Monday, September 22, 2025

The students who debated with Charlie Kirk: ‘His goal was to verbally defeat us’

"Charlie turned myriad opportunities for meaningful dialogic transactions rooted in civility and turned them into confrontational interactions by amplifying binaries in his argumentative structure," Woods wrote in an email. "What we know is that there is a spectrum of ideologies and worldviews, not just two: Charlie's and whoever is on the other side of the microphone." 

 Hasan Piker, the popular leftist Twitch streamer who was scheduled to debate with Charlie Kirk later this month, wrote in a guest essay published in the New York Times that his would-be opponent was an "expert" at "[taking] advantage of people's resentments and [redirecting] them toward vulnerable communities".

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/sep/20/charlie-kirk-debate-style


 

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