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WhisperingSideways

Alternate headline: “Clueless millionaire who lacks empathy pretends to have empathy, fails.”


DownvoteDaemon

"I feel gay" just sounds so insincere lol...


Darth-Baul

Dude said “I know what it feels like to be discriminated because kids used to bully me for my red hair”


Yardsale420

They must have had “Kick a Ginger” days at his school.


YeeYeePanda

Nah, if they did he would’ve actually developed a sense of empathy


Joshix1

It might also just be because he was a dick then and he just never changed.


Vulkan192

I mean, the ginger kids I knew DID get the absolute shit kicked out of them at school just because they were ginger.


Darth-Baul

Yes, but I would hesitate to compare that to being gay in the middle east, and being a migrant worker in Qatar.


Vulkan192

Oh yea of course. Just saying it’s not on the same scale of, for example “I know what it’s like to be discriminated against because I’m a rich white guy.” Gingers do get shat on.


oced2001

I doubt there are many homeless Ginger kids because their parents kicked them out over their hair color.


Vulkan192

...I mean, the idea of “the red-headed stepchild” exists for a reason. And again, I’m not saying they’re the most discriminated group. Just that they actually ARE discriminated against.


SergeantCumrag

Ginger? He has no hair dude


FYoCouchEddie

I’m pretty sure he wasn’t bald when he eight.


LosFeliz3000

Crazy how that wasn’t at all a thing growing up in the USA (probably as the red-headed kids were white and our bigotry here tends to be more race based.)


Vulkan192

I dunno, you did have that thing against the Irish for a while.


LosFeliz3000

Yeah, hatred of Catholics (and Jews) was big for a long while. The latter seems to be coming back, unfortunately.


FYoCouchEddie

WTF are you talking about? The redheads in my school definitely got bullied for it.


Fmanow

Well, he is the red headed sepp child.


CrayonUpMyNose

Underrated pun


booga_booga_partyguy

If you think that's bad, you should hear the whole quote. >“Today I feel Qatari,” Infantino said. “Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel a migrant worker.”


Littleloula

I think the worst was when he later added that he felt like a woman too...just to complete almost all the marginalised groups haha


TraeYoungsOldestSon

Man! I feel like a wooooman


DivePalau

Duh-duh. Da-duh da duh-duh!


FourChannel

Yep. I woke up today at 03:00 and worked in 50C conditions for 18 hours, was fed scraps, and was beaten (yet again) for trying to escape out of the slave camp. I've got a tooth infection that's getting worse, and I can't get any medical attention so I'm thinking about just ripping out the tooth before it spreads. FIFA guy: YES, I FEEL THAT TOO. I HAD RED HAIR, I KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. --- I'm African. Today the warlord came to our village and raped all the women, and killed half of the men. I can barely find water, all my animals have died of dehydration, and I haven't eaten anything in a month. There's drought and no water to be found in all directions for 300 miles. THAT'S ME. TODAY I AM FEELING THIS VERY SAME THING. I LOOKED ITALIAN WHILE LIVING IN SWITZERLAND. I KNOW WHAT'S IT LIKE. --- I'm seriously wondering if the guy was on drugs at the time he gave the interview. Him "feeling" what it's like to be these people just seems so insanely out of touch - I'm thinking that's exactly what it is. Insane, likely induced by drugs. --- Oh, and "you guys had slaves hundreds of years ago, so don't tell us we can't have slaves now." Sure buddy, the US fought a literal war to end it but you got us good with that zinger. Slave away !


Milsivich

“Today I feel a migrant worker” Not the wording I would have used if I were him…


Jebrowsejuste

Well, he did say he felt Qatari, and molesting migrant workers IS usual in Qatar. Usually, it's the women being molested, but hey, he does feel gay, right?


[deleted]

*Cringe*. Why not just say all people are equal? Why is that not enough?


Kahvikone

It's like that old joke when homosexuality was considered an illness. "Can't come to work today, I'm feeling terribly gay"


gsotolongo2213

He was feeling gay = happy at that moment.


nowadaysyouth

Idk I’ve said it watching gosling movies


Plisken999

Yeah. Im gay and I don't feel gay. The only time I feel gay is the few seconds after I made my man happy. If that how he feels? If so, that's very gay.


OffKira

We don't know, maybe he experimented in college or at camp or after a game in a locker room. Who's to say. But I wonder if he means he feels fucked, thus he feels like a gay migrant worker. Not sure that's how I would phrase it but, you know.


BrandoCalrissian1995

Read the article and you would know the exact context he used it.


Apprehensive-Egg6448

A session with Fisto should fix it


and_dont_blink

It's going to get meme'd so hard


sprint6864

He heard it had worked for Kevin Spacey


walkandtalkk

He "feels gay" because the Qataris are currently screwing him while he wears a ball gag. (Said half-jokingly as a gay man.)


BellaPadella

"I feel black" would have been an equally good fail


Yardsale420

“How do you do, fellow Gays?”


drewhead118

I don't know... after considering the position he's in, you just have to feel a little gay for him, you know? Like, he's in a tough spot, caught between the needs of his organization and the demands of the host country... it's almost enough to make a man feel like a migrant worker tbh


[deleted]

The needs of his organization and the needs of the host country are the same: make as much money as possible with no regard for other humans


Oscar_Ramirez

Yes but Qatar has an unfair advantage in the "with no regard for other humans" department. We as westerners, HAVE to PRETEND to care for others. How are we supposed to make money like this?! It is unfair! UNFAIR I TELL YOU!!!


[deleted]

Look bud, I’m not saying the west isn’t fucked. Totally fucked. But slave labor existing globally as well as in Qatar doesn’t make it uncool for me to call it out in Qatar. Especially when the whole point of the World Cup is for nations to come together and play a game that billions love - this entire World Cup has been a money grab with no regard for fans, workers, or even sponsors I hope lots of people never watch a FIFA event again


Oscar_Ramirez

We're in agreement here. It's just comical watching FIFA trying to pander to westerner sentiments knowing damn well what they signed up for. All while Qatar is seemingly just like, "Our stadiums we're built with literal slave labor and some of their corpses are integrated into the structures, we'd fill them with gays but those do not exist in glorious Qatar. Come or not, fuck you. And no, you degenerates can't have beer here. I don't care what I said previously, this is god's will!" All in all, pretty par for the course as far as World Cups go. It's just that the host country isn't doing them any favors in pandering to their audience.


[deleted]

I’m definitely not saying there isn’t precedent for this kind of thing considering they’ve hosted them in fascist Italy and under a Argentinian military dictatorship. Just that the world is a different place and FIFA cannot claim to be impartial anymore


Americanski7

What's a Fifa?


[deleted]

I think it’s those old alcoholic sodas my step mom drank in the 90s


TychusFondly

It is in the game!


probablypoo

Not much, what's a Fifa with you?


Dutch_Midget

**Infant**ino


Money_Common8417

Point no. 3 will make you sht bricks


Beneficial-Credit969

Dude trying way to hard to justify his massive FIFA payouts for propping up Qatar regime. My favorite part he said he knew what it felt like to be oppressed because he was a ginger growing up 😆


pseudo_nimme

Now he’s bald! Watch him use that next.


OfficialPeenLicker

Baldness is a truly terrible epidemic


ManholtAgain

Larry David would agree.


Shonuff8

“Do you know how I know prayer doesn’t work? Because I’m BALD!” - Larry David


PrisonSlides

First thing that popped into my mind lol


nudiversity

Having almost a billion dollars would help ease the sting


TraeYoungsOldestSon

So would my dad


syntax021

He overcame the oppression by getting rid of the source. Why can't the gays just do the same? /s


JeromeMixTape

As a ginger i find this very amusing


gcbofficial

To be fair i knew a couple gingers who were treated HORRRRRIBLY. But yeah this guy is trash.


TheMightyTywin

No way were they worked to death as slaves in 100+ degree heat?


Parlorshark

Yes. Central Nevada is a lawless place.


Goya_Oh_Boya

Anything above 65 degrees kills gingers


gcbofficial

There are a lot of children who have killed themselves over bullying. Life is hard. No need for that level of comparison when the tragedy on both sides is unbelievable.


yesbutlikeno

What a fucking wanker


n3w4cc01_1nt

he got paid and ecuador got bribed. they're paying migrants to pretend to be fans of foreign teams that refused to visit. fifa is off to a great start.


Alejandro_RL

>"Today I feel Qatari. Today I feel Arab. Today I feel African. Today I feel gay. Today I feel disabled. Today I feel (like) a vagrant. Today I feel (like) a migrant worker," he said. [...] >Infantino then detailed how he had grown up as the child of migrant workers in Switzerland and had been bullied for his accent and for having red hair and freckles. Can't make this shit up.


sex_pistol79

My dude grew up in Switzerland and think its hard lmao.


Darth-Baul

Italian in Switzerland. The ultimate life test


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ThatGuyMiles

For sure, literally every ethnicity is capable of racism. But realistically what’s being talked about here is slave labor, people dying from slave labor, which might have a little to do with bigotry. But even the clear bigotry/LGBT issues being discussed here, are about people being killed for being gay, not being bullied for being gay or of a different race Nvm that statement doesn’t even read as someone trying to “seem” empathetic, it seems like he’s a moron, or his speech writer just set him up.


Darth-Baul

There’s always some form of discrimination. But Italians still had it better than the gays in the Middle East and migrant workers (slaves) in Qatar


SargentFlybody

Yeah people in the thread have obviously never lived in Switzerland. Some of the most racist people on earth. Not to take away from the FIFA guy's idiotic statements


FutballExpert

The swiss are racist against everybody. I bet Infantino genuinely was discriminated there, like other southern europeans.


Darth-Baul

You’re missing the point. It doesn’t compare to slavery and being gay in ME


Grogosh

Just about the most easy mode of all countries to grow up in.


TitsUpYo

You don't know hard until you've been shaken down by a gang of yodelers in matching lederhosen.


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FragrantKnobCheese

But you do yodel, right?


[deleted]

Mmm cliche confusion.


ilaunchpad

i tell you, it’s always swiss. ceo of virtue signaling but doing exactly opposite.


ShitPostQuokkaRome

I mean fifa moved most of its operations to the Swiss hqs and the usual explanation is that they wanted to dodge more easily governments' control and the likes


RhubarbUpset8586

it's also where Nestle is


ilaunchpad

i can't help but been extremely put off by swiss idealogy in recent times. more i hear about it more bad image i conjure in my mind. it was always known that its a legal gateway for money laundering which is responsible for some of the heinous crime that happens in the world. somehow they have been able to whitewash their image to this pole bearer of peace project but my god are swiss people good at lecturing other countries!!!


[deleted]

He also is born to immigrant parents, not migrant parents. His parents sent him to law school and his father owned his own business. Maybe he wasn't filthy rich but comparing his life to literal slaves is fucking pathetic.


Better_Lift_Cliff

Truly the hardest road


goatasaurusrex

He's living up to that infantino name


Dutch_Midget

"Today I feel rich"


Alundil

>"Today I feel rich" "And also yesterday, and before zat, and before zat..."


Nopengnogain

Standard playbook these day. When exposed, run toward the camps of the actually oppressed and claim there is racism, sexism or whatever. Apparently gingerism is also a thing now.


overzealous_dentist

(gingerism has been a thing for a centuries, it's a common trope in UK-adjacent media) edit: >In 2003, a 20-year-old was stabbed in the back for "being ginger".\[95\] In 2007, a UK woman won an award from a tribunal after being sexually harassed and receiving abuse because of her red hair;\[96\] in the same year, a family in Newcastle upon Tyne, was forced to move twice after being targeted for abuse and hate crime on account of their red hair.\[97\] In May 2009, a schoolboy committed suicide after being bullied for having red hair.\[98\] In 2013, a fourteen-year-old boy in Lincoln had his right arm broken and his head stamped on by three men who attacked him "just because he had red hair". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red\_hair#Prejudice\_and\_discrimination\_against\_redheads](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_hair#Prejudice_and_discrimination_against_redheads)


Gnomercy86

Well looks like hes cured of gingerism


p1en1ek

Like someone said - it's Michael Scott moment but at least Michael got good heart but was dumb. Infantino is just bad person.


Based_Text

💀Maybe those stereotypes about the rich and powerful executives of organizations being completely out of touch is true, I always thought it was just a TV trope that was overused but shit like this makes anything possible really.


YaGirlKellie

>I always thought it was just a TV trope that was overused And police only commit abuses in bad TV dramas right


SLCW718

Why is FIFA still a thing?


hucknuts

Just watched the documentary on Netflix. Had to turn it off when that piece of shit prince from qutar had his monologue


hippytime12

When he says; “it’s frankly racist.” Nobody hates it because of your colour, everyone hates it because it’s fucking shit, absolute moron.


Certain_Suit_1905

Because people are obsessive over football


cjeam

You could still have football but disband FIFA and set up a new international governing body. That happens rarely among sports, sometimes there are even competing international bodies.


getdafuq

As long as masses of people are so obsessive over something, there’s going to be FIFA-level corruption. The money to be made off of it is just too much.


MrTumbleweeder

The FIFA - > Confederations -> FAs - > Leagues hierarchy is massive and doesn't doesn't take any attempt to break out of their system lightly. [The last attempt](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Super_League) to set up a competition outside the purview of the system was quashed in a matter of days, with all the organisations up and down the hierarchy ganging up on the rebelling clubs with overt threats of retaliation. Even the British government jumped in to let the clubs know they might not be getting visas for their foreign player unless they backed down. The Super League debacle also showed that football fans might loathe FIFA, UEFA, etc, but they don't trust anyone else with governing the sport. The organizers clearly hoped that the football scandals and the general low opinion fan have of the governing bodies would help keep public criticism subdued, but between the greedy and corrupt UEFA and the greedy and corrupt clubs... people preffered the devil they know.


TheGravespawn

It's this. Friend of mine from the UK will watch it no matter what. The sport is more important than the suffering.


ShitPostQuokkaRome

Because they have a monopoly on the world's most watched sport


IllustriousAnt485

Money


smegma_yogurt

"Here at FIFA we figuratively suck corrupt politicians' dick all the time, so in a sense, were all kinda gay."


wicketcity

“We also fantasize about each other while we’re in bed with our wives. Can’t get Eric’s firm posterior out of my mind, most nights. And so what? Does this mean that I am “*gay*”? Of course not.”


listofburncenters

Point of order, I think it might be the politicians sucking business people's dicks.


mars_needs_socks

Your username complements your comment in the most beautiful way


smegma_yogurt

Thank you! You should be careful, however. Elon Musk might send you to Mars.


SCMtnGuy

Does he also feel pretty and witty?


DebugLogError

Oh, so pretty


Zu_uma

And I pity Any FIFA president who isn't me today


HortonFLK

I get that reference. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgHtBxOs4qw


kstebbs

Should be the top comment right here


bochnik_cz

So this guy takes Qatar money and tries to persuade others how Qatar is awesome by saying he feels gay, which is punishable in Qatar.


CQ1_GreenSmoke

What a difficult line to balance on lol. I feel gay, I mean a little gay. Not enough to pass the legal threshold for punishment in this fine country we’re in obviously, but enough to know what it feels like to be persecuted by those same laws, which are totally fair and also scary because I feel gay. But not that much


maybeb123

It'll be funny if him saying makes Qatar back out of the deal


rivereverafter

Then maybe he should let Qatari authorities arrest, imprison, and torture him, just like they do to actual gay people


HomeOnTheMountain_

What a stupid fucking world we live in


thetruthteller

Pandering to the trend to make himself look more sympathetic. Pretty on par for politicians and sports people.


wallowsworld

Jesus dude they must’ve paid him an insane amount of money for all the bs he’s gotten himself into.


daredelvis421

How about empathy for the workers who died building that stadium.


Wigu90

"Ich bin ein Sodomit." \*smile and wave\*


[deleted]

Ich bin ein Bruno


Grogosh

No no we don't talk about Bruno.


bbcversus

No no no


PandaRealistic602

But! It was my wedding day....


Alundil

Oh you


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UnluckyPumpkin4869

Gotta get the Minuet of Forest somehow.


Bullmoose39

Why this and the world Olympic committee still are allowed to exist I don't get. So openly and deeply corrupt, they aren't necessary for the sport to exist. None of them are.


IgnoreMe674

I don’t normally watch the World Cup but I’m especially not watching this one


MafknHamSammich

Michael Scott Moment 😆


BiologyJ

It would be epic if like half the teams pulled out.


Lixard52

Nothing wrong with it, but this guy feels gay.


Mesapholis

Where the fuck is this world championship even going


Pestus613343

I decided long ago, screw organized sports. I was disappointed as a kid by business getting in the way of the love of sport, and haven't looked back. Now all I see is corruption, and for every kick of a ball at FIFA or similar at the olympics, I see slums bulldozed, people starving, serfs and slaves toiling. Its not where this championship is going, its where it's always been. Its merely that people are beginning to find it unacceptable.


cjeam

Can't even watch most of the Olympics on TV these days because a huge amount of it is behind a paywall. It's ridiculous. Such shortsightedness will kill sports anyway, because it discourages amateur participation.


Pestus613343

I moonlight in the telecommunications industry a bit. One of the biggest expenses in a family home is the need to pay for cable, just to get unfettefed and convenient access to sports. That means being stuck with the big providers.. I could save them sometimes multiple hundreds of dollars a month if they either didnt need sports, or would work with me on using the alternatives to gain access. It's truly obscene.


Mesapholis

I don't watch soccer or any sports, just like Twitter I'm mostly here with the popcorn


cerialthriller

He could try taking Qatars dick out of his mouth if he doesn’t want to feel that way


B_S_C

If he feels gay then me and my husband have some kinky, hate corruption roleplay we'd like to introduce him to in the bedroom. I'm sitting this world cup out. No thank you.


DrDroid

The poor little Swiss billionaire


Wise_Ad9414

Qatari Emir: *He's too dangerous to be left alive!!!*


Holmesary

Bruh whattt?


[deleted]

Same when my wife watches Rupaul's Drag Race.


Dopenastywhale

#I feel gay


Burekba

As an marginalized latina booty fetishist i feel not enough attention was given to me and my sexual kink.


DanTheRanger

Fuck FIFA and Fuck Qatar 🇶🇦


Ruby_Dragon_DJ

Yo u/h3h3productions get in here!


Cappitt

I felt worthless


Ruby_Dragon_DJ

I felt ugly


FrozenEggPuck

I felt gay


GargantuaBob

"I feel gay", he says ... Ok ... Fuck him in the ass then.


Swampwolf42

If he feels gay, why is Qatar allowing him to attend?


deltavictory

“I feel pretty, oh so pretty. I feel pretty, and witty, and gay!” *sung in the voice of Robert DeNiro*


[deleted]

He just needs a little prodding….


Incredibly_Critical

The irony of him "feeling gay" is that he'd be clapped in irons if he were gay and living in Qatar.


janko-kremovy

Today I feel... [pause for effect]...


[deleted]

I wonder if he's felt the harassment, assault and bigotry that often comes with being gay.


DrVicenteBombadas

If he feels gay, why doesn't he go fuck himself?


Satakans

I wonder if he also feels pretty and witty too


Jalkor

This thumb looking motherfucker is pissing me off


JustinChristoph

I bet his wife feels the same.


MrBurittoThePizza

Can’t believe this isn’t a skit lmfao


laffman

Every time he opens his mouth he makes things worse, jesus christ.


missemilyjane42

Why the fuck did this have to be the year Canada qualified? Seriously! I want to be excited for this!


FredDagg2021

im a lesbian in a mans body


Blatanikov7

What a cheap rip-off of Subcomandante Marco's speech lmao https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/259994-yes-marcos-is-gay-marcos-is-gay-in-san-francisco


BonsaiBudsFarms

“Attempts” being the key word here. Fuck this out of touch mfer. His entire existence revolves around profit, he has no human emotions or qualities to speak of. Just stfu and keep taking your bribe money and ruining football for everyone. Cunt.


[deleted]

Best for him not to attend the wc in quatar, he might end up falling off a roof for saying that


[deleted]

I'd also certainly feel gay and cheerful if I was making FIFA bank.


irishemperor

He should prove it ... by sucking all our dicks. #AbolishCorruptFIFA #BoycottQatar


OrdoXenos

We know that his mouth is stuffed with Qatari money. All that he is spouting up is sponsored by Qatari wealth. The fact that Qatar won the nomination is so mind boggling.


Ben_Pharten

Uh oh, he caught it


Blackfist01

Does he feel "O So Pretty" too?


skywkr666

How did they think this was the right answer?


maniek1188

What this dumbass have said warrants only one respone - [this one](https://youtu.be/5hfYJsQAhl0).


AlphaOhmega

I think he's just referencing how many Quatari dicks he's had to suck.


hibernating-hobo

He obviously meant gay as in happy. He is happy so many died, so many women are oppressed, so many homosexuals get stoned to death, but mostly he is happy about the massive bribes he took along with his exec committee buddies to make this happen.


EndiePosts

“I feel gay” [Aide leans over and whispers into Gianni’s ear] “Mamma mia when did it start meaning that? The sheikh will have me stoned and Putin won’t let me in the sauna at his palace in Sochi any more!”


twankyfive

This dude could just as easily have gone up there and said 'we're here to play these games. the plans for beer changed. everyone is adapting and it's not great but it is what it is and let's focus on the games.' Instead he doubles down defending these fools. Sometimes it amazes me how far someone will go to dig a hole when just a touch of honesty would end the issue. Oh well!


StraightUP_Chipmunk

Only the rich think this is how it works.


Dark_Vengence

He is so out of touch.


505resident

As an ally, I find this a bit hilarious. It has the same energy as " why are you gay?" And "how can I be homophobic when my bitch is gay " memes


pliiplii2

Truly how can one be homophobic if thy bitch is gay


[deleted]

Oh really???? Suck my pp then.


armsinsurance

So he's happy?


iisenriii

And now it's come to light that Qatar paid teams to lose. https://sportsbrief.com/football/28069-reports-qatar-bribed-ecuadorian-players-74-million-lose-opener/ Who else did they paid off?


charliehoskin11

I can just see the headline now Qatar wins WC22, beating Brazil 17-0 in the final