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  • This house would out the poitician

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    X is a prominent politician in a relatively conservative society. They have a track record of pushing for policies in favour of a religious majority within the country. You are a journalist in the country known for your progressive writing. You have recently uncovered irrefutable evidence that this politician is gay

    TIB-JUDO Pre Eminence · 4 · 2020-11-26

  • This house believes that progressive social movements in India (e.g. feminist or LGBTQ+ movement) should strongly distance themselves from the West (e.g by not accepting funding, not exchanging information, or heavily emphasising their cultural specifity)

    Birmingham ESL · 2 · 2020-11-22

  • This house, as Ariana Grande upon being offered to headline at the event, will completely boycott Coachella and turn the offer down.

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    Coachella is organized by Billionaire Philip Anschutz's Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). Coachella showcases popular and established musical artists as well as emerging artists and reunited groups and has been an annual event since 2001. It is one of the largest, most famous, and most profitable music festivals in the United States and the world. In 2017 and 2018 Anschutz was accused of donating millions of dollars to Anti-LGBTQ+ organizations. In 2019, Ariana Grande became the 4th woman to headline at Coachella. For the finale Ariana Grande had a Pride Flag projected on to all of the screens of the Coachella mainstage. It was seen as a protest against the anti-LGBTQ+ donations of Coachella owner Philip Anschutz.

    La Liberta · Open Semis · 2020-11-20

  • As LGBTQIA+ community in conservative areas, this house would discourage our opened identity member from having relationship with closeted individuals

    JOVED · 1 · 2020-11-07

  • This house would Prefer To Live In A World Where Everyone Is Born With A Fluid Sexuality

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    This house believes that Indonesian workers are justified in using in-person tactics (eg: large public gatherings, protests, picketing) to protest the Omnibus Law during the pandemic

    Asian High School Debating Championship · Novice Final · 2020-10-31

  • This house would provide significance tax benefits to publicly listed STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) companies whose top executives are at least 60% non-cisgender men.

    NTU Pro-Ams 2020 · 2 · 2020-10-16

  • This house as the LGBTQ+ movement regrets pink capitalism

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    Pink Capitalism refers to the incorporation of the LGBTQ+ movement into the mainstream market economy. Pinkwashing is making products or the image of a company appear gay-friendly to showcase progressiveness and ally themselves with LGBTQ+ movement.

    The Contemplative Dialogue Debate Tournament 2020 · Open Quarters · 2020-10-10

  • This house, as prominent TERFs, would publicly support and financially donate to freedom of gender expression causes that do not contradict with our core belief (donating to cross-dress fashion labels, norm of asking prefered gender pronoun, etc)

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    TERF: abbreviation for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist: The exclusionary of trans-women from feminism or women label have been widely opposed, and deemed transphobic by liberals. People who support the idea of this exclusion are called 'TERFs' which is a label meant to be derogatory as the adjective 'radical' and 'exclusionary' are not desirable traits in an open and progressive society.: There are many reasons why people become 'TERFs', ranging from the very conservative ideas that everyone should be subject to the sex and gender they were assigned at birThis house, to the more moderate ones where some degree of sexual & gender fluidity may be acceptable. For the purpose of this debate, 'TERFs' are people whose beliefs are as follows: 1) Sex & gender are different things, where sex is related to biology and gender is related to expression. 2) Everyone, regardless of their sex, is able to freely express themselves like whichever gender (or lack thereof) they want. 3) Sex is not a social construct and should not be determined by self-identification. For example: a biological male athlete who identifies as a woman can't participate in a woman's category. 4) The only legitimate change for sex change is when individuals possess medical conditions called 'gender dysphoria' and commit to a gradual, yet complete, sex re-assignment surgery.

    Alsa Ecomp UI · 3 · 2020-10-08

  • Assuming conservatives would accept the RUU-PKS bill afterwards, this house believes that progressives should agree to explicitly draft the exclusion of sexual minorities from the scope of the law.

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    RUU-PKS is a bill that aims to comprehensively define which sexual conduct is legitimate and, more importantly, which should be regarded as a crime. The opposition to this bill comes from conservative groups/parties. (for example: PKS, ironically). one of the leading argument was that RUU-PKS is a bill used to further justify and promote consensual same-sex relationships in the eyes of the law.

    Alsa Ecomp UI · School 3 · 2020-10-08

  • This house believes that the state should not enforce anti-discrimination laws to discriminative acts applied by religious institutions to their own members (i.e. refusing to provide sermons for gay marriage even when the state acknowledges marriage equality, etc.)

    Alsa Ecomp UI · Open Octos · 2020-10-08

  • This house regrets the prominence of declaring one's sexual orientation (EG national coming out Day) as a tactic for acceptance by the LGBT community

    Europe Queer Open · Open Semis · 2020-09-26