Tom Facchine – The Double Standards On Qatar – World Cup 2022

			With the World Cup being hosted in Qatar, you know, this is something many people have said, 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 in 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
strait 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 they're 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, because most of the nations
that are putting on airs when they criticize other nations. And there's not to say that there's not
room for critique. There's definitely room for critique, but who's being put on a pedestal where
they're beyond critique, and who's under the radar, or who's under the microscope who's being held
to account a lot of hypocrisy going on up we have a saying people who live in glass houses shouldn't
		

			throw stones. And that's not to say that, again, there aren't valid critiques of thoughts on certain
things, especially the labor policies and all this sort of stuff. But when it comes from European
nations, the United States that act as if they're the standard of morality, and standard of
enlightenment and human rights, come on