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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:25 am
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:13 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:04 pm
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Doctrix I think that the problem here is less that you're dealing with Christian privilage and more that you're a minority dealing with young people. Young people who, when in a group of peers, decided to bully you based on gender and orientation simply because they were different They said it's because it's a sin- that's pretty much Christian Privilege.
Quote: Young people who want a Christian Minister to talk about diversity because they are worried that somebody different from them wouldn't make sense and they wouldn't be able to understand.
Isn't that the essence of Christian Privilege? That they don't want to consider another view point because it wouldn't make sense to their world view so because they're a majority they don't have to?
Quote: Young peope who have never had to worry about where their next meal is coming from and think that the poor people they're helping are smudge-faced ragged kids like on TV, not the strong student next to them. I think the Christian Privilege in that instance was the assumption that we all have the same religion so setting the discussion in terms of God's Blessing is normal.
Quote: If I were you, I'd try to stop the resentment and feeling of isolation from creeping in not by focusing on differences like Christian privilage, but trying to find common ground. I think I have ever right to resent the treatment I receieve and to be upset about it- I don't like my status as a minority being a tool to discount my perspective and I'm justified in being angry about it.
Quote: You'll have to be the better person here. Treat Christian bullys like you would any other bully. I don't think this is about being the better person any more than sitting in the Birmingham Jail was about King being better than the ministers he wrote his letters to- there's privilege and it can be oppressive. Our campus stresses diversity and inclusiveness- but in practice it doesn't happen. Racial, religious and LGBT minorities are discriminated against- not by the faculty, but by other students.
Quote: Agree to having the Christian Minister come, but talk to him before hand about your problems so that he can address your peers in their language and help them understand. I don't really want to- I don't think it's appropriate for a Cis-Hetero speaker to talk about the importance of equal rights for LGBT people when there are plenty of LGBT people out there who want to do it- just because someone who is Cis and Hetero will make the people listening more comfortable in their bias and privilege- I feel the same about having a Christian mouthpiece for Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim and Pagan students.
Quote: It is tough being a minority, but even tougher being a kid. Good luck. I'm an adult on a commuter campus. sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:09 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:25 pm
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Doctrix Oh, wow, maturity of your fellow students fail. xp I'm so sorry. I'm not saying you don't have a right to be angry. You do. But if what you do with your anger is further devisive, it can't be constructive or healthy for you.
I agree there's a constructive and healthy way to deal with this- but I don't think that being divisive is always a bad thing- it can create change.
Thoreau said "Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine."
Plato idolized Socrates and in the Apology compared him to a gadfly stinging the idleness of men's minds, and King talked about tension being useful from his jail cell. (Blame my English prof- this is the paper she's having me write this weekend sweatdrop )
That was why I was looking for how people handle privilege- in this case Christian privilege, being used as a tool to hurt others.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:15 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:58 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:26 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 11:31 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:13 am
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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 3:34 pm
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