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Iran's football team shows actual bravery at World Cup · The Slippery Slope

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  Hi, I'm Jeff Allen. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope. So the FIFA World Cup is
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  currently being played out in Qatar and there's been lots and
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  lots and lots of drama going on. It all seems to revolve more
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  around the lgbtq+ issues in the nation, the fact that
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  homosexuality is, is illegal in Qatar.
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  It seems to be a bigger news story than the the football.
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  Itself, which seems a little strange.
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  But anyway, I want to run through a couple of Articles
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  here and just talk about well, with this talk about bravery and
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  what we consider to be bravery these days.
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  So this first article came through today, after all, it's
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  come here just after what's happened with the German Japan
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  game? Now, the headline says FIFA make
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  decision on Germany protest. Over World Cup, gesture over
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  one, love armband. So FIFA Pierre.
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  To have decided, they will not punish Germany for the gesture
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  before their World Cup Clash against Japan in group E on
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  Wednesday. So that made this gesture before
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  the Japan Japanese the game against Japan.
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  So the side were pictured covering their mouths.
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  In reaction to the one love campaign armband being met with
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  possible sporting sanctions. So the campaign was backed by
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  several Nations National size to try and raise awareness. - of
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  the lack of human rights for lgbtq plus people in host
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  nation, Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal.
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  Well, golly gee. So what's happened is the
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  picture, the sporting players, you know, they've got them,
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  they've got their their hands over their, mouths are covering
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  their mouths in the gesture. So that's their their little
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  protest. They made this picture took this
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  picture before the game, may I suggest that maybe they should
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  have focused more. On the game against Japan and
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  then they wouldn't have lost. So miserably, so going on in
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  this report, it says we can't put our players in a position
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  where they could face sporting sanctions, including bookings, a
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  joint statement from the sides read.
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  So we have asked the captain is not to wear the armbands in
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  game. So what they're talking about
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  here, I'm going to go to another article, okay?
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  And that is this article. Headline says, World Cup teams
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  will not wear rainbow armbands after A FIFA threatens yellow
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  cart. Got a threat for a yellow card,
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  scary stuff. So they all back down.
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  So going in it says seven, major European soccer teams backed off
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  from their plans to allow their team captains to a wear armbands
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  showing support for minority groups, including lgbtq
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  individuals at the ongoing World Cup in Qatar, after FIFA
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  threatened to issue yellow cards against players.
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  Hi. Adding to Global bodies latest
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  attempts to push back against efforts to draw, attention to
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  Human Rights abuses and discrimination in the host
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  country. Now, let's be honest, the only
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  the only discrimination that the media really seem to care about
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  is the Discrimination about the ability for people to sleep.
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  With whomever, they would like to sleep with that seems to be
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  the only human, right. You know, because apparently we
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  all seem to be defined. Well, if you believe the media,
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  and if you believe the lgbtq community everyone, these days
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  is defined by by their sexuality, by their sex life, by
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  who they choose or what they choose whom they choose to sleep
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  with apparently that's what defines Us in every aspect of
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  our lives these days. And the thing is that these
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  football players were all being Bribed as you know, standing up
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  for the rights of other people standing up for human rights,
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  standing up for lgbtq rights, described as being brave, except
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  as soon as they got threatened with the yellow card, The
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  Bravery Slipped Away. They all started trembling at
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  the knees, and it was decided, what?
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  Maybe we can't afford to get a yellow card because it's all too
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  scary. Who wants a yellow card?
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  Yellow card made him tremble. But can I give you an example of
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  actual actual bravery from a football team.
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  This headline here, he says, Iran soccer team stages silent
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  protest at World Cup. So Irene's top football player
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  players are the latest public figures to show their support
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  for the country's anti-government protests.
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  The team refused to sing Iran's national anthem at the soccer
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  World Cup in Qatar in a move that could see players arrested
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  and jailed when they returned home.
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  Now, my point with this is that this is actual bravery.
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  Players stating that they want to put on a pretty colorful
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  little armband and then backing down when they get threatened
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  with the yellow card. That's not bravery.
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  Okay. It's not bravery because there's
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  nothing real on the line and as soon as they were threatened
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  with something pretty, you know, pretty pathetic.
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  Really a yellow card. They all back down because
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  they're not brave. This is actual bravery at the
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  moment. There has been there have been
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  In Iran where people are actually losing their lives,
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  people get arrested, go to jail, they get beaten up others, get
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  killed, that's his bravery standing up for things that
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  actually matter standing up and putting your life on the line,
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  standing up against a tyrannical, government and not
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  backing down, looking a tyrannical government in the
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  eye. And saying you will not back
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  down under threat of your own life.
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  That is bravery this football team from Iran.
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  They are brave. These are the little pathetic
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  losers who came in and said, you know, we want to wear a pretty
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  little arm band around their, pretty little arms.
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  And then back down when they were threatened with a little
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  tiny little yellow card, that's not brave, that's pathetic.
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  Iran. That is bravery.
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  That is something worth. While we need to stop describing
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  things as being brave. When it's not, this is real
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  bravery. This is something that they this
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  is real ramifications. Real things on the line, going
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  to take my hat off to these Persian players.
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  This is just my opinion but we need to stop describing things
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  as Brave and start using our language properly.
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  True bravery from the Iranian football players.
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  That's my opinion. Thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope.