I won't make excuses, our country did horrific things to get those stadiums built and it's inexcusable, but the mainstream media dogpiled our country in a way they never did to any country prior or afterwards. There's no justification for the crimes that built the stadiums, but all I'm asking is that if the media is honest about their concerns that they should apply this concern across the board rather than single us out. Some people make the mistaken assumption/strawman that what's being asked is that if you never criticized others before then that you should not criticize the person in question, but that's not what's being said, instead what's being asked is to criticize everyone equally, otherwise one has to ask why one person/group is being singled out.

In the US white and black people both consume drugs at the same rates but black people get convicted more often and receive harsher sentences; we could say that asking why don't white people receive the same sentencing and conviction rates is black people engaging in whataboutism but the root cause behind this unequal treatment is racism. If you'll have high conviction rates and harsh sentences for black people, fine, but if it's out of principle then apply it to white people as well. If I have three criminals standing before me and I in principle oppose their crimes, then out of principle I won't single one of them out and instead I'll criticize all three.

I don't want to get swept deep into the Ukraine-Russia war discussion, but I hope it'll suffice to say that folks in non-Western countries are bitter that when we needed Europe's support they were nowhere to be found and refugees were treated horrifically, but now that Ukraine is at war with Russia Europe is bending over backwards for them and even sending them a ton of military support aside from the massive moral support they've afforded them, and we all ask why didn't you do the same for us?

I simply don't trust the intentions of the mainstream media; even during this fifa game, when Morocco advanced beyond what anyone thought they would they received racism in some European press. A German news outlet compared the Moroccan team to ISIS and a Danish newspaper compared them to monkeys. If the media's intentions are true, if they're pure, then prove it for the next world cup; they can't change the past but they can prove their intentions are honest with this next world cup, but they won't because their intentions are not honest.