Kritik

In policy debate (and less commonly in Lincoln–Douglas debates), a kritik (derived from German Kritik, meaning critique and traditionally pronounced as "critique", and often abbreviated K) is generally a type of argument that challenges a certain mindset, assumption, or discursive element that exists within the advocacy of the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory; it is often spelled in the normal English critique or is sometimes called a criticism, and takes the adjective form kritikal (meaning and pronounced as "critical").