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Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

Politics, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Brad and Dan do close readings of statements made by Insurrectionist Senator Josh Hawley and Representative Matt Gaetz in order to deconstruct the logic of their attacks on CRT, their resistance to facing the inconvenient truths of American history, and their rage against investigating the 1/6 Coup. Both of them use binary thinking, false dilemmas, and straw man arguments to mount attacks that amount to nothing more than what Dan calls "toddler epistemology." They then turn to the remarks made by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley who provides a counter to the close-minded, fabricated war on CRT by stating clearly that he wants to understand white rage and why white people attempted to overthrow the US Constitution. The last major segment examines the Christian nationalist origins of the new law in Florida, just signed by "Uncle Ron" Desantis, requiring university employees and students to register their political views with the state. It is straight out of an authoritarian regime, and backed by Christian nationalist lobbyists who want to "preserve" the Christian heritage of the country. 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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0:51.0	What's up y'all? I hope you're doing good. Just wanted to share with you one announcement at the top of our weekly roundup.
0:58.0	We have a new perk for patrons and that is an extended segment of the weekly roundup every week.
1:03.0	And so if you are a Swatch patron every week we will post our extended discussion on our Patreon and it actually will be a video feed.
1:13.0	And so you'll get to see Dan and I chop it up. This week we're talking about Ebermex Candy and a quote that he has about racism in the United States.
1:23.0	And we explain how the Protestant 8th isization, it's a very awkward word.
1:30.0	Of American culture leads to how we understand race.
1:33.0	And so we're going to shed light on why it's so difficult to talk about race and racism in this country and how that relates back to an overwhelming prevalence of Protestantism and Protestant ideals and practices and so on in our culture.
1:48.0	And so you can look forward to that if you're a patron and if not head over to straight whiteamericanjesus.com or patreon and check out what we have to offer.
1:56.0	We appreciate y'all and hope you're having a good one off now to the weekly roundup.
2:00.0	Welcome to straight white American Jesus. My name is Prado Nishi.
2:03.0	Our show's hosted in partnership with the CapCenter UCSB and I'm here today with my co-host.
2:08.0	I'm Dan Miller associate professor of religion social thought at landmark college for Adam's good to see you.
2:14.0	Dan's got to think about where he works. He's in full summer mode. He's really he's really just buying into this whole t-shirt in a t-shirt in my home office.
2:24.0	That's right. That's right. I'm doing all right. I'm under the weather this week.
2:28.0	So definitely fighting through a weird summer cold.
2:31.0	But we can confirm though that it is a summer cold and not some breakthrough infection or something like that.
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