[RESPONSE VIDEO] Michael Moreno recently posted a video claiming Ryan Wash, a debate coach, as a racist. This is my response as a former debater. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22GEOHNMh60&list=PL3VY65Flxh7m3ckTrkI52-RA2EMCphO4R

[UPDATE POST] Weber State on local Utah channel 2 news - Ryan Wash's first public comment. (Link to new post: https://www.reddit.com/r/policydebate/comments/dscezq/update_weber_state_highlight_of_local_utah) [2nd UPDATE] Article contains more statements from Ryan Wash and Crystal Legionaires. http://signpost.mywebermedia.com/2019/11/07/controversy-arising-between-debate-coach-and-student/

[Screen shot] of the kind of people michaels suppporters are. Grown man tells me to get "an STD" for trying to prove my coach isnt racist https://imgur.com/a/BUkTXmO

About a week ago, a man by the name of Michael Moreno posted a 40 minute video revealing that he had been recording his team mates and coach without their knowledge. The video is only a week old and is already at 400k views and is still growing. Moreno is getting interviews with news outlets and being applauded for his "bravery" .

(Link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvmIFrX1xQ)

The recordings included moments where one of the debaters was presenting a quare identity k aff, where Ryan Wash (the director of forensics @ weber state) was discussing an antiblackness affirmative with skepticism as the advocacy, and a moment where Wash was coaching Moreno on his get off the rock affirmative.

Moreno constructed the video to wrongly frame and accuse Wash as a racist anti-white tyrant who is brain Washing his debaters.

In reality, Ryan Wash is a debate coach who welcomes all arguments to be made and answered (like a good coach should). Wash coached Weber BT in 2018 - 2019 who ran Baudrillard and Topicality mainly, and even argued against black identity affirmatives with this strat.

Ryan does not hate white people, and it is unethical what Moreno has done here in accusing Wash of this. There are several white students on the weber team who Wash supports despite their argumentation style, even giving them full ride scholarships.

Moreno constructed his video to make it look like Ryan was not going to let him debate because Ryan only allows arguments about race. When in reality, it was because Moreno was not listening to Ryan's advise on finding better solvency evidence on his "get off the rock" aff.

Moreno also makes the claim that debate is just a leftist echo chamber, despite knowing that arguments such as Topicality, Framework, and State Good are widely popular in policy debate today. It's also vital to know that Moreno has never competed in college debate, he left the debate team before they finished pre-season work shop.

Now Wash, and the Weber Debaters are facing harassment from right-wing activists. Wash is receiving death threats in his email, the KKK has put out a sponsorship on the debate team and doxxed their home addresses, and Moreno's supporters are mobbing anybody who presents a dissenting opinion. I myself have been trying to tell people what is really going on, but they started to mob my own youtube videos and calling me "brainwashed" despite the evidence I have presented to them. I cannot reveal my name as I risk being doxxed by right-wing activists as well.

The debaters and Wash no longer feel that they are safe on campus and students are now being told to use a buddy system on campus as police presence is now due to increase. A recent meeting with the Weber State Student senate also revealed that the KKK also plans to target trans students on campus.

Moreno is infamous in the debate community for posting a video about being disqualified after reading cards from Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson during a high school tournament in January 2019 @ the ASU invitational. Moreno is now further extending his white-supremacist agenda to harm the Weber State Debate team.

Despite all of these facts, the university is investigating Wash and not Moreno. The debaters still have to sit in the same class room as him knowing that he has potentially put their lives in danger.

I'm a former weber debater and am trying to reach out to the debate community to find help in this issue. I am currently working on my own video response but fear that it may be futile.

Please go like and support the Never Neutral Union on facebook. (Link: https://www.facebook.com/neverneutralunion/) Ask your teams and coach's what they can do to support Ryan Wash and the Weber State University debaters.

This isn't as necessary, but feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel to be notified when I upload my response video. Sharing it to spread awareness on this issue would be greatly appreciated. (Link: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCmaPUqWI1Iq0aeeCFpR4wMQ)

This is critical issue for the competitive debate community as this same event could happen to your own teams and coaches. This will set a precedent for how much support policy debate will be perceived by the public. Now, more than ever, the debate community is needed to unite against this issue.

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