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  • This House supports the Ten-Year Art Protocol.

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    For the purposes of this debate, The Ten-Year Art Protocol refers to a global cultural policy under which all registered artworks — including literature, film, visual art, music, and digital media — are systematically deleted, destroyed, or dereferenced ten years after their release. No official archives, institutional collections, or legal reproductions are permitted beyond that point.

    SMU Hammers 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-10

  • This house would go on the Jubilee video as opposed to the established left-leaning Youtube channel.

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    Jubilee is a YouTube channel with ~10 million subscribers and over 4 billion views. They create videos where people discuss politics, social issues, relationships, stereotypes, and identity. According to the founder, the company is politically neutral and hires producers and editors with a variety of viewpoints. They have a series called “Middle Ground,” where two opposing sides respond to prompts provided by Jubilee, debating on if they agree or disagree. Established left-leaning YouTube channels include creators like Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, and oliSUNvia which each have around 1–2 million subscribers and produce content in formats such as video essays, livestreams, interviews, and reaction videos. Their content includes topics like social justice, class inequality, LGBTQ+ rights, critiques of right-wing extremism, and other progressive social issues. You are a feminist with an online following of 100,000. You are invited to a video entitled: “Feminist vs. Antifeminist: Can they make middle ground?” by Jubilee. You are also given the offer to make a guest appearance on an established left-leaning YouTube channel.

    Ridge 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-09

  • This house prefers High art to low art as a tool for social change

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    High art refers to art forms that are traditionally considered refined, intellectually or morally elevating, and worthy of critical study or institutional preservation. It is often associated with elite taste, academic validation, and cultural prestige. Examples: paintings, literature, gallery art Low art refers to forms of artistic expression that are primarily designed for mass consumption, entertainment, and accessibility, rather than intellectual depth or institutional prestige. It is often characterized by its popular appeal, emotional immediacy, and informal or commercial context. Examples include Comic books, television shows, and street art

    Ridge 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-09

  • This House regrets the increasing shift from subcultural fashion (e.g., punk, goth, hip-hop) towards hyper-branded, status-driven aesthetics.

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    Historically, subcultures used fashion for rebellion, but modern trends focus on wealth signaling (e.g., luxury streetwear, logo-heavy fashion).

    29th ALSA English Competition High School Debate 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-05-07

  • This House regrets the glorification of the Big Four awards.

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    The Big Four awards refer to the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys, which are the big four major performing art and entertainment awards in the United States. These award shows are held annually, and the awards are given out in different categories to performances perceived as outstanding. These awards are often deemed as the most prestigious award granted to the different acts that receive them every year.

    29th ALSA English Competition High School Debate 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-05-07

  • This House regrets the glorification of the Big Four awards.

    Infoslide

    The Big Four awards refer to the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys, which are the big four major performing art and entertainment awards in the United States. These award shows are held annually, and the awards are given out in different categories to performances perceived as outstanding. These awards are often deemed as the most prestigious award granted to the different acts that receive them every year.

    29th ALSA English Competition High School Debate 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-05-07

  • This house opposes the popularity of the "green tea bitch" trope in media.

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    The "green tea bitch" trope refers to female characters who actively work hard to come across as innocent and kind, but are actually intelligent & calculating schemers. (i.e Rashta in the Remarried Empress, Jung Soomin in Marry My Husband, Alison in Pretty Little Liars, Regina George in Mean Girls, Georgia in Ginny and Georgia)

    The 2nd Indonesia Wom*n and Gender Minorities: Asian Parli. · Round 1 · 2025-05-03

  • This house prefers a world where consensus media was was the primary form of financial journalism, as opposed to diverse media

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    Consensus media refers to news organisations that were consumed on mass within communities - ie the 6 o’clock news on national television being consumed by a large majority of the population, there being a few “go to newspapers” and “traditional news platforms” being the main source of information for the majority of people. In contrast, diverse media refers to a norm where diverse sources and forms of media exist, and individuals often have differing primary preferences in media consumption.

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-05-02

  • A. This house supports the right to be forgotten

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    The right to be forgotten is the right to have data about a person be removed from Internet searches and other directories. It is distinct from the right to privacy, which constitutes information that is not known publicly, whereas the right to be forgotten involves revoking public access to information that was known publicly at a certain time.

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-05-02

  • This house prefers the Hunger Games to the Quid Game in Panem.

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    Panem is a nation with 12 districts, ruled by a dictator. The population of Panem is divided into these districts based on class hierarchy. For instance, District 1 has the wealthiest individuals, District 2 is comparatively less wealthy than District 1, and District 12 has the most underprivileged people. In Panem, there are two historically popular games. The first is the Hunger Games, where 25 participants from each district are chosen via voting and are left in a wild environment where their ability to survive is tested. The gamemasters design multiple threats to ensure that most participants die, and the last one remaining is given a seat in the dictator's court and an opportunity to move to District 1. The second is the Quid Game, a variation of the original Squid Games where 400 participants are randomly selected from the entire nation of Panem, all of whom play popular children's games. There are 10 games, to be played in increasing order of difficulty. Those who fail to complete these games are killed on the spot by the gamemasters. The wealthy can place bets on the game, and all the money collected from these bets is given to the survivors. If more than one person survives after all 10 games, the amount is divided equally among the survivors.

    Squid Games IV 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-02

  • This house believes that the Squid Games should adopt a limited round format

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    A limited game has limited number of rounds, and everyone who survives at the end of those rounds wins, and shares the reward. An unlimited game is one, where there are unlimited number of rounds, and players participate in the game until everyone but the winner is dead, and the winner gets the entire reward.

    Squid Games IV 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-05-02

  • C. This house believes that mainstream left-leaning political parties should embrace the dirtbag left (e.g. in campaigning, in the tone of political messaging, in discussions with opponents)

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    The dirtbag left is a style of left-wing political media that is often associated with online media and personalities. It abandons civility to convey a populist, anti-establishment and anti-capitalist message using vulgarity, irony, self-deprecation, and humour. Examples include: podcasts Chapo Trap House and Red Scare; the publications The Baffler and Current Affairs; and internet streamers like Hasan Piker and Vaush.

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-05-02

  • B. This house opposes the use of creative liberty in the retellings of true events in film & television

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    For the purposes of the debate, "the use of creative liberty" refers to the manipulation of factual accuracy in the retelling of a true event for the purposes of dramatic effect. These may include dramatisations of actual events (e.g. the dramatisation of the legal battle between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network) or the addition of outright factual or historical inaccuracies in the story (e.g. the portrayal of Scottish warrior William Wallace and his men wearing kilts in Braveheart, despite the kilt not yet having been invented at the time the film was set).

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-05-02

  • This house regrets the significant involvement of political outsiders (e.g. celebrities, billionaires, notable authors, Nobel prize winners).

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    Examples of "involvement in politics" include: running for election, leading campaigns & fundraisers, giving speeches at major rallies, & endorsing candidates.

    QUDL Nationals 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-26