Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Ro (are0h@ubiqueros.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 13:27:51 JST Ro

   in reply to

   Look, I understand people's beef with Qatar on their hosting the World Cup. The lead-up to this one was really ugly.
   
   But so was the one in L.A as was the Olympics in ATL. All of those events have resulted in mass displacement and brutal crackdown on workers and populations.
   
   If we're going to criticize Qatar, as we should, why is no one talking about the trend of how this happens at most international events. Qatar is not unique, it's just the latest.
   
   Not watching the World Cup because of Qatar's human rights infractions is fair. But let's keep that same energy when these events happen in Western countries as well.
   
   All I'm saying is be fair.

   • Alexandre Oliva likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Ro (are0h@ubiqueros.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Nov-2022 13:27:54 JST Ro

     Wooo boy, white people do not like when you interrupt their self-righteousness about oppression and injustice in Muslim countries and remind them of the oppression and injustice in Western ones.
     
     Ha, I'm always tickled by that dynamic.

     Evan Prodromou repeated this.