume so i can see if it is still playing. It was. There was some noice again. Then i actually heard the voice talking again. This is what i heard: "I wanna read something i wrote...(again some noice) My name is Jenny i dont wanna say my real name....Oh fck." She said her last words exactly when i closed all of my apps and it suddenly stopped. Her voice sounded tired, she had a weird accent. When she said" oh fuck" it sounded like something bad has happened, sometjing that shouldnt have happened. This is just what i felt when i heard her. Her voice was not familiar. She sounded young. Also i know that i wasnt from any of my apps. The apps that were open were: tiktok, spotify, and viber. I checked tiktok and spotify after, but there wasnt anything.

My question is : How and Why did I hear this random girl through my headphones? She was speqking in english which is NOT an official language in our country. She didnt have an accent like most of the people here, it was different. I did somw research but everything i saw, was that my headphones were connected to a radio station, but this was not from a radio station.Also should i be worried and should i tell my parents about this? Please, if you know anything tell me.

How are we going to approach this topic because there are so many things that the neg cannot really negate.

-War on Drugs condemned even by many Republicans(Gaetz, DeSantis, more) and has been widely condemned.

-War on Drugs was clearly racist

-Drug use did not stop, just shifted elsewhere(see "balloon effect")

How would I be able to argue that criminalization decreased drug use without admitting that criminalization is racist?

-I could rebut by saying that because of sentencing disparities, black people were arrested at very high rates and this ended up inflating the amount of arrests. But that admits that our side is racist because of sentencing disparities in the 70's and 80's that didn't get majorly fixed until 2010(Fair Sentencing Act).

I feel as if there aren't really any points you could make. I was also thinking of interpreting the motion very broadly to include poisons and to say that babies and teenagers can become addicts, but that contention doesn't feel right and I feel like there is not really an impact. It would just be back and forth and although it would increase addiction and other problems, the contention becomes too broad and it is essentially debating the interpretation of the motion instead of debating the statement brought on by the notion on whether illicit drug use is good or bad.

Any thoughts?

Hello, I am doing a debate for (online) high school (grade 12), and I am debating the 'for' side. The other two people are debating the 'against' side. The topic is: "Should minors (under 18 years old) be allowed to transition socially and/or physically?" I have done quite a bit of research for my side (I chose the 'for' side in this debate), and feel confident in my arguments thus far. I have also done some research on some arguments that the other side may use, however, I cannot find many, and those that I can find, I have arguments and points to refute them.

My fear is that I will go into my debate and they will use an argument that I had not found/thought of, and I will be unable to refute it. Does anyone have any advice on how to prep for my researchers arguments, and what to do should an argument come up that I have not prepared for? Thank you very much! :)

Hi, can someone recommend sources of transcripts from top debate competitions? Any style works. Much appreciate!!!

Hi, I am prop for THBT historically discriminated groups, for example African Americans, should abandon narratives of historical oppression in their campaign for equality and it would you greatly helpful if you could help me out with this motion.

So I have a project on why GMOs should be supported and why they are important and a classmate is doing one on why should they should be illegal. what arguments against GMOs am I likely to face and what should I say for my rebuttal.

Hello

So I have a debate (first) about how safe the COVID-19 vaccine is and I have a few arguments but not enough.

Do any of you maybe have a few reliable sources/links/studies?

Thank you very much

I am going to participate in a debate in which two sides argue whether the Qin or Han Dynasty were broadly better. The Qin Dynasty's only argument is that the Han would not be where they are if not for the Qin. How do I combat this argument?