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[Real News] World Cup: German players protest FIFA rainbow ban, call human rights nonnegotiable

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  1. Ubiquitin

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    https://www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2022-11-23/world-cup-notes-23

    World Cup: German players protest FIFA rainbow ban, call human rights nonnegotiable

    AL RAYYAN, Qatar —

    German players placed their hands over the mouths during their pregame photo and wore rainbow-colored stripes on their warmup shirts and cleats before Wednesday’s game with Japan, the most dramatic protest yet against FIFA’s efforts to keep World Cup teams from protesting Qatar’s dismal human rights record.

    Germany was one of seven European teams that planned to have its captain wear a OneLove armband to promote tolerance, diversity and LGBTQ rights in Qatar, where same-sex relationships are banned. FIFA responded Monday by threatening to issue a yellow card to any player wearing the armband.

    But if FIFA President Gianni Infantino thought that would end the matter, he has been proved wrong.
     
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    Their bigger protest is that they are boycotting the round of 16 by playing like absolute wussies against Japan.

    I would have preferred less virtue signaling and a better performance on the pitch.

    Losers.
     
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    It's interesting how you see the NFL, MLB, and NBA move major events out of states over such as voting laws. While those are important I don't think GA's voting law is remotely near the repression that Qatar does on women, migrant workers and LGBTQ. It's almost ironic to think that those organizations have more of a spine and ethics than FIFA.
     
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    Where the Argetinians protesting too?
     
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  5. Ubiquitin

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    As you post this on the checks domain Houston Rockets forum? The league's worst 3-14 Houston Rockets. And you have the gaul to call these upstanding world class stars, losers?
     
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    I guess the Rockets and Texans are protesting too.
     
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    LOL, they went to Qatar for the World Cup

    it's a two way street this stuff

    @rocketsjudoka


    @AroundTheWorld
     
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    He's right
     
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    Regardless on how you feel about a country’s laws and culture, it’s their country

    Britney Griner understands this

    Its not like they are in Texas or Florida where you have freedom
     
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    Unless a teacher wants the freedom to have a picture of their same sex spouse on their desk.
     
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    Have a great thanksgiving to everyone in the south !
    And to all the west coast people with homeless people peeing in front of their house a block away from the Pelosis, we are all the same but some of us don’t get ripped off by state income tax !
     
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    stunning and brave
     
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    Sorry breh
    Germany can go home early in the tourney and watch she hulk

    Forget puberty blockers
    They need to block some soccer balls
    @ROXRAN
     
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    Because that is exactly what happens in California. Lol
     
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    Happy thanksgiving to all the Californians living in Austin and Houston and Dallas
    We know you are Californians cause you look like you just bought your first house with two bathrooms !
    @Salvy
    @ROXRAN @J.R.
     
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    Athletes have a platform and at the end of the day they are grown men playing a children's game. Them choosing to use their platform to be activists doesn't really bother me. Athletes shouldn't get flack the other way either if they choose not to be activists.

    That being said... yeah. The biggest message would have been not showing up at all OR if FIFA chose not to award Qatar a bid. This all falls on deaf ears because they still chose to show up is my two cents.
     
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    At the end of the day: FIFA is not the product. Qatar sure as hell is not the product. Qatar tried to sports-wash its nation's profile and failed spectacularly.

    These world class athletes are the draw. World class on the pitch and off.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/jan-vertonghen-world-cup-controlled-28558647

    Jan Vertonghen says players being "controlled" at World Cup and afraid to speak out
    FIFA have been heavily criticised for their handling of the OneLove armbands at the Qatar World Cup and Belgium defender Jan Vertonghen is frustrated by the situation

     
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    How many of those Germans are moving to South Beach because they don't like immigrants or gays, of which there are none, due to the White Boots of Tallahassee ?

    That is the truly important question here.
     
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