Brad and Dan continue to discuss what the post-Roe landscape looks like. They begin by going through a new article by Katherine Stewart and the New Republic. Stewart shows how Alito uses the argument from history to take women's rights away in the future. She compares it to the Dred Scott decision and argues that Alito smuggles in a White Christian nationalist framework into his legal opinion.
Katherine Stewart's article: https://newrepublic.com/article/166404/christian-right-roe-alito-abortion
This leads to analysis of the various calls for civility when protesting the overturning of Roe. Since protesters began going to the houses of SCOTUS justices, there have been calls for civility. Brad reminds us that when those in power call for civility, they are not asking you to be good citizens, but obedient ones.
Tim Alberta at the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/evangelical-church-pastors-political-radicalization/629631/
Dan then leads the discuss through a long new article by Tim Alberta at the Atlantic on the radicalization of evangelical politics and what it looks like on the ground.
The episode finishes with both hosts offering a scathing critique of a new anti-abortion oped at Newsweek.
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Welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
My name is Brad Onishi, faculty at the University of San Francisco, our social partnership with the Kapp Center at UCSB, and today I'm here with my co-host.
Dan Miller, Associate Professor of Religion and Social Thought at Landmark College.
It's nice to see you, Brad.
I'll say this now, in case my voice gets raspy, that I am actually home recovering from COVID.
I finally caught the COVID, but had, as they say, minor symptoms and have mostly been tired.
But if my voice is scratchy, that's why people probably should not lick my microphone or anything, or they might get COVID.
I think everyone was feeling sympathy for you, and concern, and now they're just grossed out.
So I just think you did, you know, one set, it was like a real good narrative turn there.
It was like, oh no, Dan got COVID, at least he's okay, at least he's not, has no symptoms, and then...
The licking the microphone really turned it into like, okay, I might even just turn this off now.
I mean, I don't even know if I can hang out any longer because of that.
In all seriousness, I've spent the last four days masking in the house and trying to separate from the family, wearing gloves, Lysol-ing everything.
So yeah, it's been my constant concern of trying to not have people come into contact.
No, I'm glad to be here and I'm on the mend.
I think my isolation ends after today.
So, yeah.
Good.
Well, obviously glad you're feeling okay and that, you know, vaxxed and boosted and all that.
So, statistics show that Looks like, you know, minor symptoms and that's good, but still, you know, obviously scary and glad you and family are doing all right.
And as long as we're doing that, just saying huge, huge, huge believer in the vaccinations and boosting, right?
Yeah, it's, uh, it worked exactly the way it's supposed to.
I'm waiting already for some people to be like, you say the vaccines work, but you still got COVID.
Um, but I never was worried about going to the hospital.
I never had any trouble breathing.
I never, you know, um, that's what they're supposed to do, right?
A serious illness and hospitalization.
So yeah, huge, huge believer, uh, being vaccinated and boosted and grateful that I am.
Yeah.
All right.
Obviously, just good news.
Scary news.
I remember we talked earlier this week and you told me so.
Glad everything is as best it can be with COVID.
Today, we need to talk about a bunch of stuff, but we need to first tell folks about two important things.
So, Dan, you got a seminar starting in a couple of weeks.
It's on Christian nationalism, identity politics.
What can people expect?
What's that seminar going to be about?
Yeah, so we'll talk some about identity politics.
We talked a little bit about this last episode.
You know, I did that series on identity politics.
It won't be as long as that series, obviously, but it'll support some of that more.
You know, we talked about having the receipts, right?
Instead of me just talking for 20 minutes and people maybe taking me in my word or looking some stuff up.
We'll look at some stuff about what identity is, what identity politics is, and then relating that to Christian nationalism.
How is Christian nationalism A form of identity politics.
I think it's especially noteworthy because Christian nationalists often position everybody else as being about identity, right?
Everybody else is about identity politics, but they're not.
And we're going to look at how that actually works.
So bringing together, you know, strands that we explore in the podcast all the time and the In our different series and your interviews that you do with folks in the series that I do.
So, again, four weeks.
People can sign up.
If you did the seminar before, you're familiar with how it works.
You'll receive some materials, kind of video that sets up the discussion, and then we'll have like a two-hour live virtual but live sort of event weekly, talking about through the different things.
And it's really giving people who want that chance to have a deeper dive, a chance to have that.
And even later this episode, I think we'll be getting into some things that are the kinds of issues that we'll be raising in that seminar in greater detail. - Thanks for listening to this free preview of our Swag episode.
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