Tom Facchine – Qatar World Cup 2022 Hypocrisy

			There's a lot of hypocrisy that goes around. People always imagine or try to say that sports can
unite people and no politics, but there's always politics and everything, you know, the World Cup,
the logic of it, it deals with the nation state. And that's politics already, you can't get away
from it. And then whenever something is done in a, you know, a space outside of Western Europe, or
the United States, we always hear criticism about this and criticism about that. Now, it's about
Qatar. And it's sort of their own, you know, some of the Islamic values against sexuality against,
you know, certain types of expressions of individualism, these sorts of things. And there's a double
		

			standard. And everybody knows this, because when the Olympics or the World Cup is being held the
United States who's going to bring up the displacement and dispossession of the Native Americans,
who's going to bring up the treatment of African Americans and the slave trade north north Atlantic
straight slave trade, who's going to bring up Nagasaki and Hiroshima, who's going to bring up all
this and we could keep going, there's so many things. So it's like, you know, please, like, or let's
go to the European nations and their colonialism, right? Like there was, you know, the, we can look
at the map and the 1880s. And there's only a few colors on there because at one point, the European
		

			colonial nations or empires had dominated most of the world. If we want to open that bag, we can
open that bag. We can go there, but it's not going to be pretty