RE: STOP THE MADNESS! (TD, CR, EMOTIONAL RESPONSES)

[FPIRIZAR@VPA.syr.edu]

Pat - 

I agree.  It is very sad.

- Frank



Date:          Wed, 9 Apr 1997 23:27:54 -0700
Reply-to:      papacat@sierra.net
From:          Pat Gehrke <papacat@sierra.net>
To:            Issues concerning CEDA Debate  <CEDA-L@cornell.edu>
Subject:       RE: STOP THE MADNESS! (TD, CR, EMOTIONAL RESPONSES)
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It really is sad to realize that the debate community may be in large 
agreement about the irrefutability of the need to expand civil rights, 
and yet the government and popular sentiment seem in larg
 part to be moving in the opposite direction.

It seems a particularly vexing problem. 

Why is it that narrow minded, ignorant, and bigoted people have so much 
influence over public policy? Why do views like T.D.'s carry so much 
weight in the national and global political arenas, as we
l as root themselves so deeply in American cultural norms?

Investigating these questions seems pretty important to me. The fact 
that they are unresolvable seems to make them particularly debatable. 

I really do think this issue needs more serious attention on our parts. 
Distraction into the international geopolitical spectacle seems like fun 
debate, but not nearly so meaningful or self-reflecti
e as spending the year thinking about the ways we construct and define 
each other. The civil rights topic area can provide us more meaningful 
and personal debate. Might it be painful and troublesome
 Let's hope so.

As for specific topic wordings, I personally like the Urban Policy 
topic, though I think it may not centralize some of the more important 
civil rights issues. 

Pat Gehrke
CSU Chico

ps- I cannot receive CEDA-L for some reason. Been reading NDT-L. 
Anything not cross-posted will miss me, sorry. I'm subscribed to both, 
but CEDA-L just doesn't come in on my rabbit ears, I guess.


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