Navid Zarrinnal, a scholar of Iran and the Middle East at Stanford University in California, remarked in an email to me that “Western supremacist attitudes and cultural imperialism” are being showcased at the World Cup – “disguised”, as usual, as “advocacy for human rights”. This arrangement naturally makes it difficult for Western states and NGOs to “prioritise self-reflection over their saviour anxieties.
On the eve of the World Cup kickoff, Gianni Infantino, the Italian president of FIFA, delivered a rambling speech, which – a couple of patronising detours into Orientalism notwithstanding – took some valid hits at Western hypocrisy: “I think for what we Europeans have been doing in the last 3,000 years, around the world, we should be apologising for the next 3,000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people.
its own – a practice that, as in Europe, has rendered US-bound migration a frequently deadly undertaking. Not that life is a peach for those who successfully cross the border, many of whom perform services crucial to the US economy and yet are drastically underpaid, demonised by society, and utilised as political scapegoats.
Pro sports is about corporate profits. Sell a corporation on the idea they can make money and one of them will bite. Competitiveness and winning games are only selling pitches. Entertainment is what puts cash in their pockets is the primary objective above athletes.
Oh FFS, they throw gays off of buildings in Iraq and Iran, In the UAE they behead us so spare me the long history of LGBTQs in the Muslim world of poetry or art. The same in Qatar. So spare me. Only straight people would print this ridiculous piece of trash.