Weekly Roundup: Trump Attacks Kamala Harris' Racial Identity

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2024

⏱️ 69 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 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Annika Brockschmidt joins us to discuss recent shifts in American politics, particularly focusing on identity politics. The conversation delves into controversies surrounding race and identity, spotlighting Donald Trump's contentious comments on Kamala Harris's heritage, the Trump campaign's struggles to broaden its coalition, and the GOP's strategies related to Project 2025. We analyze the influence of social media on political mobilization and explore how these dynamics are perceived outside of the United States. The episode concludes with a sense of cautious optimism as they reflect on recent positive developments and public enthusiasm related to the upcoming election. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's book: https://bookshop.org/a/95982/9781506482163 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Axis Mundi.
0:07.0	And... And she was always of Indian heritage and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to
0:24.5	turn black and now she wants to be known as black so I don't know is she
0:28.5	Indian or is she black she is always identified as a black I respect
0:32.0	either one I respect either one but she
0:34.7	obviously doesn't because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she
0:39.0	made a turn and she went she became a black person just to be be clear, sir, do you believe that she is...
0:44.0	I think somebody should look into that too when you ask a continue in a very hostile nasty town. I love. Hello and
1:05.0	welcome to Straightwide American Jesus and our weekly roundup.
1:09.4	My name is Dan Miller, Professor of Religion
1:11.7	and Social Thought
1:12.6	at Landmark College.
1:14.2	I am co-hosting today not with Brad O'Nishi,
1:18.0	who was not able to be here, but with another friend of the show,
1:21.2	our friend, Anica, I'll throw it over you to introduce yourself.
1:24.0	Yeah, hi, thank you so much for having me.
1:27.0	I always love being on.
1:28.0	My name is Anika Prokshmid.
1:30.0	I'm a journalist, as you can probably hear from the accent I am German so I'm based in
1:36.0	Berlin and my focus has been right-wing politics right-wing extremism for a couple of years now and I focus
1:46.9	specifically on the US right but also on the European right so that's what brought me here today.
1:55.1	Yeah, and we always love having you on for so many reasons,
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