Welcome to another episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast. I am so tired of people being told what they can and cannot say, what they should and should not say. Now, there are, of course, circumstances in which, you know, it's appropriate that someone says, you know, you work for me and therefore I don't want you to go on some

Twitter rant about Black Lives Matter or whatever, whatever it is. See, I'm even afraid to say that

because now someone will try to say that I spoke disparagingly of Black Lives Matter when, in fact,

I didn't. I just mentioned it. See, this is where we are.

Now, even worse is that there are debate teams.

And, you know, young people debate up through college they debate.

I'm sure even in law school there are debates.

We're supposed to have debates in politics.

But fewer and fewer people want to put

themselves on the line to debate. I wonder why that is. But in the world of debate now,

we have some really crazy stuff going on. Crazy. Like, you will fail this debate if you say, fill in the blank.

You're not going to believe what I am going to read to you, but I'm going to read it to you,

and that's coming up.

Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast.

Once in a while, I read a piece in the free press or the Wall Street Journal or somewhere, somebody's substack, and it really screams out at me that I need to share it.

And this is one of those.

This was in the free press, Barry Weiss's publication.

Here's the headline.

At high school debates, debate is no longer allowed.

I'll read that to you again. At high school debates, debate is no longer allowed.

I know you're scratching your head. You're going, I'm sorry, what?

At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear. Students who argue capitalism can reduce

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