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

[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. :)