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

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

I think it's not so much what kind of privilege stuff is. The privilege lists are a list of things that can be mostly assumed, stuff that the privileged don't have to waste a lot of time/energy/thought on if they don't want to. So I just don't have to think about a lot of things because I'm white. It's all about the luxury of not having to think about certain things.

[sigerson.livejournal.com]

I tend to read them as two types--privileges that should be universal and 'given' to everyone, and unfortunately often aren't (I can express my religion without fear of blah) and privileges that aren't positive (I am free to ignore other points of view).

I wonder if the fact that I celebrate a secular Christmas and a pagan (religious) Solstice is more irritating to Christmaspersecutioniks than it would be if I didn't celebrate Christmas at all.

...I need a Christmas icon.

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

We could just modify that icon and put a Santa hat on it. :P