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Straight White American Jesus

Weekly Roundup: The COVID Info Wars

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Brad and Dan discuss recent data that shows White Evangelicals are the only group who believes Trump's response to the pandemic has been appropriate. They connect this to recent studies that show how Trump supporters get their news/information directly from the president through the Trump App. This leads to a discussion of the proliferation of conspiracy theories and the problem of living in a post-truth world. 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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fm to get started. Welcome to Straight White, American Jesus. My name is Brad O'Nishi and I am joined as always on Fridays by my co-host.

1:05.0

My name is Dan Miller.

1:06.0

I'm Associate Professor Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College

1:10.0

and Brad, it's nice to see you as always.

1:13.6

You too, we are recording as always on our Friday.

1:18.2

I have not thought of a great story to tell you this week down.

1:22.0

I feel like I've let some of you know some of

1:26.2

America down on that front but I will say that if folks if you tune into our new

1:30.7

series a history of the religious rights since 1960,

1:34.8

that there will be plenty of stories there.

1:36.5

So if you're missing the sort of funny or embarrassing story from today, you need to tune in on the 26th because there will be plenty to feast upon when we get there.

1:48.6

So I want to jump right in Dan. We both have kind of a busy day and there's a lot to talk about so I'm going to jump into this. I saw a new piece this week from our friend Ryan Burge, former guest of the program who wrote at Christianity today that almost two-thirds of

2:06.0

white evangelicals believe that Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus has been quote

2:11.4

about right they are more confident in the

2:13.9

president's response than in any other groups including public health

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