States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.
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Bernie Sanders
Daily Debate #592: "States should ban new data centers until rules are clear.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Bernie Sanders.
User
Schools in Kenya should be prohibited from punishing students for speaking their indigenous or local languages on school grounds.
Bernie Sanders
Wrong side. You're arguing FOR prohibition. I'm arguing AGAINST it.
Listen, forcing English and Swahili creates opportunity. Kids who master national languages escape poverty traps. Local dialects keep them locked in villages. Education is the ladder out.
Why sacrifice mobility for sentiment?
User
Where does prohibiting the punishment of local languages still prevent the fluency of the national languages
Bernie Sanders
It doesn't. Kids speak both at home and outside school. English fluency doesn't require punishing Kikuyu in the hallway. You're creating a false choice between languages when bilingualism is the actual win.
Why punish what students already speak naturally?
User
Let's be honest, local languages have been in a decline in recent years. One of the main reson for this is school punishing the instade of promating them
Bernie Sanders
Exactly backwards. Schools aren't killing local languages, globalization is. Kids choose English for jobs, not because teachers scolded them. Banning punishment won't reverse economics. Why pretend school discipline caused what the job market already decided?