This House Would Pay Reparations | Cambridge Union
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2022
- November 10th 2022 at 20:00 in the Debating Chamber
Debate Results: Prop: 302 | Absn: 67 | Opp: 93
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The University of Cambridge has recently launched an extensive investigation into the legacies of slavery at this university. Additionally, the University Council decided to return the collection of Benin Bronzes held in Cambridge back to the government of Nigeria following their looting long ago. There is no better time to revisit the question of whether Britain owes reparations to its former colonies.
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Proposition
1. Bell Riberio-Addy has been the labour Member of Parliment for Streatham since 2019. She is a self-described "life-long socialist" and feminist, and served as Shadow Minister for Immigration in 2020.
2. Dr Meera Sabaratnam
Dr Meera Sabaratnam is a reader in International Relations at SOAS University of London. Her research focuses on the colonial and postcolonial dimentions of world poltics, and her book Decolonising Intervention seeks to criticise the current model of development aid.
3. Student Speaker
Opposition
1. Fr Calvin Robinson
The Reverend Calvin Robinson is an Anglican Deacon, TV/Radio Presenter and Conservative Commentator. He regularly features on GMB, BBC Radio, GB News and in print for The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Spectator and Spiked.
2. Rafe Heydel-Mankoo
Rafe Heydel-Mankoo (FRCGS, BA, LLB, MA) is an author broadcaster and historian specialising in British institutions, the Monarchy and the Commonwealth Realms. From the BBC to ABC, Rafe is a well-known commentator in national and international media. He is a trustee of the Royal Canadian Heritage Trust and a senior fellow at the New Culture Forum think tank.
3. Studnet Speaker
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Very disappointing that attendees at one of the most prestigious universities in the world cannot listen to opposing opinions without jeering, laughing, and gasping.
The reputation of Cambridge University takes a massive hit here. These students are unbelievably rude and apparently opinionated.
Is this cambridge university or an adult daycare centre?
The way these young people are laughing at what Calvin is saying shows how totally out of touch and uneducated they are. Is this really the best we can do?
The behaviour of the audience members is appalling: Talking, sneering, chatting, laughing, on their phones and sticking their fingers in their mouths like toddlers. They seem incapable of sitting still and listening.
The gasps of shock and horror when someone dare point out they are privileged !
actually terrifying how all these young minds are laughing at the only voice making any sense.
The behavior of the Chinese kid is appalling. What a disgrace for a person who is on a good University.
The reason these kids at Cambridge behave as they do is because not only have they never experienced real life, they have no fear that they ever will.
These kids don’t want to listen, just tunnel vision on what’s trendy.
This is Cambridge. Not some suburban middleschool.
I'm not angry at these kids, I'm sure I would have been one of them. I'm angry at the superannuated grifters who exploit their ignorance, and a system which gives them the vote.
You could not give a better example of how failing the school system is than to show these Cambridge students. Definitely the best argument for rqising the voting age
Sorry, is this actually the Cambridge Union? Is it not high-school students visiting or something hearing a debate or an opposing view for the first time? This can’t be Cambridge…these can’t be the brilliant minds of the future… what a disgrace.
Look at the state of the students they are incapable of listening to anything Calvin said. If that's the future we are in trouble.
Hang about, how did the first speaker get from "Should this House pay reparations?" to "Look at all the right-wing nationalism rife in Europe" and "Brexit isn't working"? Stay on topic, please!
Gosh. I’m grateful that Calvin is willing to stand up and debate and in such a reasonable way.
The chinese students are hilarious. How soon they have forgotten Tibet and Hong Kong.
Unfortunately this was a lost debate before stepping into the room. They are not prepared to listen.
"Your Mom"- great stuff. These little prats should be ashamed of themselves. Academia is in an absolute mess