Affirmative Action Debate: Q & A, part 5 (12 of 14)

The motion: "It's time to end affirmative action"

Moderator: Robert Siegel
Speaking for the motion: John H. McWhorter, Terence J. Pell and Joseph C. Phillips
Speaking against the motion: Khin Mai Aung, Kimberlé Crenshaw and Tim Wise

IQ2US marks the launch of Oxford-style debating -- one motion, one moderator, three advocates for the motion, three against -- in New York City. Each evening begins at 6:00P with a complimentary cocktail period. As you enter the theater before the debate starts at 6:45P, you cast your vote for or against the evening's motion. Those results are displayed midway through the debate as each side makes its statements. After all six panelists speak, the audience has a chance to ask the speakers questions and vote again. The debate finishes with brief summations from the panelists, the votes are tallied and a winning side is declared.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• intelligence
• squared
• u.s.
• iq2
• debate
• affirmative
• action
• race
• gender
• equality
• sexism
• racism
• preference
• civil
• rights

[rgb404]

Jesus!!! Tim Wise is a Nuclear Bomb..You better have your Sh*t together with him! Kim and Kimberlé as well very knowledgeable.

[bellier]

you speak Kim!!!!

[GTBeauregard]

What a Brave New World when "All Created Equal" no longer means Equal Protection Under the Law. No sir. Once Civil Rights achieved that worthy goal, the goal posts had to be moved further afield. That statement now means all people "INHERENTLY have the same merit" and achieve at the same level. If anyone is achieving at a lower level, whites must be keeping them down. Amazingly, people by into this nonsense. No excuses for the under-achieving white fortunately, please keep it that way.

[GTBeauregard]

@elendinel Yes, the horror of mating, gross. Japan's birthrate is low for the same reason ours is - women choosing materialism over family.

[GTBeauregard]

@elendinel Japan is old because of xenophobia??????? Try birth rates. As if the only way to grow a population is through immigration. You do understand that by your solution of immigration for Japan's birthrates; Japanese will cease to exist.

[GTBeauregard]

@jackfire55 No no, evolution over thousands of years had effect below the neck only. Brains don't evolve; they really aren't that important for survival - well, tool making, that's about it; perhaps societal organization, altruism to group, child rearing behavior, - see? why would the brain evolve?

[GTBeauregard]

@sk8bow I thought we were talking about education.  Is affirmative action a tool to shape community values?

[derivativesarecool]

@bigball805 Einstein was a soft-spoken encyclopedia. Gates is a soft-spoken encyclopedia. And unfortunately, Jobs was also a soft-spoken, yet brilliant, encyclopedia. Sarah Palin, unfortunately, is an animated loud mouth, like Mr. Wise.

[kazakhstanmkj]

@rgb404 Tim Wise is a NUCLEAR BOMB. You better come correct! I love him.

[chubbatheBOSS]

LOL Joseph Phillips should stick with his dumb shit football players and actors' guild. Would he have been for slavery when people "wanted to do it?" ... US history very rarely is about setting up what is fair or what people "want to do." This loser keeps looking at his white master to his right to make sure he's saying the right thing and won't be lynched.

[bigball805]

@rgb404 The man is just a bit louder on the mic, not to say that he doesn't have his Shit together,

but the guy that truly comes across as intellectual is John McWhorter who unlike Tim he is not as animated; and therefore easily dismissed.

Loud people with a few stats seem smarter than soft spoken encyclopedias...