How high school policy debate predicted the culture wars

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Central is a bad school, but the policy debate program is a rare bright spot, affording black students the opportunity to compete (and often win) against elite public and private schools on the national circuit.
48% : Enclosed within were reams of files on every imaginable topic: capitalism, arguments for and against U.S. hegemony, the internal politics of the Chinese Politburo, renewable energy, the case for de-growth, the philosophy of Michel Foucault.
39% : Students argued against race-based critiques on the grounds they exempted capitalism, the real root cause of society's ills.
30% : Last September, the ACLU followed suit, producing a bowdlerized version of a well-known Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote about abortion: "The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a [person's] life, to [their] well-being and dignity ...

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