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OW Australs 2021 Final – That, in countries with a history of ethnic tensions, we would embrace cultural appropriation
Tobi Leung, Nepal Australs 2021 Final, Opposition Whip Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/rGc6dQwg91w?t=3040 Motion: That, in countries with a history of ethnic tensions, we would embrace cultural appropriation. Opening The remedy to decades of brutal ethnic violence is not to allow those groups to tear away at hateful caricatures of each other and dismantle the tokens…
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DLO Pre-WSDC 2021 Finals – THS the Glorification of the Mediocre Life
(2nd Opposition Speaker) Jenna Hong, WSDC Hong Kong Team, Pre-WSDC 2021 Final Motion: THS the Glorification of the Mediocre Life Here’s the video: https://www.facebook.com/106053431657221/videos/1137307660090878 Opening I disagree with Singapore when they tell us that if you tell someone more than one thing is good, they’ll just get confused, because I don’t think that’s true. I…
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THBT the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement should campaign for reforming instead of defunding the police force
Motion: THBT the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement should campaign for reforming instead of defunding the police force. Proposition Opposition What is the theme? Socio-political issues, contemporary issues, minority rights, justice, social theories, and morality/ethics. Why is this debate? With the growing issue of social spaces increasing, political tensions tightening, police violence, and unresolved and…
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This House Believes That Individuals Have A Moral Obligation to Not Have Biological Children
Eva Quinones, 2020 HWS Round Robin Check the video here. Opening Speaker, we think perhaps life is as Hobbes detailed: nasty, brutish, and short. Perhaps it isn’t, but the most important thing in this debate is that you can’t know what if, what another person is experiencing is a perception of brutality and suffering and…
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6 Cases that Say “Yes, the government will listen”
In panic, I spent three entire minutes elaborating an argument of how the government would create reforms in education if the adjudicator supported my side. The opposing speaker struck my case down by simply saying, “No, the government will not do that. The government is only interested in getting re-elected. There are millions of externalities…