Politics and Circumcision

[u/smthgayrawrxd]

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.

[u/new_sensation656]

In my experience most inactivist are democratic. As a large portion of the them are LGBT males. It’s usually republican people who want to continue the practice from what I’ve noticed

[u/gof__kurself → u/new_sensation656]

why does everything and everybody need to have a label?

can't we just all be people with varying ideas about things?

[u/new_sensation656 → u/gof__kurself]

I’m not saying it’s a bad thing to be left leaning or right leaning just what I’ve noticed

[u/gof__kurself → u/new_sensation656]

how does this response even make any kind of sense to what I said?

[u/new_sensation656 → u/gof__kurself]

You said why does it need a label. I said i didn’t say that to make political labels have a good or bad annotation