1) K (which is what it’s ~always called in the local lingo) is definitely not new. It’s old enough that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez would have been doing it if she had debated policy in high school. Sure, it’s gotten more prevalent over time, but if you walked into a debate round in 2009 and you couldn’t answer “your plan is bad because your entire argument is capitalist”, you were going to lose that round in front of nearly any judge. I’m willing to believe that social-location K is getting more popular/prevalent over time, though again, in 2009 critical-race Ks were already in the standard set of things you prepped for if you were in central Maryland. (NB: Likely this isn’t nationally representative; the nearby Baltimore urban debate league influenced this some, and the arrival of Daryl Burch as the coach for Howard County’s teams influenced it a lot. But HoCo traveled from Columbia to Wake Forest, so really it’s more like “there was already plenty of CRT K up and down the East Coast”.) If your narrative is that K is a reflection of woke, then no, serious K in CX debate goes at least as far back as the Clinton years. (To her credit, Maya does report this in her post.)
1) K (which is what it’s ~always called in the local lingo) is definitely not new. It’s old enough that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez would have been doing it if she had debated policy in high school. Sure, it’s gotten more prevalent over time, but if you walked into a debate round in 2009 and you couldn’t answer “your plan is bad because your entire argument is capitalist”, you were going to lose that round in front of nearly any judge. I’m willing to believe that social-location K is getting more popular/prevalent over time, though again, in 2009 critical-race Ks were already in the standard set of things you prepped for if you were in central Maryland. (NB: Likely this isn’t nationally representative; the nearby Baltimore urban debate league influenced this some, and the arrival of Daryl Burch as the coach for Howard County’s teams influenced it a lot. But HoCo traveled from Columbia to Wake Forest, so really it’s more like “there was already plenty of CRT K up and down the East Coast”.) If your narrative is that K is a reflection of woke, then no, serious K in CX debate goes at least as far back as the Clinton years. (To her credit, Maya does report this in her post.)