Posted on 03/20/2019 8:44:49 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
Democratic presidential hopeful Andrew Yang wants to cut circumcision in the U.S. so American parents dont feel pressured to have the practice performed on their sons.
From what Ive seen, the evidence on it being a positive health choice for the infant is quite shaky, the 44-year-old serial entrepreneur told the Daily Beast.
Yang, who tweeted last week that he was against the practice of circumcision, said if he were president he would work to inform parents that it is entirely up to them whether their infant gets circumcised, and that there are costs and benefits either way.
Its sort of pushed on parents in many situations, Yang said.
Although Yang said he originally supported circumcising his sons so they wouldnt feel self-conscious, his wife got him on board with abandoning the practice. Now, Yang said he is highly aligned with a group of circumcision critics called intactivists who believe the male genitalia should remain intact.
The more choice we give parents, and the more we diminish the possible preconceptions or misinformation various parents are receiving, then the better off well be as a society, Yang said.
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How about the genital mutilation of females... hes probably OK with that
Elaine had something to say about this...
I know this sounds odd but, at one time, my son actually thanked me for having had it done for him. I am trying to recall the conversation but he was appreciative. I know when he was born, it was something I wanted done but his father was not so sure. I was convinced to wait a few days and, to this day, wish I hadn’t. I think it was more painful for him.
I don’t consider it the same as FGM at all.
Rush also played audio of this nitwit yesterday. In it he claimed whites would be shooting up Asian Churches within 10 years.
These people are gifts.
Yang or Wang?
Whats his problem? Iran is threatening to nuke us. Middleman are invading to take America over and impose Sharjah law from within. Our cities are crammed with beggars being enabled and encouraged to stay in the streets by corrupt D party politicians. Our churches are under attack from without and within, while Jews are openly assaulted and discriminated against and our colleges and corporations are openly recruiting foreigners - and this idiot is obsessing over what???? The D party sure has turned into a cartoon show.
Yang says don’t cut the wang.
Some demographics don’t have any bit of their endowment to spare.
I stopped on Limbaugh yesterday, and wondered why this topic was brought up. Again.
Recall a New Yorker Magazine cartoon, one panel - Moses looking up at God and saying, Let me get this straight, you want us to cut the ends of our di*ks off?
boy, he’s sure on the cutting edge.
That’s fine going forward, but what about those of us who have already had the procedure done? I demand reparations!
How long before he retracts his position?
Dem logic: It’s cool to kill a baby after birth and call it “abortion”. But it’s not cool to circumcise a baby boy.
Also, if appendectomies were as easy as circumcision, nobody would have an appendix.
It's not only Jews; many primitive societies totally unrelated to one another perform circumcision. It's probably because they associate the intact foreskin with some very unpleasant conditions. Eventually what's purely pragmatic becomes ritualistic, and gets inculcated into the society's traditions and religious practices.
A friend who is a physician and a Jew, convinced my wife and I, for the good of our new son.
He said that if things went bad he could always claim to be Jewish.
And so it was done.
I do recall a male friend who was Ukrainian American said they used to pull the Ukrainians pants down. If circumcised you were shot.
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