the degree of sportswashing that Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent the other theocratic oil petrostates) has pulled off in the past few years really, to me, demonstrates how… i dunno… far off the mark (for lack of a better wording) the moral panic about China’s influence in the global economy is generally? in a lot of ways these governments are worse, but there’s been generously 1/1000th the outrage about how impossible they’ve made it for someone to actually divest from things they own. often it falls to fans and individuals to drum up outrage–and like, that’s not gonna work here, lol. they don’t care.
the degree of sportswashing that Saudi Arabia (and to a lesser extent the other theocratic oil petrostates) has pulled off in the past few years really, to me, demonstrates how… i dunno… far off the mark (for lack of a better wording) the moral panic about China’s influence in the global economy is generally? in a lot of ways these governments are worse, but there’s been generously 1/1000th the outrage about how impossible they’ve made it for someone to actually divest from things they own. often it falls to fans and individuals to drum up outrage–and like, that’s not gonna work here, lol. they don’t care.