Insane to think that all through the 90s we were told we absolutely had to let the Klan march in American cities to protect free speech and now they're withholding diplomas, firing people, imposing travel bans, qmd running weekslong smear campaigns for saying the word genocide.
Suddenly all the people who cared about human rights when Russia and Qatar hosted the world cup and suddenly quiet. .. No fancy documentary from the BBC on immigrants rights. No expose on Crime in inner cities (as we saw in South Africa)
Just silence.
News outlets in the West are a joke.
Football pundits are a disgrace.
All that energy for Qatar, Russia, and even South Africa.
But silence for the USA.
Despite blatant discrimination against people representing their nation in a sport where there's "no room for politics"
The Right Wing spent the last five years telling us that the NBA is dead, just for this season to break multiple ratings records.
Now Trump himself is attending a Finals game, ruining the experience for a lot of Knicks fans in the process.
brad has a rare form of amnesia that makes him forget over and over again that the mayor in 2022 was john tory and that he himself has been on city council all this time and was therefore involved in the decision to bring the world cup to toronto. some say there is no cure
No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.
This ought to be a very basic requirement.
Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022 hosted the World Cup and used it as an opportunity to clean up their image and show the world how welcoming they are
Donald Trump is quite literally doing the opposite, and FIFA are cowards for allowing this to happen