This just in: Debate no longer about argument and reasoning

Unbelieveable. Way to go, postmodern deconstructionists... now we have "performance debate" teams on college campuses.

I love how it's couched as giving "underprivileged" students a better shot at doing well, when it's really as racist as they claim the "traditional" debate teams to be. They're saying that these "underprivileged" students can't cut it at the usual levels, so let's find something they can do well—like, y'know, rap, or pretend to slap a teammate out of exasperation—and call that "debate" instead.

It's just more dumbing-down, and it really is worrisome.