I’ve been thinking recently about three debates. In the first, which took place in January 2016, two Harvard students, Fanele Mashwama and Bo Seo, proposed that “the world’s poor would be justified in pursuing complete Marxist revolution”. In the second, in October of the same year, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump debated which of them should be the next president of the United States. In the third, author David McRaney discussed the shape of the planet on which we live with Mark Sargent, a man best known for his popular YouTube videos asserting that the Earth is flat.
我最近一直在思考三场辩论。第一场发生在2016年1月，两名哈佛学生法内尔·马什瓦马和徐博提出“世界上的穷人有理由追求彻底的马克思主义革命”。第二场发生在同年10月，希拉里•克林顿和唐纳德•特朗普就谁应该成为下一任美国总统展开辩论。在第三场辩论中，作家大卫•麦克拉尼与马克·萨金特讨论了我们所生活的地球的形状，萨金特最出名的是他在YouTube上的热门视频，他断言地球是平的。