Update: they’re no longer offering this promotion. Blaming the ‘fun police’ and cancel culture. Ironic given the state policing of the country they’re celebrating.
There is a piece on the Athletic this week about the treatment of LGBT in Saudi. Maybe instead of watching the game, they can force gay men to masturbate while watching gay porn and be forced to vomit when ejaculating, so that they associate being gay with vomiting and they suddenly stop being gay.
Or if that is too vile for them, maybe they can just flog everyone who comes into the bar and then jail them for a year.
We all have known down the years how bad Saudi is and we've been unable to do anything about it, as we are powerless to stop our Governments trading arms for oil with them, but it is unacceptable to actively participate in their sportswashing, as they try to divert their revenue streams away from oil.
There are comments in the piece from Saudis, a woman has accused the PL of pinkwashing, by promoting the rainbow laces campaign while allowing the takover and Ali al-Ahmed, a Saudi scholar based in the States says you cannot blame people who are ignorant, like you wouldn't blame your car for not being able to go to space, but the PL are to blame by allowing the sale.
