The World Cup is finally upon us and every minority appears to be taking as much of a kicking as the balls as Fifa adopts contortionist levels of bending over backwards to appease its host nation.
With yellow cards threatened for armbands supporting minority love and solidarity; flimflamming over whether people can drink alcohol out loud after the tournament took Budweiser’s boozy shilling; and the sportswashing of the deaths and disabling injuries of construction workers who built the stadia and necessary infrastructure, it’s not really a surprise that disabled people are being talked about by Fifa with the same abhorrent amount of misguidance and contempt as queer people and people of colour.
I’m not even sure it has noticed that it’s running the World Cup on the International Day of People with Disabilities on December 3.
