Boston Colleges Hosted a Debate for All Students Except White Ones — but Whites Could Judge Them – Opinion

In Massachusetts, they’ve segregated intellectual competition.

Last semester, Boston College and Northeastern University co-hosted the American Parliamentary Debate Association’s “inaugural BIPOC tournament.”

The schools had a discussion open to everyone, except whites.

Campus Reform obtained a promotional email that stated it was an issue with identity.

Source:

This weekend’s APDA BIPOC Tournament bids will be open. All BIPOC debaters are eligible to participate in this tournament once per year. (For the purpose of this tournament BIPOC refers to anyone who is not white).

We’re living in a time of revolution. It seems that institutional leaders have suddenly deemed 1960s futile. Whereas previously, America had awakened to the fact that racial segregation was — in the words of Martin Luther King — “morally wrong and sinful,” we’re now perpetually informed the opposite is true.

Our new brand of virtue matches that of 80 years ago: You’re your race, not your individual self. This is true for many other types of identity.

A nation intended to be “indivisible” is being divided by looks:

American University Creates Black-Only Version of Required Course on ‘Anti-Blackness’

Major University Trains Its Students with Nonwhite and White Groups

A different university offers a racially segregated graduation

University of Michigan has two Cafes: one is for whites, and the other for everybody else

Harvard to Offer a Music Business Course for Free, Open To All Races Except White

NYU Student Group Petitions for Black-Only Housing So They ‘Can Feel Included’

Segregating debates is an issue of intellect. One might suggest that to exclude one specific race implies that it is either too clever or too dumb to deserve its inclusion. It’s an odd potential message crafted by a school.

The email stated that the original idea was to unify all non-whites. Is that what it is supposed to do? The answer, as stated, is “diversity”:

The tournament’s goal is to encourage affinity among non-white APDA debaters, and foster racial diversity within the league. Therefore, it will follow the motions format with topical issues relating to social justice and race.

Though white people weren’t allowed to join, the email made clear that “white debaters may bid to judge at this tournament (though they will be selected with lower priority, depending on the judging needs of the tournament).”

The fall will see the return of this debate. There’s a better than slight chance.

The American Parliamentary Debate Association — the nation’s “oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debate league” — is also leading the way where gender justice is concerned.

The APDA website is here:

[T]Gender and Sexuality Empowerment Initiative, a renamed initiative in 2021, was created to increase awareness of the issues faced by women and LGBTQ+ people in debate and to provide education and empowerment for all members of the APDA family. … Like most debating organizations…APDA continues to struggle with lower participation rates and less competitive success for non-cis-male individuals. GSEI has made strides towards understanding and alleviating these unequal outcomes…

America’s future direction: Wherever it is, we’re going there categorized by color.

-ALEX

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