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: Taking issue

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

Accidental privileges are just as important as the others.

The point of these lists is not that we should run out and fix them all and we're bad if we don't. The point is to think about the ways in which your life is easier or different from someone else's, because that can inform how you respect other people.

Re: Taking issue

[ethicsgradient.livejournal.com]

Then they forgot to mention that if you go out into the singles scene, you can find someone who shares your religious beliefs with relative ease.

Though maybe Christians don't frequent the singles scene....

Re: Taking issue

[wavyarms.livejournal.com]

You're right, that's a good one!

Although some Christians wouldn't view it as such - I have a friend who is having trouble finding "a nice Catholic boy." (She's pretty egalitarian - has dated several atheists - but in a life partner, someone who shares her religion is important to her.)

Re: Taking issue

[ethicsgradient.livejournal.com]

Maybe she should consider a shirt that says: "This body is worth a mass"

You can tell her I said that, in fact.