Circumcision shows us some of the flaws in being human, our primitive need to form tribes and rituals for survival, and left us with harmful relics which are difficult to abandon because unconsciously it feels like we will threaten our survival if we give them up #i2
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Replying to @Mindofown
circumcision as hazing ritual (aborigines, African tribes) is very different from that of infants since it implies willingness to submit (as the price of joining tribe)--infant circumcision shows no respect for the will of the objectified child (Islamic practice is in between)
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Replying to @Cukullen
Good point but I was trying to make the point that infant circumcision has morphed into a tribal ritual in the USA
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it would be more accurate, as A. Freedman says, to identify infant circumcision as a marker of jewish tribalism, and its spread in the USA as an index of jewish influence, the "universal dominance" Marx foresaw in late capitalism: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/jewish-question/ …
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