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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
There is a guy named Andrew Yang who is running for president and opposes circumcision. He’s in infamous company since it was Hitler who said: “The Jews have inflicted two wounds on mankind — circumcision on its body and conscience on its soul.”
In the days ahead, you will hear that “just because you oppose circumcision does not mean you hate Jews” as you have heard “just because you oppose Israel does not mean you hate Jews.” Both statements are true if you believe in unicorns.
Yet circumcision could be a civilizing practice, for Hitler also said: “It is true we (Nazis) are barbarians. It is an honorable title.” Leftists are almost there. The behavior of Antifa goons is barbaric and the longings of certain elected officials are barbaric, too.
You might think that people would want to emulate Jews based on their staggering achievements down through history until the phenomenal success of Israel today. But the virus of Jew hatred runs deep.
Today we celebrate Purim and our victory over Haman, who wanted to destroy the Jewish people. The mullahs in Iran today have the same ambition.
And now we suddenly have to contend with members of Congress and a presidential candidate with Haman/Hitler-like pronouncements.
(To be clear, parents have every right not to circumcise their sons. It’s the Andrew Yangs who want to prohibit circumcision for everyone who are the problem.)
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When I was taking courses to become a marriage and family counselor in California, we were required to take an all-day seminar on child abuse. The instructor, who had been teaching the seminar for many years, equated circumcision with clitorectomy (performed on Muslim baby girls). I protested this comparison to the instructor and my challenge was met with silence. The next day I went to a senior staff member who was Jewish and complained about this part of the curriculum. Subsequently, circumcision was no longer taught as child abuse. This happened ten years ago but I wonder if today the result of such a protest would be the same. And I wonder if child abuse seminars regularly equate circumcision with clitorectomy. If you go to online discussions of Andrew Yang and his opposition to circumcision, you will find a mob of people who share his view.
And, in fact, your link is two years older than mine. Here’s one from 2018.
That is appalling. Such ignorance out there. Wow.
Oh @ejhill, you beautiful naive man. If the Jews can control the weather you think they can’t control the CDC?
Me? The first rule of Hebrew Club is that you don’t talk about Hebrew Club…
He’s a typical liberal. Anything not mandatory is prohibited.
It sucks being 63 . . .
If I get a new foreskin sewn on, does that make me “transcircumsized”?
It’s worse than you imagine. The Jews are using their control of the weather to control the CDC.
Wheels within wheels, baby. Wheels within wheels.
Wait, there’s a guy named Andrew Yang running for President? Of what?
Do tell.
Not the boring part, just the worse part.
Don’t Muslims practice circumcision? So Yang is an Islamophobe.
They do, but usually between 7 and 10 years old. In some areas it is not as prevalent.
Yikes. That seems much worse.
Old guys that don’t clean themselves properly. It really is both.
Yup
That’s ok, @percival. To me you’ll always be a cut above the rest….
😛😛😛
Right you are. In my experience, those who have the most paranoid opinions about circumcision (or vaccination, for that matter, even though they aren’t the same kind of issue) rarely have any scope of the kind of risks or discomforts that almost all of us will experience in a normal life.
At a Jewish ritual circumcision, women are usually nudged out of viewing range before the cutting, not sure why. As a ped surg nurse, after years of seeing all kinds of alarming things, I was supposed to be in charge of emergency backup for a religious circ that was done on a baby who had spent most of his life up until then in hospital with us for other things. This was the first traditional “non-medical” circ I had ever seen up close. Not only did everything go smoothly, I was surprised that this was what I’d been kept from watching for so many years. Not a big deal at all, folks.
I remember reading something by a man who had a circ done for health reasons he would not discuss. He in retrospect, he thought that it would have been simpler, less complicated, and more easily gotten over had his parents had it done when he was a baby, but that he believed the decision was best left to the parents.
He also said it was pretty mortifying to be referred to as “the penis in room 9”.
Most things generally are. I am convinced that most of our salaries are tacit hush money.
If Yang is elected and bans circumcision, I wonder if we can get around his ban by 3-D printing a home circumcism kit?
If Yang is so against circumcison, he must also be against FGM. I’d like to see a reporter ask him the question after he speaks to a group of Muslims seeking their support . . .
A family member had her son undergo a bris despite being as Lutheran as a cruller and black coffee after Holy Service. (She has been known to veer off into crystal-rubbing, tree-hugging and such, but a strategic snicker or two usually brings her back to the mean.) Unfortunately, there were complications, as there can be with any surgical procedure no matter how expertly executed, and the poor little guy did a little extra hospital time as a result. He grew up to be perfectly okay, though. He even helps to throw in a snicker or two.
Are you kidding? I would have had a tee shirt made.
Yeah, we have a tendency to do that.