Weekly Roundup: White Discomfort is a Powerful Weapon

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Brad and Dan discuss American values in relation to the ongoing debates among Democrats about the Biden administration's infrastructure bill. They discuss why Joe Manchin has been willing to vote for 9 trillion in military spending over the last decade, but doesn't want to invest in education, fighting climate change, or American families. The bulk of the episode focuses on how White Christians use the feeling of discomfort as a justification for their exclusionary politics. Dan walks us through a fight in TN that wants to ban books that discuss race and segregation. The justification from parents is that such discussions make their children uncomfortable. Brad then analyzes a recent piece from the Catholic League on how advances in LGBT rights = the diminishment of Christian rights. 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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0:48.0	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:50.0	My name is Brad O'Nishi.
0:51.0	I'm faculty at the University of San Francisco, and I'm a partner with the Cap Center, UCSB.
0:56.0	And I'm here today with my co-host.
0:58.0	I'm Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamar College.
1:02.0	It's good to see you, Brad.
1:04.0	As always, we come together with topics that are not maybe the most uplifting, but at least
1:09.0	he gives us a chance to chat and catch up a little bit.
1:12.0	Yes, it does.
1:14.0	I think we're both tired.
1:15.0	I know for me, you know, I'm learning with a newborn how to manage, you know, sleep deprivation
1:24.0	and changing schedules with work.
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