[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

The problem is that the Qatari state uses its blood money to buy publicity for itself and improve the optics of their slavestate by arranging lavish sports arrangements to project an air of wealth and prosperity when in fact it's nothing but a slavery powered kleptocracy.

I wonder how you could possibly be ok with this. Are you some kind of libertarian?

[lvbu]

The money with Quatar is not blood money. It's just money from selling natural gas. Just like norway got it's pension fund.

And how is quatar a slavery. Are they slaves just because they are a monarchy?

Yes quatar is a monarchy and they behave like dictators. But so is Russia where sports competitions are held. So is china where olympicis was held.

Even the prosperity of Europe is made on the back of colonialism.

So is London which is the place where all the criminals from around world move their money into.

So i Switzerland which has a reputation of storing black money.

So is France which still leech Money from Africa.

1. Do you plan to not use petroleum and natural gas which comes mostly from MENA and Russia

2. DO you plan to not use phones made in china which is a dictatorship

[iforgotpassword]

If a married woman gets raped in Qatar, she cannot report it to police, as that would lead to her getting the death penalty for adultery. That country is absolutely fucking horrible. Like, even places ad bad as India where men regularly attack women with acid pale in comparison.

[lvbu]

So what is the problem? Is it slavery? Is it that quatar is hot? Is it that quatar doesn't like LGBTQ?

Why new reasons come up in every comment rather than any justification for the parent comment at all?

Are you going to watch football or to marry someone?

And should you boycott US also where random people kill innocent children regularly for no reason?

From this discussions in this thread atleast the problem with quatar is nothing of what is mentioned. Westerners can't accept that a nation culturally so different from theris can host an important tournament. They can't accept that people's have different priorities different cultures and different way of looking at life. They can't accept that about 2 billion people of the world are having the most accesible world cup.

In short, they can't accept that world doesent exist just for westerners. Since they can't tell that openly due to being called out for racism, they come up with these reasons..

[iforgotpassword]

You are the one who is trying to turn around the discussion all the time. So give me some straight answers:

You think punishing a woman for getting raped is acceptable?

You think punishing someone for being homosexual is acceptable?

You think treating workers building the Worldcup facilities like slaves by working them to death is acceptable?

Please give me straight yes/no answers to those. No more hand-wavy BS and then stating how accessible the Worldcup now is.

It's mind-bending how you can turn around and call criticizing these things a proxy for racism, or that it's just cultural difference.

> And should you boycott US also where random people kill innocent children regularly for no reason?

You're already admitting here how different it is. You say random people, and that's what it is. Individual people or a group of people misbehaving, acting against the law which can and does get prosecuted. Not always unfortunately, and there are systematic problems that need to be addressed, but unlike Qatar's many crimes against humanity, they are not institutionalized and written in law. Again, the West is by far not perfect, but compared to these kind of countries, we've come a very long way.

[lvbu]

Am not telling that is acceptable. Am just telling that this is a football World Cup. Not a a cultural world cup.

And any nation including European who has hosted it has done similar bad things in past. So are why outage only now?

Us went ahead and killed thousands of women and children in Iraq. So do you boycott sports in US.

UK still white washes colonialism in Schools. They have not apologized for jalianwalabagh massacre. Do you boycott them.

France still leeches money from poor countries in Africa. Do you boycott them.

And finally quatar and saudi uses slave labour and treats homosexuals badly. Do you boycott petroleum and natural gas.

Then why only boycott world cup in quatar

Many mobiles and textile manufacturing is with slave labour. So is chocolates and cofee. You consume them. So what's new about quatar.

Yes for me accesibility is important. Because my friends can watch it without spending a year of their earnings. If you can conduct World cups in uk is or France or Russia, then you can conduct in quatar too. Regards of openions reeking in hypocrisy and racism

[iforgotpassword]

Well, i certainly cannot address every single wrongdoing in existence, as a single person I cannot save the world through boycotts, obviously. But yes, I do call out the kinds of things you mention. I get into arguments with people who are unaware or ignorant to the wrongdoings of the west or their country in particular, and claim the west is perfect today. It's not. But it has come a very long way in the past century. I try to buy fair trade goods where possible, even if it's sometimes more than double the price. Did I travel to San Fernando to verify my coffee really comes from farmers that get treated fair? Of course not. I boycott all brands that advertise using the Qatar world cup. I boycott Nestlé. I'm trying to do the right thing without dedicating my life to it. So don't call me a hypocrite to deflect from the fact that you're putting your desire for an accessible world cup over basic human rights issues with the hosting country.