China Protests / World Cup

So the World Cup triggered these protests, right? These regular Chinese folks just broke when they saw the entire world (not the West, not America - the WORLD) just partying and watching soccer and living life and they just threw up their likes like "what in the actual fuck?" Amiright?

This brings me back to a thing I keep hearing and it keeps annoying me: the Americans who were feigning guilt about the corruption of Qatar and Fifa, etc. The same types who said they'd leave the United States if George W Bush got reelected, that would leave the US if Donald Trump got elected, and now threatened to - GASP - not watch the World Cup because of Qatar's corruption, the dead building workers, the homophobia of the country (I guess Americans don't realize there are 1 billion Muslims who basically share in this belief along with hundreds of millions of Christians, and Hindu's - so we should what? Refuse to talk to them?)

Here's news for those people: Qatar is a country with a population about the size of the Westside of Los Angeles. It is a tiny spec of dust that matters in terms of global affairs not one single IOTA!

Fifa is corrupt, of course! Is it that much more corrupt than the NCAA? Do I hear any of these people protesting college football every single goddamn weekend of the fall? No.

And let me remind these folks of the last two settings of the World Cup and Olympics - Russia and China - arguably the two most corrupt, autocratic, and most importantly - significant countries in the world. China has locked up in prison more Uighurs than the entire population of Qatar. 

My point: get some FUCKING perspective here people.  

And I'm not saying I - or anyone - could've predicted the World Cup would lead to a protest movement in China - but it has. And this protest movement might end up being one of the most significant events of our century. On the scale of "what matters" the situation in China is like a Blue Whale whereas Qatar's sloppy construction practices is equivalent to an ant.