“It would be hypocritical of me not to go.”
— NME (@NME) November 18, 2022
Robbie Williams has responded to criticism for being booked to perform at the Qatar World Cup.
“Anybody leaving messages saying ‘no to Qatar’ are doing so on Chinese technology. You get this microscope that goes ‘okay, these are the baddies, and we need to rally against them’… I think that the hypocrisy there is that if we take that case in this place, we need to apply that unilaterally to the world. Then if we apply that unilaterally to the world, nobody can go anywhere”
“I also think that change will take a long time. What we’re saying is: ‘You behave like us, or we will annex you from society. Behave like us, because we’ve got it right’. I don’t condone any abuses of human rights anywhere. But, that being said, if we’re not condoning human rights abuses anywhere, then it would be the shortest tour the world has ever known: I wouldn’t even be able to perform in my own kitchen”.
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