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What I’m reading
I avoided the World Cup, which was not easy given that the tournament seemed to grab hold of even this soccer-averse nation. I won’t pretend I was doing so solely on principle. The Qatari human rights record certainly was a central element, but so was my general ignorance of soccer. In any case, there is a good column in The Guardian by Pete Pattison on the Qatari record, its attempt to recast criticism as racism (taking a page from Israel, and “the real scandal,” which was “not that the criticism of Qatar is racially motivated, but that the men who built this tournament have been subjected to a labour system based largely on racial discrimination.”
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Author: hankkalet
Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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