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The reason the message of the comic - which, by the way, is: \\\"neonatal circumcision should be illegal, in any and all circumstances\\\" - is considered right by some people (who are called intactivists), is basically because they see it as a human rights issue, noting that the western world outlaws FEMALE neo-natal circumcision, in any and all circumstances, including religious ones. The reason it\\\'s \\\"Don\\\'t Shoot The Message\\\" is that this point is couched in frankly reprehensible WWII-style dehumanizing propaganda. THAT isn\\\'t the message, it\\\'s the DELIVERY of the message, which is what that trope is all about.
For the record, Jewish identity is not dependent on circumcision, and there are even certain Jews who oppose it - usually they partake in an alternate ceremony called \\\"Brit Shalom\\\". In other words, the message is NOT that raising children is Jewish is wrong or not okay, it\\\'s that neo-natal circumcision, for ANY reason, is wrong; the argument here being that if Jewish (and Muslim, etc.) babies were not protected by human rights legislation just like everyone else, that would be unethical. Unfortunately, whoever drew the cartoon seems to be living in the 1930s, and that\\\'s why it\\\'s Don\\\'t Shoot The Message.
It\\\'s a very ugly, very thorny debate, and that comic does nothing but make the anti-circumcision side look bad. But the message is unequivocally NOT \\\"children should not be raised Jewish\\\", and that\\\'s basically why I deleted your comment. After having written this, I think it CAN be said that \\\"children should not be raised Jewish\\\" is an Unfortunate Implication, so you could probably say that.
EDIT: I went ahead and reorganized the entry to incorporate your valid concerns about anti-semitism and hopefully indicate that those who oppose neo-natal circumcision are not inherently anti-semetic themselves. Hopefully, the point is more clear now.
For the record, Jewish identity is not dependent on circumcision, and there are even certain Jews who oppose it - usually they partake in an alternate ceremony called \\\"Brit Shalom\\\". In other words, the message is NOT that raising children is Jewish is wrong or not okay, it\\\'s that neo-natal circumcision, for ANY reason, is wrong; the argument here being that if Jewish (and Muslim, etc.) babies were not protected by human rights legislation just like everyone else, that would be unethical. Unfortunately, whoever drew the cartoon seems to be living in the 1930s, and that\\\'s why it\\\'s Don\\\'t Shoot The Message.
It\\\'s a very ugly, very thorny debate, and that comic does nothing but make the anti-circumcision side look bad. But the message is unequivocally NOT \\\"children should not be raised Jewish\\\", and that\\\'s basically why I deleted your comment. After having written this, I think it CAN be said that \\\"children should not be raised Jewish\\\" is an Unfortunate Implication, so you could probably say that.
EDIT: I went ahead and reorganized the entry to incorporate your valid concerns about anti-semitism and hopefully indicate that those who oppose neo-natal circumcision are not inherently anti-semetic themselves. Hopefully, the point is more clear now.
