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AXUS Moondy Welcome to It's in the code.

A series is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.

I am your host, Dan Miller, Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College. Happy, as always, to be with you and as always want to start by saying,

thank you for taking the time to listen, for supporting us, for the ideas that flow in.

Keep them coming. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller, S-W-A-J at gmail.com. This series, of course,

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I want to dive right in this week because, you know, my notes are longer.

I need to get longer every week. And so we're going to, we're going to dive in here.

We're continuing our deep dive into the right-wing attack on empathy and exploring the

discourse that claims that what ails American society at root is just too damn much empathy.

Americans, it turns out, just care too much. And that's what's driving America

in the wrong direction. And we've been exploring this by looking at Ali Beth Stuckey's book,

Toxic Empathy, and reading her work because in so many ways it is completely typical of the

discourses in the contemporary. And again, I'm reading the book so you don't have to. And just as a

reminder, I have been reading it kind of week by week and had not read the whole thing before I started this series. And we are now in the final chapter, the final so-called lie that she addresses in her book. And what she takes as the final lie is that social justice is justice. Again, I take this as a truth. I am happy with the concept of social

justice. I think it is just, but she sees it as a lie. And in this is the chapter where she

will tell us why that is. It is her attempt to show why a concern for so-called social justice,

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