What is sportswashing exactly?

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The term is thrown around regularly these days but what is it? A type of money laundering?

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A country sponsors big sporting events for the prestige, and hopes the prestige and money of holding such events makes people overlook their terrible history of human rights.

They can’t be bad!  They’re hosting the World Cup!  They definitely don’t have a history of slaves and genocide.  If they did, the World Cup wouldn’t agree to be held there!

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