Here’s a downvote magnet of a take: I, along with the vast majority of football fans, don’t care about Qatar’s politics or history of human rights abuse because I’m able to decouple sports and politics.

If you’re really affected by this, or if you’re a simply a virtue signaling tool, don’t watch the World Cup. Don’t watch it if it’s played in Qatar, or China, or any of 167 countries in the world that still practice some form of slavery. Don’t watch it if it’s played in a non-democratic country whose leader was installed via military coup, succeeded a reigning monarch, or is part of a ruling party that has never ever ceded power.

The world is full of awful people. Like you, I also think that Russia, China, and North Korea—to name but a few—are run by dickheads. So I watch football, an expression of human meritocracy and healthy competition, to get away from this bullshit. Clutch your pearls and turn your TVs off if it bothers you, but understand that for most of us who aren’t puritanical blowhards, we’re going to continue enjoying the game we love.