Spellbreakers Ep. 173: The Racial Politics of the World Cup
Host Matt Trump kicks off a strangely "off" day (a suspected credit card scam, a dead remote camera, and possibly six aligning planets) before diving into his real fascination: the World Cup as a shadow play about race. Fresh off the Gart conference and armed with a running screen share, he walks through how different national teams embody wildly different racial philosophies, from France's "imperial all star" squad drawn from former colonies to ethnically homogeneous Norway and its Viking rowers, plus overachieving Cape Verde and a very quotable Argentina.
Along the way he riffs on nation…
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