First Blog Carnival on Privilege
Judith over at A Lesbian & A Scholar is hosting the first blog Carnival on Privilege, with links to blog posts from around the Internet on the topic of privilege. I submitted a post of mine from September, A Loss of Privilege, or a Gain?, which discussed different perspectives on what ‘privilege’ has meant throughout my transition. Other topics covered by the carnival are Christian privilege, heterosexual privilege, white privilege, and more. Check it out!
Themocracy
What ever happened to “treat everybody equally and with kindness?”
Congrats on getting a spot.
One in particular was less than entertaining and didn’t seem to go into the depth yours did.
I’ve had poor encounters with atheist and I know not all of them are like that, the ones I have had altercations with tend to lump religion into Christianity, and saying “other forms of idiocy” is kind of intolerant.
The worst I’ve heard is “USian privilage.” Because being the rest of the world’s cultural and intellectual woobie and (the irony of) being considered intolerant of people from being in/from other countries makes us far more privileged than other countries who look down on us because of it.
Anyway, congrats on making the grade. Your entry was a good read. ;3
I would suggest that a description of USian privilege would probably be more likely built around the relative wealth and power of the US compared to every other nation on earth and its tendency as a state to use that wealth and power to influence the internal affairs of other nations to its own advantage – which it is not alone in doing, of course, but does so to much greater degree than any other nation at present.
That would be a more constructive argument than the one I heard.
The one I heard just seemed to play off of stereotypes.
The other part of it tried to point out how greedy Americans were for calling ourselves that despite the fact that we aren’t the only ones who call people from where we are Americans and we’ve been called that since before our becoming a country.
Thanks, Kei. I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I would agree that the post on Christian privilege is offensively written. That said, I would also agree with the post’s main point, that American culture assumes ‘Christian’ is normal, much in the way it assumes that male, straight, and white is normal.
(Likewise, I think Maddie’s spot on with USian privilege.)