Again, sport in the US mostly own by corporation. Every other country, would host many events, yet when the Saudi do it, it is a sportswashing. What funny is, sport never stopped people from ignoring any other acts the saudi do. Which make this more like people crying because someone else have more money and willing to spend it on these activities taking them away from the US.
The reason it is sports washing is because they have human rights abuses to be hidden. If you shred documents because they have your personal information on it, it fine. If you shred documents because they are evidence of a crime, then that is obstruction of justice. Same principle applies here.
I think the idea is that people talk about the country in a positive context, such as sports. Trying to stem the onslaught of negative news regarding human rights, OPEC etc. But what do I know, I’m not a doctor
Again, sport in the US mostly own by corporation. Every other country, would host many events, yet when the Saudi do it, it is a sportswashing. What funny is, sport never stopped people from ignoring any other acts the saudi do. Which make this more like people crying because someone else have more money and willing to spend it on these activities taking them away from the US.
The reason it is sports washing is because they have human rights abuses to be hidden. If you shred documents because they have your personal information on it, it fine. If you shred documents because they are evidence of a crime, then that is obstruction of justice. Same principle applies here.
I think the idea is that people talk about the country in a positive context, such as sports. Trying to stem the onslaught of negative news regarding human rights, OPEC etc. But what do I know, I’m not a doctor