I get regular invites to debate on various platforms. I always say no.

Because debate is an imperialist capitalist white supremacist cis heteropatriarchal technique that transforms a potential exchange of knowledge into a tool of exclusion & oppression.

My standard reply:

Also applies to the presidential debates.

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I must decline given that the adversarial structure of debates is inimical to the kind of reparative work around which my academic practice is based and....

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...and which requires slow, immersive and contemplative work rather than a rhetorical spectacle where ‘winning’ is the goal and 'dominance' the prize.

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