A recent submitter to the "Dear Prudence" agony aunt column that runs on the left-leaning current affairs site Slate.com was spurned when they sought advice on how to "change Judaism," a religion they described as "horrifying."
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The letter writer made it clear that they had "nothing against Jewish people," but said that Judaism itself institutionalized "infant genital mutilation [a reference to circumcision of male infants], animal abuse [referring to kosher ritual slaughter]" and espoused "extremely regressive social expectations."
While the advice seeker did not explicitly state whether they themselves were Jewish or not, they wondered how "they [Jews] can have the last openly apartheid state in the world."
The letter writer said that their attempts to "speak out" about these issues had attracted responses from "disgusting people," such as "Holocaust deniers [and] MAGA types," which prompted them to "hide [their] online presence" and asked Prudie (Jenée Desmond-Harris) how they might "guide the religion, kicking and screaming, into the 21st century."
Desmond-Harris did not pull her punches in responding, telling the letter writer that the reason they couldn't find support from anyone other than "human garbage," as the writer called the people who responded to their attempts to "guide the religion," was that the letter writer was "thinking like human garbage."
Desmond-Harris called out the letter writer's "antisemitism," pointing out that they had pinned on Judaism a number of issues that exist in many religions and many non-religious contexts.
"Judaism doesn't need you, of all people, to drag it into the 21st century, or anywhere else," Desmond-Harris wrote.
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