merry christmas!

[wavyarms]

In light of the recent Fox News reports about attacks on Christmas, I present to you The Christian Privilege checklist. I disagree with 12 and 24 (both in NJ and MA) but in general it's good food for thought.

The only one missing is: "If I am a classical musician, I can assume that almost the entire western canon is based upon texts of my religion."

I shall now go do some X-mas shopping. :)

In other news, thomascantor had his final graduate recital yesterday, and it was great. Very good, very interesting concert. Special kudos to sen_no_ongaku for his piece, which was extremely effective. I look forward to the recording!

Also, I'm briefly in Boston right now, but not for very long. If I don't run into you, I'll be back for a nice long 3-week stretch starting Christmas Eve, so not to fret!

[EDIT: Since that privilege checklist was so popular, here is a link to a whole bunch more.]

Comments

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the privilege list. I'd add one along the lines of "People use my religion to signify someone of high moral character (as in, "That's very Christian of you", or "We're all good Christians here".)"

[cycon.livejournal.com]

The same could be said of race, at least in the South (e.g. "That sure is white of you").

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely! All of these privilege lists are about majority versus minority in whatever sort you're dealing with that day (religion, race, sexuality, gender....).