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Badger and Squirrel

@BadgerASquirrel

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Malaysia WUDC 2015@MalaysiaWorlds3 Jan 2015
And this year's Malaysia WUDC 2015 WORLD CHAMPION: University of Sydney Union!
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Congratulations Stephen Garafano who is adjing the open quarter final! We love you Stephen! @UNSWDebsoc #wudc2015
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The motion for the QF of WUDC is TH regrets the decline of secular pan-Arab nationalism #wudc2015
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Aussie teams through to quarters at #WUDC2015 are USU A USU B USU C MAD A MEL A
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Commiserations to ANU A who are knocked out in the octofinals. We love you and are incredibly proud of what you achieved #WUDC2015 #anuhope
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Malaysia WUDC 2015@MalaysiaWorlds2 Jan 2015
From room 4, going through to the open quarter finals are BPP A & TCD-Phil A.
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
When you are able to say that you are of the same value as the majority is when you can have change
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
Being able to enter the mainstream deconstructs social hierarchies
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
Being able to access the main stream identity means you have more choice of ways to act etc.
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
Structurally the majority will always the the celebration of difference
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Main stream is comparatively less prescriptive because it needs to accept lots of different norms to maintain its dominance.
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
White gay men can oppose an oppressive identity on the gay community
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The Phil@tcdphil2 Jan 2015
The norm that says gay people have to be promiscuous is as oppressive as the norm that heterosexual people have to be monogamous
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The following retweets from @tcdphil are continuations of the CG case. To see the entire closing half, check out their page
Apologies for the abrupt end to our livetweeting - we are not sure what occured. @tcdphil have done a great job tweeting the remainder
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frantic whispering and arm waving from the canary. vaguely clawy.
CG: majority identities based on broad appeal and allows for varied interpretations and experiences
Minority identities also oppressive cos Intersectionality, mainstream polices minority identities from outside.
DEMOCRATIC FEAR!
What is difference? Moral distinctions based on descriptive difference, so less descriptors to attach normative judgements to them
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