Friday Recap: EPA, Crime Data and Racism

This week: I write about racism and EPA, as does an informative post on the Purple Pain forum. Also, crime data can trick us and Canada is five years behind the US culturally in all the ways that suck

Limited menu of items to link to this week. As per usual, items marked with a ($) are behind a paywall.

My Work

• My piece reviewing the Buccaneers game ($).

• My piece putting out fires ($) after the Eagles game.

  • Also my immediate after-the-game podcast appearance

  • During the game, I was on a live podcast during the second quarter. It was a ton of fun.

  • Before the game, I was on “From the Desk of Master T” on Amazon Prime ($).

• I talked about racism in the NFL ($), especially as it relates to the ownership structure. This is all connected to Jim Trotter’s lawsuit against the NFL.

• I streamed for BR. They gave me this link as a share link.

• I was on a Twitter space with a number of independent creators and Lindsay Rhodes to preview Thursday Night Football on a Twitter space. We’ll be doing this going forward.

Work I Liked (Football)

• This piece over at the Purple Pain Forums went over the Bucs game from an EPA perspective. It has a great explanation of how EPA is calculated too, which I often neglect to do when I talk about it.

• I mentioned racism in the NFL coming from ownership, but Alexander Mattison experienced a form of racism completely independent of that — frustrated fans.

• I will continue recommending Alec Lewis content. Here, he talks about the Vikings running game ($).

• This is a great piece from Kevin Cole on replacing Aaron Rodgers. It’s one of the few probabilistic takes on the situation.

Work I Liked (Non-Football)

• Here’s Liv Agar on the transmission of American culture to Canadian culture ($), particularly in the realm of outrage politics.

  • This piece contains some bangers:

We, as Canadians, are cursed to draw almost all of our cultural energy from our southern neighbours, yet we must emulate them in the most farcical way possible. To understand the general nature of this intra-state cultural influence, think of the asinine attempts by American right wing ‘populists’ to successfully copy Trump’s appeal. Now, imagine this applied to an entire country’s political stage. Canadian politics is a theatre where both left and right are awkwardly miming the actions of their southern counterparts.

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The consequences of this fact, as American cultural influence becomes more and more essential to how Canadians articulate political divisions, are remarkably far reaching, both leading to hilarity, such as in the case of a Canadian man invoking their “first amendment” rights in a Canadian court case, and also rather troubling developments concerning Canada’s most marginalized groups.

• This piece on the rise of gun crime rates in Canada, pursuant to a kickstarted gun culture in Canada as a product of American gun culture, goes into how deceptive official crime statistics can be — and how Canada may still not have a “gun problem” in the way it’s described.

  • This is similar to the oft-cited problem of comparing sexual assault statistics in Sweden to other European countries.