MotionHouse

1500 motions

Data missing or incorrect? Contribute!

Type: Minority Communities ×

In post conflict states, This house believes that public housing should forcibly integrate people of different ethnicities and religions.
LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10
This house opposes linguistic nationalism
Infoslide

Linguistic nationalism is the belief that language is central to a nation's identity. This can be seen in the existence of national languages, historical programs of linguistic assimilation (eg. the French government making active efforts to eliminate Breton and Occitan language), and the differentiation of mutually intelligible languages on political grounds (splitting of Serbo-Croat into Serbian and Croatian, splitting of Hindustani into Urdu and Hindi)

Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08
This house believes that the act of recasting minority actors as existing characters in popular franchises has done more harm than good
Infoslide

Recently, there has been a trend of recasting characters of popular franchises. For example, in the series Bridgerton, Regé-Jean Page (a British- Zimbabwean) was casted as the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset. Similar occurrences have also happened, such as Zendaya (who is half African-American and half European) being casted as Mary Jane in the Spider-man franchise, Jonathan Majors (an African-American) as Kang the Conqueror, Halle Bailey (an African-American) as Ariel the Mermaid. On April 14th, a new Harry Potter series was announced, with Paapa Essiedu (a British-African) entering the franchise as Severus Snape.

UBC Summer HST 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-04
THR the establishment of independent religious schools in multi-religious societies
Infoslide

For the purposes of the debate, an "independent religious school" is a religious school owned and ran by members of the local religious community. Examples include traditional Muslim schools in India (madrassas), Malaysia (pondok schools) and Indonesia (pesantren), or the international seminary education system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church). Independent religious schools are distinct to formal education institutions where students may study theology as part of a larger national curriculum (e.g. the Islamic Theology subject in Malaysian secondary schools) or where students may earn an accredited academic qualification in theology (e.g. secular universities offering degrees in theology).

DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01
This house supports the use of 'political knifing' of the Visayas regions against the imperial Manila narrative
Infoslide

"Political knifing" can refer to the figurative use of damaging political tactics. Figuratively, it describes using political maneuvering, backstabbing, or sabotage to undermine opponents.

3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · High School Semifinals · 2025-10-25
This house believes that governments should offer significant financial support for minority residents to open businesses (e.g., grants, subsidized rents, or low-interest loans) in commercial ethnic districts (CEDs) as opposed to limiting outside businesses from moving into the district (e.g., zoning limits on chain stores or non-ethnic enterprises).
Infoslide

<span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, Arial;">Commercial ethnic districts (CED) refer to areas of a city where businesses are primarily owned and operated by a particular minority ethnic group, and where bussinesses largely revolve around that group's culture (e.g. restaurants serving ethnic cuisine, boutiques selling traditional attire, etc.). Prominent examples of CEDs include Chinatowns in London & San Fransisco, Little Tokyo in Los Angeles, and Little India in Singapore.</span><p><google-sheets-html-origin style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium;"></google-sheets-html-origin></p>

Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-24
This house regrets the decline of Black Liberation Theology in African American activism
Infoslide

James Cone argues that “the task of black theology is to analyze the nature of the gospel of Jesus Christ in the light of oppressed blacks so they will see the gospel as inseparable from their humiliated condition, and as bestowing on them the necessary power to break the chains of oppression.” Throughout the Black Freedom Struggle, African American activists have mobilized Black theology to inspire forms of political action, shape the institutional design of social movements, generate theories of political organizing, deploy political rhetoric, and orient critiques of American society. Black theology has historically animated various movements, including (most famously) the Abolitionist Movement and the Civil Rights Movement led by stalwarts like Pauli Murray, Maria Stewart, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X. As Taylor Branch writes, The civil rights movement fused the political promise of equal votes with the spiritual doctrine of equal souls.

Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-24
This house would implement ethnic federalism in post-conflict states with ethnic fragmentation
Infoslide

Ethnic federalism is a form of federal system in which the federated regional or state units are defined by ethnicity. Ethnic federal systems have been created in attempts to accommodate demands for ethnic autonomy and manage inter-ethnic tensions within a state. In ethnic federal systems, each ethnic region tends to enjoy high administrative freedom and control over policy.

Autumn Tournament 2025 · ラウンド4 · 2025-10-18
This house prefers a secularized portrayal of religious terrorist organizations as opposed to highlighting their religious identity
Davao Novice Cup 2025 · Novice Quarterfinals · 2025-10-18
This House believes that major entertainment studios should prioritize creating new diverse characters instead of modifying established characters to promote representation. This is a debate motion about whether entertainment companies should focus on creating original diverse characters rather than changing existing popular characters to increase representation of underrepresented groups.
Curitiba Week of British Parliamentary 2025 · Final Schools · 2025-10-17
This house, as parents who have moved to a new country, would prioritize assimilation into the new culture over the preservation of their traditional culture when raising children
HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11
This house would criminalize hate speech
HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · EFL Grand Finals · 2025-10-11
This house supports the use of COMPAS
Infoslide

COMPAS(Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions) is a computer program that helps judges make decisions, like whether someone should go to jail, get bail, or be closely watched. It uses a set of questions to look at things like a person’s age, past crimes, and social background. Then, it gives a score showing how likely it is that the person might commit another crime. This score is used as an important tool to help judges make their decisions.

HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-10-11
TH, as an Indigenous elder, Would actively discourage their community to enlist in the military.
Kontra-Korap Cup · Novice Finals · 2025-10-01
In western liberal democracies, This House Opposes governments prosecuting individuals for online hate speech
Infoslide

For the purposes of this debate, 'hate speech' is a public statement by which a person, or a group of people, is severely threatened, insulted, or degraded based on characteristics such as their skin colour, national or ethnic origin, religious belief, or political views. Some western liberal democracies (such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, Germany, and Denmark) have laws that make 'hate speech' a criminal offence. People whom the authorities believe have committed hate speech can be prosecuted for their actions (i.e., can be convicted of having committed a crime, and punished).

Dulwich Schools 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-09-28
This house opposes the rising trend of death celebration among the global left
Infoslide

Death celebration refers to the growing social media trend of collectively celebrating the passing of individuals who previously held political views or engaged in actions that may be viewed as socially regressive, bigoted or harmful to minority communities. Common examples include the social media reactions to the death of Hulk Hogan, FW De Klerk and, most recently, Charlie Kirk.

Cape Town Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-09-25
This house, as a minority writer, would depict their community’s struggles through the perspective of the direct victim rather than an observer
IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Octofinals · 2025-09-12
This house believes that it is in the best of the rural igorot communities to actively integrate into broader society
Baguio Detour 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-30
This house, as a second generation immigrant artist, would actively use their culture of their origin in their artworks as opposed to appealing to the mainstream culture.
India ABP Fundraiser 2025 · Quarter Final · 2025-08-30
This House prefers an electoral registration system that prioritizes mass inclusion over one that prioritizes document-based identity verification
Infoslide

The Election Commission of India is conducting a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, during which it has chosen to exclude Aadhaar and Voter ID (EPIC) as valid ID proofs. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee alleges that the ECI is acting under political influence to conduct an NRC-like exercise, potentially deleting genuine voters and bypassing state coordination.

K Pre-ABP Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-23