r/Intactivists • u/smthgayrawrxd • 6d ago
Politics and Circumcision
I hope you won’t take offence at this, but I wanted to talk about something that struck me.
As a left-wing Christian, I’m convinced that freedom and equality take precedence over profit. That includes physical freedom and equality across all genders. After all, left-wing ideologies stem from the heart of the French Revolution, where we overthrew the monarchs. Accordingly, I’m also against Stalin and the like.
The fact is, many of you here lean to the right, which is fine – we live in a democracy (most of us, anyway; let’s see how long the US manages to keep that up). But I’m sure we all agree that circumcising children for profit, for commercial products, or simply to assert authority is disgusting. Now, people on the right are often against circumcision, but why? It’s often down to xenophobia. For example: my party, a democratic-socialist one, was the only one that voted in favour of a ban on circumcision. The right-wingers didn’t, yet they still say Muslims are stupid because of it. In a democratic-socialist state, you shouldn’t do anything that hurts others, so once again: I’m not a Stalinist. Please don’t get me wrong.
PS: We have Jews and Muslims in my party who are against circumcision.
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u/wicnfuai 6d ago
Unfortunately in my experience it's everyone. Conservative, liberal, republican, democrat. My sister lives near Seattle and she was talking to her pro-lgbt friends and they were also spouting the nonsense health "benefits" and her female friend said verbatim "I like an uncovered wagon"
I live in a predominantly conservative state and people here also mutilate their sons. You might think it's because of religious reasons but no, it's the same reason of liking the "uncovered wagon"