re: #426 Obdicut

It’s seen as an attempt to erase the Jewishness of the person, and Jews are highly sensitive to that. I don’t think observant Jews actually feel like it changes anything, at all, but that it is an actual attempt to. That those who do it feel it’s meaningful is why Jews have a problem with it.

It’s saying that someone’s ancestor wasn’t good enough the way they lived, and needed “perfecting” as Ann Coulter would say. It’s a highly insulting thing to do.