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This house believes that leaders of minority religions in Europe should strongly discourage their congregations from publicly displaying their faith
CUPD 2023 · 1 · 2023-02-24
This house believes that progressive social movements should primarily use class consciousness as a rallying mechanism, rather than focusing on racial identity.
CUPD 2023 · 5 · 2023-02-24
In arts and pop culture, a preference should be given to creating new characters for the representation of minorities (Black Panther, Tiana from the movie "Princess and the Frog", "Love, Simon") as opposed to modifying the existing character profiles (black Ariel, queer Velma Dinkley in the new "Scooby Doo" series, female James Bond).
Keskkoolide Eesti meistrivõistluste 22/23 II etapp EST · Round 4 · 2023-02-18
This house, as a parent from a minority group (for example, a racial or religious minority), would teach their child to be pessimistic over optimistic.
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Pessimism refers to a tendency to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen. Optimism refers to an attitude of hopefulness and confidence about the future or the success of something.

CABP Junior 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-02-11
This house would introduce racial quotas for healthcare professionals
CABP Junior 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-02-11
In art and popular culture, This house believes that creating new lead characters for minorities (eg Hancock, Black Panther) is better than recasting them in existing roles already played by other actors/communities (eg Ghostbusters, The Little Mermaid).
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ZUDC 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-02-03
This house believes that that writing POC protagonists (e.g. Devi in Never Have I Ever) with white love interests does more harm than good
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ZUDC 2023 · 3 · 2023-02-03
This House prefers that the LGBTQIA+ movement emphasizes the "matrix of oppression" as the main approach rather than the message of strong cohesion
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For the purpose of this debate, the "matrix of oppression" implies the system of inequality is built upon the intersection of multiple identity constructions such as gender, race, class, etc., creating differences even within one identity group. Minority groups focusing on such a concept tend to be more critical not only of the dominant social structure, but also of the internal power dynamics within the in-group.

KIDA BP National Championships 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-01-27
That, when teaching about social equality, schools should deprioritise education about the history of oppression minorities have faced and instead focus on the principles of equality, social outcomes today, and methods to improve these in the future
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In many countries, education around social inequality focuses on the history of oppression vulnerable groups have faced, for example, how women were granted the vote, how colonialism destroyed indigenous cultures, and how racial minorities were discriminated against by governments. For the purposes of this motion, the government would instead, for example, focus on teaching current census data to determine which groups are being oppressed, and teaching theory around how equality might be achieved in the future.

ASO 2023 · 4 · 2023-01-14
This house, as the BLM, would advocate for prison reform over prison abolition
UT MARA National Novice 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01
This house would ban authors creating minority characters who are unintelligent, superstitious or evil.
Fuhsing Debate Open 2023 · Novice Schools Finals · 2023-01-01
This house regrets the recent dominance of transgenerational trauma in films and media depicting immigrant families and families of colour (i.e., Encanto, Turning Red, Everything Everywhere All At Once)
UT MARA National Novice 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-01-01
This House Believes That (THBT) victims of hate crimes should report to an independent vigilante group of their minority community instead of reporting to the authorities of the state.
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A vigilante group is a group of people who work together to seek justice on their own, without being part of the official police or legal system. A hate crime is a criminal act directed at individuals belonging to minority groups or marginalized backgrounds, with the intent of harming them based on their appearance or origin (ex: ethnicity, religion, race, gender, disability, etc.)

Vietnam Middle School Debating Championship Season 2 - 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-01-01
In states where there was an agreed historical disenfranchisement of a particular group, This house would fund the rebuilding of minority communities through exclusive taxing of the majority.
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Olympia Invitational 2023 · 5 · 2023-01-01
This house supports strong government intervention to prevent gentrification
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Gentrification is a process when significant numbers of wealthier people move to an area traditionally inhabited by lower income and often minority individuals and businesses.

CUSID East Atlantic Championship 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01
In developing countries with a history of ethnic, racial and/or religious tensions, This house prefers a change of power from dominant political parties
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For the purposes of this debate, dominant political parties are ones that have won multiple elections and have been in power for a long time. We will assume power can be handed over in a fair election.

Madrid WUDC 2023 · 6 · 2022-12-28
This house supports privileged individuals disengaging from discussions which exclusively affect minority/underprivileged communities
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For a long time, Saudi Arabia has been seen as the leader of the Islamic world. However due to recent happenings, there has been rising criticism of the Saudia Arabian legitimacy. The new liberal laws of the current crown prince like allowing for pubs and casinos in the country is a testament of the claims western infiltration" in the Muslim world thus breeding dissent."

University of ILorin Debating Competition 2022 · 3 · 2022-12-14
This house opposes RSS' participation in the R20 Forum
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Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is a right-wing and ultra-nationalist religious organization based in India representing Hinduism, which has been accused of inciting violence against minority groups, namely Muslims. It is the leader of a large body of organizations with presence in all facets of the Indian society. The organization has confirmed their participation in the Religion of Twenty (R20) Forum, as a part of the larger G20 Forum in Bali, Indonesia.

Luzon IV 2022 · 4 · 2022-11-06
This house opposes this trend of happy endings in movies about minority communities
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Movies and show featuring the stories and plights of minorities and marginalised communities often have a happy ending, showing some degree of progress towards overcoming oppression

Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Round 1b · 2022-11-05
This house regrets the decline of Black Liberation Theology in African American activism
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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"."

USUDC 2022 · Quarterfinals · 2022-11-05