Why should Qatar be subjected to a level of scrutiny that's never applied to the US ...

Ah yes the communist talking points, everyone is doing / has done many times over human right's abuses so no one should be called out on it, like yes it's hypocritical that the western press / orgs didn't ban US during it's wars on the middle east and for so many other things, but this person claims to be a socialist, and if you're really a socialist you criticize the deaths of the most exploited workers in the world regardless of whether there is hypocrisy associated with, this is ultimately stands against solidarity with hyper exploited workers and instead stands in solidarity with non western states, reframing the issue as not having to do with thousands of migrant deaths, but rather west vs rest (which Qatar only meets certain metrics of being to begin with) and instead stands with the governments and elites of states like Qatar instead of working people.

Infantino makes an important point ...

No he doesn't he doesn't make any points let alone important ones, he uses an RT style socialist aesthetics anti west in substance argument to justify his own and FIFA's taking of Qatari bribes to ignore his and diminish his organizations culpability in the thousands of migrant deaths, you do not have to hand it to far right actors when they throw out an anti west argument bc it suits them even though they do it only from a place of protecting their own money and power linked to anti west interests.

If the world cup was held in the US ...

No the international community would not call it out, but the international community are not socialists and leftists and their hypocrisy does not and should not inform socialist thought, this is the most vulgar argument you can possibly make on informing your own views, the anti communists believe this so the communists should believe the opposite is not something any serious leftist would try to push as a serious line of thought. The rest of it I won't address as it's basically all, but muh hypocrisy !!! hypocrites !!! which is at best lazy and at worst undercuts actual socialist and positions and international working class solidarity.