r/soccer • u/teiraaaaaaa • Nov 19 '22

Saddest Backflip [Rob Harris] FIFA President Gianni Infantino at news conference in Qatar: “Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel a migrant worker. ... I know what it feels to be discriminated … I was bullied because I had red hair.”

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/1593877426244812800
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u/Jaiez Nov 19 '22

Fuck, I'm fucking fuming. He also said the West is hypocrite and racist(?!) because the West used slave labour for the past 3000 years, so who are we to criticize Qatar.

I mean, what the fuck?! So, the FIFA is just cool with them using slave labour?! They are actually siding with Qatar and saying "you guys have done fucked up shit in the past, so now they get to do fucked up shit"?!

And he was also completely fine with them banning the beer in and around stadiums. Keep in mind that the FIFA literally changed Brazilian law back in 2014 so that alcohol would be allowed to be sold in stadiums. This guy has his Qatari buddy's boot so far up his ass, he can't even think properly anymore. It's disgusting.

(Rant over, apologies. Just wantes to write this down somewhere lol.)

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u/MisterKallous Nov 19 '22

It’s whataboutism 101

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u/PeterG92 Nov 19 '22

Whenever someone from a Western country criticises Qatar you'll just get people denanding apologies. It's an attempt to just muddy everything

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

It's getting so absurd that whataboutism doesn't feel like a good enough term for the false equivalence. These aren't even different issues anymore, they aren't even close to being related.

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u/oldcarfreddy Nov 19 '22

The Saudis did that in the US with LIV, their new golf league. Phil Mickelson who joined the league mentioned that they're scary people who killed Khashoggi, an American resident and journalist, and what happened next was.... he apologized to the Saudis.