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  • This house supports the illegal removal of statues of popular historical figures by social justice movements who consider them to be offensive (e.g statues of Winston Churchill in the UK, of Sukarno in Indonesia, etc)

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    Edward Colston was a 17th century slave trader who donated lots of money to charity. Due to his donations he became a popular historical figure and a statue was made of him. However, due to his association with the slave trade, his statue was torn down in 2020 by supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement.

    Suzhou Debate Open · Open Quarters · 2020-07-04

  • This house believe that Western countries should impose sanctions on Japan until she publicly apologizes and pays reparations for the use of comfort women during World War II.

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    During the first and second world wars, the Japanese army forced women from the occupied territories to serve as sex slaves. These women in history are called comfort women. According to estimates, there were from 20,000 to 400,000 exact information is still being investigated. Mostly they were girls from China, Korea and the Philippines. According to eyewitnesses and the women themselves, they had to serve up to 35-40 men a day. this year, several South Korean women petitioned the US Congress demanding a public apology from Japan and asking for help in the process.

    New Power Cup 2020 · Open Semis · 2020-06-06

  • This house deplores the modern idealization of social movement leaders as respectable peace moderators eg Nelson Mandela the Dalai Lama Rosa Parks

    Torneo Express de Debate 6.0 · 5 · 2020-05-23

  • This house as the WWE would recognize the achievements of Chris Benoit and induct him into the Hall of Fame.

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    Chris Benoit is one of the best in-ring wrestlers to have ever existed. He had an outstandingly successful career with the WWE (winner of 22 championships) and was considered a model pro for wrestlers until he committed a double murder-suicide in 2007 killing his wife and son along with himself.(No motive has clearly been established but what is undisputed is that thanks to the grind WWE put him through (chair shots to the head risky head-first dives etc) his brain had advanced CTE (A disease that impairs thinking and causes behavioral and mood problems- commonly seen among athletes from contact sports like wrestling boxing rugby American football) with some terming it to resemble 'the brain of an 80 year old with Alzheimer's'.By all accounts Benoit had not demonstrated any such violent tendencies prior to performing the stunts that led to the CTE. Till date the WWE refuses to acknowledge Chris Benoit for the career he had denies the records he holds and cuts out any footage of his matches from their extensive archived footage. Pro Wrestling continues to be one of the most occupationally hazardous professions out there and in recent years the WWE has taken steps like the banning of hair shots to the head to avoid concussions.For the purpose of this debate the WWE Hall of Fame is a list of individuals to which the WWE inducts peple with the most accomplishments in the WWE either as wrestlers trainers managers commentators or announcers to recognize and celebrate their careers.

    VIT Debate Tournament 2020 · 2 · 2020-05-17

  • You are a 16th century english Catholic bishop. Henry VIII has established the Anglican Church in opposition to the Catholic Church. You have been invited by the King to join his church as Bishop. That you should join the Anglican Church.

    Jurassic IV 2020 · Open Final · 2020-05-02

  • This house would require all history textbooks used in compulsory education to be written and edited by historians who are from countries other than the country in which those textbooks are distributed (e.g. Argentinian historians can write history textbooks that are distributed in the US but not in Argentina etc.)

    JUDC Online 2020 · 1 · 2020-04-25

  • This house prefers a world where the research writing and teaching of history focuses on studying the lives of ordinary people as opposed to that of important leaders of society

    Oldham Cup 2020 National Team Category · Open Final · 2020-04-10

  • This house believes countries with a strong and prolonged presence of drug trafficking groups should openly acknowledge this fact as part of their national history.

    Campeonato de debate Libre e Independiente de Guayaquil 2020 · 8 · 2020-03-09

  • This house being the Vatican would actively support the search for the historical Jesus.

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    The search for the historical Jesus consists of a series of academic efforts to try to build a factual version of Jesus of Nazareth. this seeks to gather evidence as if it were a biography to present a historical account of Jesus and that is far from the divine or religious visions that generally exist about him in biblical texts.

    Campeonato de debate Libre e Independiente de Guayaquil 2020 · 3 · 2020-03-09

  • This house (the Left) Regrets the rejection of the violent components of collective historical movements

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    Certain parts of historically significant movements have systematically made invisible the violent part of their movements in order to preach the concept of non-violence and/ or exert an idea of having received their emancipation in the ‘cleanest’ way possible. Instances of this have been seen in the continuous rebranding of Stonewall (a riot started by Trans Women in North America which later blossomed into the first collective action for LGBT+ rights) as being anything but a riot and the Indian freedom struggle downplaying the effective contribution of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s violent struggle.

    8th Justice V. M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate · Open Quarters · 2020-02-07

  • This house believes that that the Congress ministries should not have resigned their posts in 1939

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    In the year 1939 Viceroy Lord Linlithgow declared that India was at war with Germany unilaterally. The Congress ministries under Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru issued an ultimatum to the Viceroy “Promise India’s independence after the war and the Congress will wholeheartedly support the war effort”. The Viceroy refused and the ministries resigned on the instigation of Nehru in October 1939. this decision was heavily criticized by top ranking leaders within the Congress like Azad Vallabhai Patel and K.M. Munshi. this internal opposition believed that the Congress would be taken as a serious political player only if it remained within the government. By resigning the Congress had created a situation where Whitehall would no longer need to appease the Congress. As a result of Nehru’s decision the Muslim League was able to gain much needed political clout by supporting the British war effort (as the only voice of the Indian Muslims). The British in return promised to consult the League on all matters relating to the potential transfer of power. this essentially conferred a veto on the League that would eventually assist in being one of the contributing factors to the Partition of the country.

    8th Justice V. M. Tarkunde National Parliamentary Debate · 2 · 2020-02-07