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And they’ll keep on circumcising their sons while unironically screaming about anyone who respects trans rights being out to surgically mutilate all children. What a world.
That seems somewhat antisemitic, if you ask me. Not all jews are anti-trans.
Not all circumcised are Jews. Most aren’t in fact.
In the US circumcision was the norm for the longest time. Thank John Harvey Kellogg for that. I don't think it's recommended anymore.
It's probably still a lot more uncommon than being uncircumcised because "well I guess it should look like mine or most of the others"
Aesthetic and looking like the father is a big reason women still support doing so.
How would women feel if men said the same thing about cutting theirs up for aesthetic reasons?
But the only religion that holds to this story of Abraham, and circumsises is Judaism.
Muslims reject the Torah, or the Old Testament, and Christians are under no obligation to circumcise so this only applies to Jews.
And Americans do it ~~because they are weird~~ for cultural reasons.
But they still believe it.
Believe what?
The story of Abraham
Dude. Wipe your computer screen clean, open your eyes, and notice the text in the meme about 4 billion people who think nothing is wrong with this: Christians are invoked directly in the post.
They didn't say anything about jews being anti-trans.
Didn't even say anything about Jews. Most people I've meant who are pro circumcision and follow an Abrahamic god are not Jewish.
But Americans that circumcise(which I did not know happened), don't do it for religious reasons. And Muslims don't believe in the story depicted, so this by elimination only applies to Jews.
Ah yes! The famous three branches of abrahamic faith: Judaism, Islam, and America.
Jewish scholars often recognize 8 genders.
There are Jewish TERFs, but they tend to also be alt right Zionists.
Sorry, m8. Here, I'll fix it.
~~trans rights~~
palestinian rights
There, should be kosher now.
It is not. There are enough Jews that don't support the actions of Israel for your comment to be definetly antisemitic.
Just not enough to stop the genocide. Work on those numbers.
From what I understand it's also still the standard in the US. Originally popularised because it would keep boys from fondling themselves which, of course, would make Sky Daddy angry.
But if that's not the case, I'd happily stand corrected by someone more knowledgeable on this topic.
I would say that Christians are not required to circumcise themselves, since jewish law only applied to Jews before Christ, and it actually made sense to do so back then, for hygienic reasons.
I was unaware Americans do this, but first I would say that that practice is clearly not connected to Abraham, that is portrayed here, in any way, even if what you say is correct. And it is a cultural practice, not a relgious one, and even if it was, as you say, motivated by religious views.
But I... am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.
Finally, I will say that it would be unfair to transpose the beliefs of an obscure american sect of Christianity on the entire Christendom. Especially since there is literally no religious requirement for Christians to do so.
Cirucmcision was commonly promoted as a means to keep boys chaste in the US and was a popular “treatment” promoted by Kellogg at the time (yeah the cereal guy).
Christians may not be required to do it but we’ve got a few tens of millions at least who do do it out of social cohesion reasons and that’s enough of a “reason” for them.
Here’s a quote by Kellogg on how a circumcision should be ideally performed by the way.
Dude was whack job, American af and not Jewish. Kellogg encouraged parents to tie their children’s hands to their bedposts or to circumcise their teenage boys. An even more aggressive tactic saw the foreskin of a young man’s penis sewed shut to prevent erections. For young girls, he recommended pouring carbolic acid on their clitorises.
So no, saying some shit about circumcision being genital mutilation ain’t antisemitic in America. Most people who do it aren’t Jewish, it has a long history of non-Jews doing it and most of the people circumcised in America were done so by non-Jews.
In fact approximately 58.3% of all newborns in the US get circumcised despite any religious affiliation were still happening as of 2010. Recent days could change but not drastically enough to change the point.
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/circumcision_2013/circumcision_2013.htm)
So shut up about it already.
But they are not doing it because they are Christians. The vast majority of Christians don't do it, and atheist americans do it too. This is just a quirk of america, that is religiously coloured because that is what america is like.
And the comment I responded to was talking about people who circumcise for religious reasons.
So it is you, who is wrong.
I’m rubber you’re glue.
lmao mfw I remember why I stay away from atheist spaces. Just the most sweaty debate bros ever.
Seriously! I just read this and I was like, fuck, I remember being 16 too
The idea was, if I'm not mistaken, that without foreskin sensitivity & pleasure decreases. So that way there is less 'risk' of boys engaging in sexual activities, other than for reproductive purposes.
Wow. If I was prompted to come up with the stupidest notion right now, I would hardly make up something dumber.
The Jews at least had a normal reason to do this(hygiene), this is ridiculous. Do you still do this?
Wait… you mean we’d fondle ourselves even more if we were uncut??? When do you guys ever sleep???
It"s a hard life 😔
.. but that woodwork needs to be done. 😞
As a Jewish person the vast majority of religious Jews are extremely transphobic and also incredibly homophobic. So no its acturally not inaccurate at all, most Rabbis will genuenly complain about Trans people mutalating and indoctrinating people while doing that themselves.