I’m a big UFC fan so Saudi Arabia being involved in my media is nothing new. That said, it seems fairly hypocritical for alot of the outspoken comics to participate. Opinions?

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I think it’s really difficult to completely avoid any sort of financial ties with companies or countries that are human rights abusers. I think we need to extend a lot of grace to people who try to continuously improve.

    But when it’s widely known beforehand what accepting a paycheck to perform for a country like this means, but they decide to accept that big paycheck anyway, I think they deserve all the social backlash they get.

    If some performer said that about my country, “no thanks, I won’t perform in the US , whose government is helping fund genocides”, then I would cheer for them for standing on their principles. I wish we saw more of that.