Anti-Asian Hate, Purity Culture, and Christian Nationalism

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In the wake of the mass shooting of 8 people, 6 of whom were Asian women, Brad ties together the threads of anti-Asian hate, purity culture, and Christian nationalism. Killing half a dozen Asian women and attributing it to sex addiction, not racism, is Christian nationalism in a nutshell: "Purity culture made me feel bad about my sexual needs, so I eliminated the temptation. What does race have to do with that?" (Hint: everything) Purity culture is not simply about sexual "purity." Sexual ethics is a way to slip racial, ethnic, and nationalistic purity into equation. As my co-host says, focusing on the purity of the individual body leads to trying to purify the national body. Purity culture is a step away from a pure national body. A body whose borders are not breached by foreign invaders, including "sexual tempters and those of low morals." If purity culture puts undue pressure on women to remain pure, think about what it does to non-white women who are seen as hyper-sexual seducers not only because of their gender, but also because of their race/ethnicity. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to Straight White American Jesus. My name is Brad Onishi, faculty and religion,
0:19.6	Skidmore College, and our show is hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at UCSB.
0:24.9	Today I want to talk about the events in Georgia where a young man of 21 years old killed
0:34.2	multiple people, including half a dozen Asian women who worked at various massage parlors. As you
0:42.2	can imagine for Asian Americans and those of us in the community, it's a tough day, it's a tough
0:52.1	set of events, there's an immense amount of sadness and anger, and other emotions. I wanted to
0:59.6	talk about how all of this sort of fits together in terms of Christian nationalism, racism,
1:07.5	anti-Asian sediment, and patriarchy. This morning I wrote this on Twitter,
1:14.7	killing half a dozen Asian women and attributing it to sex addiction, not racism,
1:21.4	is Christian nationalism and a nutshell. So somebody could say purity culture made me feel bad
1:26.6	about my sexual needs, so I eliminated the temptation. What does race have to do with that?
1:32.3	What I'm referencing there is that the killer here attributed his actions to sex addiction rather
1:40.1	than to race, and the sheriff in charge of the investigation said today that he had a bad day,
1:49.1	he was tempted by visiting these massage parlors and lashed out after being fed up.
2:00.2	How does this relate to Christian nationalism? Well, let me try to tie those threads together.
2:06.8	Let's start with anti-Asian sediment and anti-Asian racism. This is a long and sorted history
2:13.6	in this country. There's a kind of way that it's covered over in popular culture by the idea that
2:22.2	Asian Americans, especially East Asians, are the modern minority. And the modern minority myth is
2:28.5	used to sort of at times, at least, depict Asian people as the right kind of neighbors.
2:38.2	Good citizens, quiet, hardworking, and a model for all of the other minorities out there.
2:47.7	And yet, at the drop of a hat, as we've seen throughout American history, Asians are used
2:55.5	as scapegoats, as those who are to blame for the country's problems, as a horde infesting the
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