ZURICH—Defending the organization against criticism over the human rights record of 2022 World Cup host Qatar, clash-flush FIFA executives told reporters Tuesday that every World Cup host has had slaves at some point. “What the woke critics complaining about this year’s host utterly fail to realize is that human…
ZURICH—Defending the organization against criticism over the human rights record of 2022 World Cup host Qatar, clash-flush FIFA executives told reporters Tuesday that every World Cup host has had slaves at some point.
[2014 host] Brazil? Slavery—the last country in the Western world to abolish slavery, I might add. [2010 host] South Africa? Slavery. [2006 host] Germany? Don’t get us started. [2002 co-hosts] South Korea and Japan, [1998 host] France—a cursory look at the history books shows them enslaving people all over the place. [1994 host] The United States? I mean, come on! So you have to look at what Qatar needed to do to get all those stadiums built within the context of history.
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