text: Great News: UN Will Fight Racism in Soccer
  Great News: UN Will Fight Racism in Soccer March 30, 2013 by Daniel Greenfield 14 Comments Print This Post
  Some of these days you probably wake up wondering what is the UN good for. Sure they have a nice flag and every now and then they take a photo of themselves next to some hungry kiddies who starve to death as soon as they leave, but can the UN actually do something useful?
  Absolutely, the UN replies to the imaginary question that you didn't ask. The UN can fight racism in soccer.
  The UN has tried to fight genocide. It has tried to fight world hunger. It has tried to fight internal corruption. But now it's going up a target it can take on; soccer hooligans. And if the UN's track records holds steady, everyone in soccer will be completely racist in 5 years while the UN will have doubled its budget.
  The U.N.'s top human rights official has joined some soccer officials and players in calling for an end to racism in sport.
  U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says racist insults and chants, Nazi salutes, petitions against players and denial of hiring based on color are deplorable. She says they're "particularly damaging" because of the importance of sports for young people.
  Can't we all agree that Nazi salutes are bad without the UN getting involved? Is this really a job for the UN? Doesn't the UN already have about a billion actual human rights issues involving mass murder and systematic repression to deal with?
  Has it solved the problem of Islamic Sexism that it can safely move on to holding hearings on "Insert Disliked Football Team of Your Choice" Fans?
  AC Milan midfieder Kevin-Prince Boateng today told the United Nations that racism is a "dangerous disease