Next year, the FIFA World Cup will be held in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, the first time the North American continent will host the world’s premier soccer tournament since 1994.
It will also be the first time the tournament is hosted in a nation known for human rights abuses.
In 2018, the tournament was hosted in Russia in the aftermath of a massive scandal that exposed soccer’s global governing body as a cesspool of corruption. Russia, of course, is famously known for its lack of corruption, and there is absolutely no history whatsoever of drug cheating in any sport, especially not in sporting events hosted on its soil.
Four years later, the World Cup made its way to Qatar, a beacon of freedom and hope in the Middle East that definitely did not use slave labor or other disturbing and morally horrific practices to build the opulent and glitzy stadiums that welcomed the world’s soccer stars in 2022.
This time, there is an unparalleled moral emergency that calls out for justice as the tournament prepares to come to the shores of the most oppressive nation on Earth: the U.S., led by a maniacal tyrant who hates foreigners, says men cannot be women, and imprisons anyone who dares speak out against him.
Of course, none of this is true. FIFA was ridiculed the world over for holding its 2018 tournament in Russia, a cesspool of corruption on par with the organization that is led by a regime that has a long history of cheating in sports, not to mention imprisoning and disappearing political opponents. Qatar did, in fact, use slave labor imported from poor countries to build the extravagant metropolises that hosted the event that year.
In contrast, the U.S. is led by a democratically elected government that was given a mandate from the people to solve a host of matters plaguing them, including addressing an inhumane immigration policy that has seen millions of people overwhelm cities and infrastructure to the detriment of the citizens who rely on these services.
But, of course, this didn’t stop Human Rights Watch, which ostensibly exists as a watchdog to expose human rights abuses, from writing a strongly worded letter to FIFA President Gianni Infantino equating the human rights abuses of Russia and Qatar to the Trump administration’s efforts to define biological sex, impose visa restrictions on foreign visitors, slow refugee admission, root out illegal immigration, and deport foreigners who espouse sympathies with terrorist groups such as Hamas.
“Since its return to office, the administration of President Donald Trump has implemented or is planning policies that fundamentally undermine the inclusive spirit of the World Cup and the nondiscrimination policies under FIFA’s Statutes,” the organization said in its letter, fretting that the administration would block fans, officials, and competitors from certain countries from attending — a farcical proposition.
There is good news and bad news for Human Rights Watch. The good news is that anyone who wants to be a part of the World Cup in 2026 will have the opportunity to do so. The bad news is that it exposed itself as a posse of partisan hacks who carry water for the global leftist elite and will use any excuse to bash the U.S.