Kare 11’s Jana Shortal interviews听Marshall Steele, from Central High School,听and Sandy Bolton, from Roosevelt High School, about civil debate. Both students attended Augsburg’s Minnesota Urban Debate League summer camp, a program which provides resources and programming to support听competitive academic debate at Twin Cities high schools and middle schools.
How can emotion and civility co-exist? Shortal听asked. “Try to听understand听people’s points even听if there’s something you fundamentally disagree with,” Bolton said. “There are backgrounds that lead to people having opinions that are insensitive听but have听fundamental reasoning behind them that you have to understand in order to engage with them well.”
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