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Qatar world cup has done many controversial things, but is all the buzz and conversation good for awareness? I believe that if you're prejudiced against 3 women you're being sexist to all women. I think it's the same for everything, if you're prejudiced against 4 trans people then you're being transphobic to all trans people, if you're being prejudiced against 5 men, it's offensive to all men. So when a issue of people being sexist or homophobic in a certain culture or country comes up, in my opinion it would effect people who are not part of that belief system.  One Love armband The global conversation that's being had right now about Qatar and the World Cup is a good example of this. The basics of this discussion is that people are questioning if Qatar is ‘worthy’ of being the host of the world cup because of its morals and the culture within the country.  An example of bad morals is the stadiums that for the last 12 years they have been building, but ...

On the eve of the World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino caused a stir by launching into a passionate defence of the host nation Qatar, and criticising the attacks on them, which have come largely from the western nations, regarding their position on the LGBTQIA+ community there, and their treatment of the migrant workers who came to Qatar to build the stadiums (passports taken, 14-16 hour working days, unventilated, basic accommodation). The conditions that the Qatari migrant workers lived(and live) in. Infantino said, “This moral lesson giving, one-sided…It’s just hypocrisy. I think for what we Europeans have been doing for the last 3000 years we should be apologising for 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to others.” So is it right of us to tell Qatar what’s right and wrong? Or is this another case of ‘We’re superior, follow us.’ Are some things moral absolutes? Some things are basic human rights. Many Qataris have gotten annoyed at western ‘disrespect’ to the...

A person in power says, to one single big society, that people shouldn’t be able to give moral criticism and advice if they have done wrong themselves. But there is no perfect person like that, therefore no one can give any criticism and advice. Gianni Infantino: Fifa President We are seeing a lot of problems with the Qatar world cup so far. On a larger scale and on a smaller scale. Examples are: the mistreatment of migrant workers who built the stadiums, the ignorance towards inclusivity of LGBTQIA+ communities and other specific nations, and even bribing actors to act as hardcore Qatar fans in the stadium.  The backlash to these issues, and simply the fact that the world cup 2022 is in Qatar, has been huge. People worldwide have been criticising and grumbling about both Qatar and FIFA, many people also boycotting the event.  In response to all of this, the day before the football started, FIFA president ‘Gianno Infantino’ turned a news conference into a rant defending Qatar....