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The World Cup.
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9 recorded statements, the most serious of them threatening. Across 3 countries.
Statements. Nothing to check, so these carry a severity instead.
A riot with about two dozen arrests became an argument for deporting four generations of Dutch citizens.
Who it targetsDutch citizens of Moroccan descent, including people born and raised in the Netherlands
An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.
Who it targetsMuslims as a whole
A sitting party leader answered a photo of players praying with an obscenity about God.
Who it targetsMuslims, by way of the Moroccan squad’s prayer
Scandinavian fans looked well behaved on television, and that became a claim about who else the country lets in.
Who it targetsImmigrants generally, set against the Norwegians and Swedes held up as the good kind
A referee decision against Egypt turned into a claim that Jews run FIFA.
Who it targetsJewish people, through “Zionists” standing in for them
A joke about the 2030 World Cup put Israeli soldiers on the pitch shooting people in the face.
Who it targetsJewish people and Israelis, through Israel and the IDF used interchangeably
The American squad was announced, and one post treated the 26 names as a choice between two racial stereotypes.
Who it targetsBlack and Hispanic players on the roster, and by extension Black and Hispanic Americans
A podcast covered a birthright citizenship ruling as a win for what it called the Third World.
Who it targetsImmigrants and their American-born children
A 2014 column arguing that soccer viewership proves the wrong people were let in got republished mid-tournament.
Who it targetsImmigrants and their American-born descendants
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