Comments by "Arthas Menethil" (@arthas640) on "Geopolitics of the 2022 World Cup" video.

@Colghan621 plenty of us cared the minute this story broke and there's been criticism for years now as Qatar abused their slave workers. It's just being discussed more and more on bigger news sources like this channel as the games get closer and closer
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@Cyan_Nightingale the Arabs are laughably cruel. People often criticize the US for waiting until the 1860s to abolish slavery but Yemen took until the 1970s to abolish slavery and Arabs were among the last to abolish it. Most of the low paid jobs, the worst jobs, and prostitutes in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait are all immigrants that are treated like slaves and make less than even illegal immigrants in western countries.
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@Colghan621 I'm not an activist, I'm not even a soccer fan, I just follow this story because I keep up on world news especially areas like the Gulf States. Despite not being a soccer fan I heard about this story originally around 6 or 7 years ago, there were stories on BBC (where i heard it from), The Guardian, Reuters and others. The first major stories were breaking back in 2014 and 2015 due to the Garcia Report and the resulting corruption scandal relating to the bidding for hosting rights of the World Cup. In 2017 there were more stories following the 2017 Qatar diplomatic crisis when a bunch of Arab states severed diplomatic ties with Qatar due to Qatar having ties with terrorist organizations and because some Arab states were pissed about Al Jazeera. The hosting of the world cup was brought up quite a bit in relation to that story. Since Qatar won the world cup there's been stories fairly regularly covering the treatment of migrant workers from all sorts of news agencies like the Wall Street Journal, BBC, the Guardian, and various human rights agencies as well. Those stories stretch back to around 2013 in relation to the World Cup and continued through to today. If you go on the Wikipedai page for the 2022 FIFA World Cup you'll see tons of different stories from news agencies around the globe stretching back nearly a decade. The stories did kind of get drowned out due to COVID-19 and the Ukraine War but they've been quiet prevalent for years now, it's just that now EVERYONE is bringing up ALL the stories about it again because the World Cup is about to start so it's being discussed more but that happens with any event like this. The same thing happened with things like the 2022 Olympics: China won the hosting rights way back in 2015 but there were major news stories about it back in 2018 concerning the Uyghur Genocide, Chinese corruption, human rights abuses, and Chinese imperialism and in 2021 the stories all got renewed when Biden threatened and later approved a diplomatic boycott, and then again the stories all became prevalent once more just before the games started in 2022.
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@leponpon6935 I could be wrong but i thought they failed to qualify. Back in 2013 they promised to allow Israel into Qatar should their team qualify. Qatar allowed some people to fly from Israel to Qatar for the first and likely only time, being an Arab country they're still pretty anti-semiotic but they're better than most Arab nations when it comes to Israeli relations. The flight actually made the news today.
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They refuse to because they know the fans don't care enough to not watch the games. Preventing the team from going will piss off tons of people including local fans but also Qatar, their allies, and neutral people who'll view it as a hostile action and that means they need tons of people opposing Qatar in their country or the boycott will backfire. To the team it doesn't matter who hosts it, they'll want to play regardless and it would take their fans demanding them not to play to get them to even consider not playing. It all comes down to the fans not caring.
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@hojboj3222 There are other reasons for boycotting as well. Qatar just ended a major diplomatic crisis relating to accusations of backing terrorist organizations, they've faced tons of backlash relating to Al Jazeera ranging from accusations of propaganda, racism (including outright claiming that the Jews deserved the Holocaust), and bias among other things, and there was that whole corruption scandal where Qatar flat out bought the hosting rights which alone was drawing calls for removing Qatar's right to host the games and rebidding the hosting rights. Also anything relating to the UK's human rights abuses and past war crimes are immaterial since they werent even putting in a bid to host the games. As for the US they have committed war crimes in the past but nobody raised any concerns about them hosting the FIFA world cup and the US's human rights record is much better than Qatars, depending on the source and metric used the US is ranked around #15 or #20 in the world in terms of human rights whereas Qatar is near the bottom of most lists at around #85 or lower, often below countries like Russia, Iran, China, or even Saudi Arabia. Just look at how the 2 approach their treatment of migrants: where I live in the US migrant workers are entitled to minimum wage at the very least which is $14/hr, illegal immigrants can often make at a minimum $10/hr but will often make close to minimum wage in most jobs (but they'll usually be working harder jobs than most legal residents working minimum wage) whereas in Qatar, a country where the per capita income is around 50% higher, they'll make around $200 a month and sometimes arent paid for months of work but cant leave or lodge complaints. A legal migrant worker in Qatar will make less in a month than an illegal immigrant will make in a week in the US.
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@aldenpadilla1773 If Piers Morgan said that he's finally gone off the deep end. First off that's pretty impressive the US killed "millions" in Afghanistan when the total body count for total deaths, civilian and military, caused by both sides, is at most a little over 200k. So I guess the US went on a killing rampage, sent disguised suicide soldiers into Afghanistan to detonate themselves in crowds, disguised themselves as Afghans and went on shooting sprees, planted IED's and sent their own soldiers into them, and then to get rid of the witnesses they shot around 70,000 of their own allied Afghan Security Forces allies, then just repeated that say 5-10 times? That's pretty impressive since Americans opposed to the war and international groups have been monitoring the war since the outset and even impartial groups have put the body count at most 220k. Israel is completely irrelevant to Qatar being boycotted, but it's always entertaining to see people show their antisemtitic ways so blatantly. I'm not sure how familiar with the Arab world but Qatar was recently blockaded during a diplomatic crisis and the ones who did that were all Muslim nations, included Egypt who went ot war with Israel. Qatar and Israel's human rights records arent even comparable, according to various metrics Israel normally ranks about the middle globally at around #60 of 165 nations that are ranked but Qatar is almost universally near the bottom near countries ranked near nations like Russia, China, and Rwanda. The "very high salary" part seems rather laughable. Migrants in western countries can expect minimum wage and some legal protections. In countries like the US that's around $7-$15/hr or around $1,100-$2,400 per month whereas in Qatar it's around $200 per month. My family are immigrants and I know both legal and illegal migrants and even illegal immigrants often make around 3/4 minimum wage on the lower end but often they're just doing the hard minimum wage jobs citizens dont want to do. Taxes are irrelevant if you can make 10x as much after taxes in the US vs Qatar with lower taxes. These numbers are also skewed since in Qatar they're often forced to work tons of unpaid overtime and may not get paid for weeks or month whereas in the west they'll only have to work for 40 hours without extra per hour for overtime. That $200 a month is close to what the lowest paid doctors in Bangladesh can make, which is around 22,000 BDT, but that's on the lowest end. On the higher end of that scale they make over 100,000 BDT (around $1000) which is still pretty low. The thing is though there are tons of countries where construction workers can work. I work construction in the US and you literally cant find anyone to work for less than $15 per hour or around $2400 a month, and that's for the simplest, lowest skilled jobs, and that's for someone with little to no experience and isnt especially working especially hard. If you work hard or have a useful skill like electrician or plumber you can make far more, like $404-$50 per hour or $6400-$8000 per month. People in the west are pissed at the UAE and other Arabian countries, the US has been having diplomatic battles with Saudi Arabia despite the Saudis being a US ally and it's all for their treatment of journalists and other human rights abuses. People have been mocking places like Dubai for their hedonistic excesses, their corruption, and their human rights records for the last 15 years or more. Dubai being like Las Vegas while also having a medieval values system and laws often draws complaints. They're all not really "puppets" of the US either, they just extort the US for support, as Bidens recent dealings with the Saudi's and his complete inability to get them to ramp up oil production shows how little control the US has on them. The SAme goes for the 1970s oil crisis: the US pissed off the Arabs so they basically crashed the US economy and caused the second worst economic disaster of the 20th century. Alos many Americans oppose Israel in their conflict with Palestine. The US even elected Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian Americna woman, to Congress and she's been very vocal in her criticsm of Israel. Bernie Sanders, a Jewish American politician, also has been critical of Israel in the past and supports a two state solution with Palestine getting it's own state. Several politicians including Sanders and Tlaib support the "Boycott, Divest, Sanction Movemet" which is a boycott of Israel to protest their human rights abuses.
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@ChairmanMeow1 yeah at least our stadiums aren't built by slaves or hosted by people who donate their fortunes to extremists. It's insanely over valued and they spend way too much money but there's also less corruption, you rarely hear about anyone buying a Super Bowl game or bribing the entire governing body of the NFL.
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