racism today is based largely on steryotypes created by the victims of said racism

Refutations coming up. --------------------- Refutation --------------------- "thank you for joining this debate, hopefully it will turn out good, i'm new to this so yeah. .. " Welcome. Please don't find this offensive or anyhting, and hopefully the voters won't count off for this, but you seriously need to work on punctuation and grammer. Just for having the best can give 1 or 2 points. Just a tip. :D Now back to business. Refutation: "anyway, my opponent contends that stereotypes have nothing to do with current racism, and i obviously disagree. for example, a modern day stereotype of african americans is that they are criminals in some way, shape, or form. " Incorrect. You are just furthering my case. It is not a stereotype that gives EVERYONE the impression of a certain race being a certain characteristic but, as I said, the personal hatrid that one feels. As a matter of fact, most comedians make livings off of stereotypes by using them in stand-up bits. I don't believe anyone has assassinated a comdian because they were too "racist". Refutation: Source A - Wikipedia Population Statistic This proves absolutely nothing. Just because you showed a population of jails in the US, you are in no way proving how "racism today is based largely on steryotypes created by the victims of said racism". Refutation: "also, i agree that stereotypes do not fuel racism all on their own, but i never said they did. in fact, i stated that stereotypes created by the victims of today's racism caused the racism directed at them. " I would like to point out you still have not made ONE argument about the literal resolution giving me nothing to refute but start a case. As the CON, all I have to do is disprove your resolution which is "Racism today is based largely on stereotypes that are created by victims of racism". To be honest, the resolution makes no sense, so I interpreted what you meant as you didn't provide an argument in Round 1. Then to address your literal resolution, if I must. Why would a victim of racism CAUSE more racism? It's common sense, really. If one is subject to racism, take for example a black man, if he was discrimnated against, is he going to get racist and then do the same thing. More than likely not. He will more than likely raise awareness about it and fight it. Comment: "finally, i would like to mention that i literally meant the racism of today, as in from the end of the civil rights movement onward, so as not to confuse my opponent in any way. " I assumed that. ------------------ Contention 2: Racism cannot be created by victims of racism ------------------ Quite evidently, just by using common sense, one can deduce that one who has experienced racism will most obviously sympathize with anti-racism groups and help fight racism. As a matter of fact, there are plenty of examples. One extraordinary example is Harvey Milk. I understand this isn't literal racism but all the same really. Well Milk was discriminated against and instead of becoming a racist himself or creating stereotypes to fuel racism as my opponenet states in the reoslution, he fought it. So the question the voters need to take in consideration today is: Why would someone discriminated against, want to do same thing afterwards?