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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really enjoy watching soccer - I just have mixed feelings about QATAR hosting - apart from obscene amounts of money spent buying votes, thousands of temporary workers died while working on building the facilities needed. One female referee who was raped by a colleague reported the assault and was charged with adultery and ordered to get 100 lashes before she escaped back to her home country. Insane amounts of energy wasted to allow the games to go ahead in the arid ecosystem. Fans are being housed in plastic tents for hundreds of dollars a day. Guests are not allowed to drink beer, wine if other alcohol.

And while QATAR is blaming legitimate concerns around their hosting on racism, the reality is that many human lives have been lost and many recourses squandered to allow the World Cup to be hosted on Doha in order to put their tiny Uber wealthy country on the world’s front stage. [/quote]

Too many ethical red flags around this World Cup. Why are so few people talking about the thousands of temporary workers who have died making it possible? [/quote]

Plenty of people have been talking about this for years. Where were you?[/quote]

OK I was abroad for several years during past ten years but did not hear people who love soccer talking about the ethics of it being hosted in QATAR until very recently.  The story in the female referee who was raped and charged with adultery/ sentenced to 100 lashes got very little attention. I did not hear people talking about it until recently.

I have only heard intense coverage of the ethics on the news very recently and don’t hear many people talking about socially. 
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