d_henderson1810
Mid-Card Championship Winner
This post is a little late, because I have had a busy week and little time to post, and I didn't think of this until after the event.
I noticed that wrestlers pulled out of "Crown Jewel" and some reviewers refused to review the show, out of protest.
Now, I am not defending the Saudi govt for a minute. But, why are there all these boycotts and protests now, rather than back in May, when WWE toured?
Why, because a journalist got killed.
It is bad when anyone is murdered. But the amount of publicity concerning this event makes me wonder if the media talk about how bad it is because it was a fellow journalist who got killed?
I mean, if it had been a Christian missionary, or a politician, would there be the same outrage towards Saudi Arabia?
I wonder if it isn't so much the act, as to the profession of the victim of the act. Killing a journo goes to the essence of a threat to free speech and freedom of the press, and of course the media would be outraged about it, as it rocks the foundations of what they do every day.
John Cena boycotted "Crown Jewel", yet wrestled at "Greatest Royal Rumble", and even said what a great country Saudi Arabia is. Then, just months later, he boycotts it. Daniel Bryan wrestles at "GRR" but not at "CJ", out of protest. Reviewers reviewed "Greatest Royal Rumble", but not "Crown Jewel".
Now, people are upset about Saudi Arabia's human rights record, their treatment of females (and how they demand that WWE are not allowed to have females wrestle at PPVs in their country), and their treatment of homosexuals. But all those things were happening long before WWE set foot in the country. Those things were happening in May this year, as well as November this year. The only major thing that has sparked this outrage is the death of the journalist, and I wonder if the media have an agenda to talk more about it, because it is someone from their profession.
Cena and Bryan still wrestled in Saudi Arabia, and people still reviewed it, back in May, when women were excluded and the human rights record was just as shocking. But now, suddenly, 8 months later, now people protest and boycott. Critics tolerated GRR, but outright shunned CJ, when all that has changed in the country is a journalist being killed.
Also, I notice no-one pointed out the fact that Renee Young, a female, was on commentary at "Crown Jewel", making the number of females at Saudi PPVs one more than GRR.
I noticed that wrestlers pulled out of "Crown Jewel" and some reviewers refused to review the show, out of protest.
Now, I am not defending the Saudi govt for a minute. But, why are there all these boycotts and protests now, rather than back in May, when WWE toured?
Why, because a journalist got killed.
It is bad when anyone is murdered. But the amount of publicity concerning this event makes me wonder if the media talk about how bad it is because it was a fellow journalist who got killed?
I mean, if it had been a Christian missionary, or a politician, would there be the same outrage towards Saudi Arabia?
I wonder if it isn't so much the act, as to the profession of the victim of the act. Killing a journo goes to the essence of a threat to free speech and freedom of the press, and of course the media would be outraged about it, as it rocks the foundations of what they do every day.
John Cena boycotted "Crown Jewel", yet wrestled at "Greatest Royal Rumble", and even said what a great country Saudi Arabia is. Then, just months later, he boycotts it. Daniel Bryan wrestles at "GRR" but not at "CJ", out of protest. Reviewers reviewed "Greatest Royal Rumble", but not "Crown Jewel".
Now, people are upset about Saudi Arabia's human rights record, their treatment of females (and how they demand that WWE are not allowed to have females wrestle at PPVs in their country), and their treatment of homosexuals. But all those things were happening long before WWE set foot in the country. Those things were happening in May this year, as well as November this year. The only major thing that has sparked this outrage is the death of the journalist, and I wonder if the media have an agenda to talk more about it, because it is someone from their profession.
Cena and Bryan still wrestled in Saudi Arabia, and people still reviewed it, back in May, when women were excluded and the human rights record was just as shocking. But now, suddenly, 8 months later, now people protest and boycott. Critics tolerated GRR, but outright shunned CJ, when all that has changed in the country is a journalist being killed.
Also, I notice no-one pointed out the fact that Renee Young, a female, was on commentary at "Crown Jewel", making the number of females at Saudi PPVs one more than GRR.