Super Bowl
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Super Bowl is a recurring event in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 24, 2021 and February 25, 2021. The archive places it in contexts such as “Super Bowl parties are a working-class custom”; ""67% of US families watch the Super Bowl…"". It most often appears alongside Akron, Berkeley, Donald Trump.
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- Category: Events
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 24, 2021
- Last seen: February 25, 2021
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- Akron (2 shared issues)
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- Berkeley (2 shared issues)
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- Donald Trump (2 shared issues)
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- McDonalds (2 shared issues)
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- Tampa (2 shared issues)
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- Twitter (2 shared issues)
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- 1950s (1 shared issues)
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- 1980s (1 shared issues)
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- 1983 (1 shared issues)
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- 2020er (1 shared issues)
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- ADIDAS (1 shared issues)
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- Albemarle (1 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
For example, apparently Super Bowl parties are a working-class custom. And apparently it's an middle-to-upper-middle-class custom to make fun of Super Bowl parties, either throwing them ironically or not at all. Even in 1983, Fussell describes "the satiric anti-Super Bowl party" among the middle class, where people deliberately get together on Super Bowl Sunday to conspicuously not watch sports and feel superior. This hits a little closer to home than the rhododendrons. Or: contempt for clothing with obvious brand names on it (eg a jacket that says ADIDAS in big letters) is apparently a middle-class reaction to a working-class preference for this sort of product. Or: your list of "grammatical pet peeves" is a suspiciously good match for the differences between the upper-middle-class dialect and the working class dialect (whether you keep a distinction between "less" and "fewer", for example). Also, I regret to inform you that the dead hand of Paul Fussell is reaching out all the way from 1983 to tell you that your contempt for people who overuse apostrophes is a class signaling game.
Inline links: your contempt for people who overuse apostrophes
67% of US families watch the Super Bowl - what percent of New York Times editors and reporters do? 20% of Americans go to religious services weekly - how many of those work for the New York Times? How come 96% of political donations from journalists go to Democrats? Your job is to take a page from the Democratic playbook and insist there is no reason any of this could be true except systemic classism, that any other explanation is offensive, and it's the upper-class media's moral duty to do something about this immediately. Until they do so you are absolutely justified in ignoring them and trusting less bigoted and exclusionary sources (I hear Substack is pretty good!)