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

Re: A few thoughts/ideas

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Well, race/religion/gender/class privileges are all mixed up anyways.

I'm flattered you signal-boosted, and sorry you got slammed. Good luck with the These lists of "privileges" exist to make people aware of their unexamined assumptions thing. Pardon me if I don't jump into the fray, but I don't really think I'll end up producing useful conversation.

(Interesting how one of the common reactions to the subject of privilege is for people to defend their victimizations. "No, no, I'm not privileged - in fact, I'm a victim! Look!")

We now return you to your regularly scheduled snark-free day.

Re: A few thoughts/ideas

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can handle it. :)

I showed the list to galagan (who is a lapsed Catholic) and he started ranting about how when he goes to Rotary meetings here, they pray at the start of the meeting - and when they pray, they pray to Jesus explicitly. Because it wouldn't occur to anyone here that there's a problem with either of those things in a public forum.

Re: A few thoughts/ideas

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, "because it wouldn't occur to anyone."

I'm very glad now that I had some anti-racism training on that cross-country bike trip. Although it was uncomfortable and not always easy to swallow in the beginning, I really feel that it was a valuable thing to learn to stretch my brain cells and think about unquestioned assumptions. That's where I first ran into the Peggy McIntosh article.

Tell galagan he has my sympathies. Tell him the same thing happens at Westminster graduation. :)