It's in the Code ep 162: “Social Justice Is Justice, Pt. 2”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 850-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ In this episode, Dan considers his look at why Allie Beth Stuckey rejects calls for social justice. He shows how she denies the existence of systemic racism and of racial privilege, and the ways in which she ignores the multiple dimensions of social justice to invalidate the experience of racism by millions of Americans. He also argues that people like Stuckey carefully cultivate their ignorance of the dynamics of race and privilege in America to protect and preserve their own social privilege. Check out this week’s episode to hear more! Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Check out BetterHelp and use my code SWA for a great deal: www.betterhelp.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	AXIS Moondy
0:07.0	AXIS Moondy Hello and welcome as always to it's in the code.
0:31.5	A series is part of the podcast, Straight White American Jesus.
0:34.7	I am Dan Miller, Professor of religion and social thought at
0:37.5	Landmark College. Pleased to be with you. As always, thank you for listening. And as
0:42.1	always, this is a series that is driven by you. I welcome your thoughts, insights, questions,
0:47.6	clarifications, ideas for upcoming episodes and series. Daniel Miller Swage, Daniel Miller,
0:53.4	S-W-A-J-H-E-Mmail.com. You can reach me there. You can reach
0:56.5	me on the Discord server. Love to hear from you. Coming up on the end of looking at Alibeth
1:03.4	Stuckey's book, Toxic Empathy, have a few other things planned out. But I'm always open for new
1:09.0	ideas. So please keep the ideas coming. Let me know what
1:11.6	you think. Let me know what I need to be looking at. Look forward to hearing from you. I want to dive in,
1:17.2	because again, there's a lot to say this week. As I mentioned a minute ago, we're continuing our
1:22.1	ongoing discussion of Ali Beth Stocky's book, Toxic Empathy and considering what she calls the
1:27.1	lies that we believe,
1:28.4	if we fall prey to the temptation of excessive empathy, of toxic empathy.
1:33.9	And really, we're looking at her book as a part of the broader conservative Christian critique of empathy as a sin to be avoided.
1:41.7	So as a reminder, if maybe you've missed a couple episodes, or maybe you're
1:45.0	jumping into this for the first time, her book is structured around five of the central lies
1:50.4	of toxic empathy, all lies that I consider truths, and we are looking at the last of these.
1:56.1	Her chapter, Social Justice is Justice. She considers that a lie. So in this chapter, she gives us her take on social
2:03.5	justice, and particularly racial justice. We're going to get to that caveat today or that focus.
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