Traditional initiation is a rite of passage into manhood for young males that is practiced by various ethnic groups in Africa, including parts of South Africa. Among them are the Xhosa, Ndebele, Sotho and Venda communities.
If you define your cultural identity by the need to unnecessarily mutilate the genitals of children, then your culture is shit and does not deserve respect or acceptance.
Take a step back and consider what it is you’re defending here.
No. The bigotry would be not applying that logic across the board; doing it ICC style.
You are engaging in a brand of ‘bebevolent’ fetishization of ‘barbaric’ peoples and othering them, applying different values to them than to yourself. This is bigotry, even if it’s not hateful. Its genuinely disgusting.
I can imagine someone like you defending some of the things that my culture of origin did to me as a child this same way, and I’m white, so you wouldn’t; you’d apply values to me like I’m an actual person, but imagining someone who did? I’d fucking kill them
If you define your cultural identity by the need to unnecessarily mutilate the genitals of children, then your culture is shit and does not deserve respect or acceptance.
Take a step back and consider what it is you’re defending here.
And there’s that bigotry I mentioned.
No. The bigotry would be not applying that logic across the board; doing it ICC style.
You are engaging in a brand of ‘bebevolent’ fetishization of ‘barbaric’ peoples and othering them, applying different values to them than to yourself. This is bigotry, even if it’s not hateful. Its genuinely disgusting.
I can imagine someone like you defending some of the things that my culture of origin did to me as a child this same way, and I’m white, so you wouldn’t; you’d apply values to me like I’m an actual person, but imagining someone who did? I’d fucking kill them