“Demands for equality, dignity and compensation cannot be treated as some sort of culture war – they are universal human rights that FIFA has committed to respect in its own statutes,” Amnesty International spokesperson Steve Cockburn As a sports ethics keynote speaker and sports ethics consultant, I suppose I am hypersensitive to deflection. For example, a muscular NFL running back beats his fiancé senseless and unconscious, then claims she instigated it by spitting on him during the pre-beatdown argument. Deflection may be a tool commonly used by the unethical, but […]
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