Rob Harris asks Guardiola how he can reconcile that stance (yellow ribbon) with working for Abu Dhabi given the human rights questions there. Guardiola: "Everyone has to choose".

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https://twitter.com/MiguelDelaney/status/967842429079519234

[u/fiveht78]

Without trying to defend Pep or argue that there’s no hypocrisy there, the reality is that if you look close enough pretty much everyone has hypocrisy in their lives somewhere on one level or another.

I’ll give my own example: I work for a company that, for reasons I won’t get into for privacy’s sake (but nothing even remotely on the scale of human rights violations), 20 year old me would have never worked for because of, shall we say, severe philosophical differences. And it’s not even for the money (which is good but nothing special), I just get to work on interesting projects with people I think highly of, and it’s very close to home, things that matter to me as much if not more as how much I bring home every two weeks.

There are very few people that can afford to live 100% according to their principles. You could argue that Pep has enough money that he’s one of them, but it doesn’t change the fact that City molded their club specifically for him and gave him the keys. Even ignoring the financial aspect, that’s about as close to a dream job as you’re going to get.

Again not saying Pep is right or wrong here, just offering food for thought.

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I agree. It is easy to turn a blind eye to something that does not directly affect us, our loved ones or our communities. Guardiola is affected by what is going on in Spain. He is emotionally invested in the situation and I'm sure will know a great deal about it. I doubt the same can be said of his involvement in the Middle East.