.EdgeofSports: Many well-meaning people may be wondering whether we should highlight Qatar’s mistreatment of LGBTQ people or clean our own house before lecturing other countries. Neither response is enough.
It doesn’t always appear that those decrying the banning of armbands thousands of miles away are as vocal on behalf of those who are hunted and oppressed here at home. Our children’s hospitals are receiving bomb threats for providing legal gender-affirming care, and drag performers reading books to children rightly fear violence. Make no mistake: Social media is lit up withHere in the United States, LGBTQ people are being targeted by gun-toting killers egged on by a right-wing media ecosystem.
Many well-meaning people here may be wondering whether we should highlight Qatar’s mistreatment of LGBTQ people or clean our own house before lecturing other countries. Neither response is enough. We can express solidarity with the LGBTQ community of Qatar — and express solidarity with the women andfor this World Cup — and link Qatar’s oppressive laws to a broader, international trend toward right-wing authoritarianism that currently stalks the United States.
We must start seeing these revanchist movements as global. That means our movement must be global as well. That means we can’t stop at only pointing out injustices abroad. It means we have to turn the mirror of examination onto our own country, no matter how repugnant the reflection.
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