Rivka Wolf
1 min readApr 29, 2023

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I'm going to respond ONCE to the novella you chose to write on my article.

Everyone has the right to judge for ourselves what is morally right or wrong. We all have minds and hearts. We all have the ability to feel disgust. We have the right to judge what is acceptable or not. Just because a practice is accepted in another culture does not mean it is morally neutral. Circumcision is accepted in many cultures, including mine, but hopefully we can all agree that slicing open children's bodies unnecessarily due to some ancient cultural ritual is wrong.

It's not "imperialism" to pass that judgement. Imperialism would be if I had the power and the will to invade Tibet and force the people there to change their customs. Passing judgment on someone's behavior is not an imperialist action, it is a human one.

Additionally, let's be clear. Children rarely know whether they are being abused. That is doubly true when the child in question has grown up being taught they must respect their elders, and that the person who abused them is a great religious icon. That is why when police interview children about child abuse, they do not ask "were you abused? No? Okay then!" and leave it at that.

You clearly have an intense and very abusive view about what children should be subjected to.

Get that checked out.

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Rivka Wolf
Rivka Wolf

Written by Rivka Wolf

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