You're Not Welcome Here, Ep. 8:“They’re Acting Against Their Interests”

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This episode explores the concern that people act against their own social or political interests because of their identity. Because they privilege their identity, they oppose political, social, or economic policies that would be beneficial to them. Dan argues that this is a mistaken conception, and that we have to recognize that identity and interests are entangled with each other in complex ways. Changing how we understand the relationship between identity and interests is the key to advancing transformative politics. 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 Produced by Brad Onishi and Dan Miller Edited by Shannon Sassone Music by Matt Puckett Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:20.1	Hello and welcome to Strait Wide American Jesus. I am your host Dan Miller,
1:30.2	associate professor of Religion and Social Thought at Lamar College. And this is the podcast series
1:35.8	you don't belong here where we look at identity, identity, politics, related issues. Strait Wide
1:42.0	American Jesus is hosted in partnership with the Cap Center at UCSB and so we thank them and I
1:48.3	want to thank all of you for joining me for this time together. And I want to open with this
1:53.3	question and I want you to just think about this. It's a question you might have asked yourself.
1:57.6	It's a question that I guarantee that you've heard other people ask. Why are they acting against
2:03.7	their own interests? The they, right, whoever they are, it can change. But what we're talking about
2:13.7	is the times we've asked ourselves, we've heard somebody else ask this question in the aftermath
2:18.6	of an election. Why did this group vote against this policy or this candidate who it seems obvious
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