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  • This house believes that black civil rights groups should comdemn contemporary hip hop

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    Hip Hop as an art form originated from African American communities, who used hip hop as a way to express dissent against state brutality. Recently contemporary hip hop has involved songs about lavish lifestyles, relationships and substantially involves white origin hip hop artists.

    21st People Speak · Open Quarterfinals · 2024-02-03

  • This house believes that black civil rights groups should condemn contemporary hip hop

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    Hip Hop as an art form originated from African American communities, who used hip hop as a way to express dissent against state brutality. Recently contemporary hip hop has involved songs about lavish lifestyles, relationships and substantially involves white origin hip hop artists.

    21st People Speak · Novice Prefinals · 2024-02-03

  • In multi-ethnic societies, This house supports the Ethnic Integration Policy

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    Singapore implemented the Ethnic Integration Policy with the objective of promoting racial integration and harmony in public housing. The policy established ethnic quotas for public housing blocks with a proportion of flats in each neighborhood allocated to Malayese, Chinese, Indians and other minority groups. Owners were free to buy and sell flats to any race as long as racial limits of neighborhood were maintained.

    The 8th CBS Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-01-20

  • This house regrets the critique of 1990's and 2000's media for not meeting current social justice standards

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    Info Slide: There is a trend of critiquing media from the 1990s and 2000s for not displaying modern conceptions of social justice. For example, critiquing the feminism or casting diversity in Gilmore Girls or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or critiquing the politics of Harry Potter.

    Sondhis National Debating Championship 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-01-19

  • This house regrets the use of identity-based self-deprecating humour by minority entertainers in popular culture (e.g.writer/actor Mindy Kaling depicting South-Asian women on screen as often being ashamed of their own ethnic features and heritage in romantic relationships for comedic punch-lines, comedian Trevor Noah often using self-deprecating humour to discuss his background as a Black child in apartheid-era South Africa, etc.)

    Western Canada BP Champs · Round 4 · 2024-01-13

  • This house would redefine the criterion for excessive force in the US to include the benefit of hindsight

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    In police brutality cases in the USA, the question the juries are asked to answer is whether they think a police officer was justified in using excessive force given his perspective at the time and without the benefit of hindsight. (e.g. whether the individual had a gun or not is immaterial and the only thing that matters is if the officer acted reasonably) This means that only evidence that is admissible and shown to the jury is evidence pertaining to the facts available to the police officer while using excessive force. Academic research has shown that when using this criterion, juries consistently conclude that officers harming or killing black individuals acted reasonably in almost all circumstances.

    Vitark 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-01-01

  • This house, as the Ballroom community, would welcome individuals with no Ballroom background to partake in traditionally Ballroom-exclusive acts

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    A drag queen is a person, often a man, who uses clothing and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. In modern times, drag queens are associated with gay men and gay culture, and pageants where drag queens compete against each other are held. The Ballroom community is a African-American / Latino drag culture that emerged in opposition to racism experienced in established drag queen pageant circuits. In order to participate in a "ballroom", participants will compete in a "ball" arranged by the community across different categories. Ballroom is characterized by participants being split into groups called "drag families", where the leader ("drag mother") teaches the members ("drag daughter") skills necessary to win in drag competitions. Recently, the Ballroom community has become popular due to the popularization on TV, and the community has been very vocal about non-Ballroom individuals partaking in those acts, exclaiming that non-Ballroom individuals doing those acts have committed grave cultural appropriation, etc.

    Asian Bridge 2024 · Quarter Final · 2024-01-01

  • This house, as you, would quit your job at your local community paper and take the job at the region wide newspaper.

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    You are a Black journalist who works for a city wide community newspaper that creates stories about the Black community, with a large amount of readers. You have found success through your work in this newspaper, recognized as a figure that helps empower Black individuals, and you are  the top journalist, meaning all of your stories are featured on the newspaper and you have the  authority to write about whatever you want at your current paper. The biggest newspaper in your state, who has an audience that is 5 times your current newspaper, which is predominately White  and houses many journalists, offers you a job to write for their paper exclusively. Although the pay  is higher than your current salary, you will start at the bottom as a junior journalist, and must climb the ranks to become a top journalist

    Asian Bridge 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-01-01

  • This house prefers that the LGBTQIA+ movement emphasizes differentiating individuals (e.g. differences of being black gay person and a white gay person) within one minority group as the main approach rather than the message of strong cohesion

    Asian Bridge 2024 · Quarter Final · 2024-01-01

  • This house, as the Catholic church, S implementing the Tory proposal

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    The Canadian province of Ontario provides public funding to both secular and Catholic schools from Kindergarten to Grade 12. In 2007, then-Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory proposed also funding K-12 schools for other large religious minorities.

    NA Spar Pre-WUDC 2023 · ESL Finals · 2023-12-16

  • This house, as the Catholic church, S implementing the Tory proposal

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    The Canadian province of Ontario provides public funding to both secular and Catholic schools from Kindergarten to Grade 12. In 2007, then-Progressive Conservative party leader John Tory proposed also funding K-12 schools for other large religious minorities.

    NA Spar Pre-WUDC 2023 · Novice Finals · 2023-12-16