Re: your mail

["Anthony M. Penders" <apenders@seattleu.edu>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 1995 1532@novalink.com wrote:

> Listen, I'm going to get burned out debating some irrelevant "fun"
> topic (like recreation) than I am debating a timely and important
> topic that I can actually learn something from (like Latin America).
> Nothing is going to push me away from debate faster than having to
> debate a drugs 1ac in front of a judge who probably smokes weed.
> The same thing goes for the sex 1ac, the fact is that debate is for issues
> that matter, and for learning, not so that we can all run our pet vice
> as a 1A.  Its bad enough to have to debate crazy esoteric issues like
> deep ecology and eco-fem, but now I would have to debate stuff that
> sucks with no import.  Please reconsider the Latin America topic.

Welll, I think that there are a number of Latin America tpoics under which
you might be able to legalize....

2nd of all; esoteric?  Instead of going on a diatribe, I will suggest that
you gaze at the mounds of literature on the subjects you mention--I
contend that your marginilazation of the ideas and the authors and the
folks who have have had their lives affected by those ideas is unthinking
at best and chauvinistic at worst.

I suggest you check out that recreation topic again, very thoroughly.

As Lewill Shedd once yelled at me in a debate round ,"Free your mind!"

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