US President Donald Trump says he didn’t know that the term “shylock” has antisemitic connotations, after he lambasted “shylocks and bad people” in a speech last night celebrating passage of his massive tax-cut and border security bill among supporters at the Iowa State Fairground.
The term “shylock,” used as a stand-in for aggressive moneylender or loan shark, is considered by many to be antisemitic, as it is the name of the Jewish moneylender and villain in William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice,” which draws heavily on antisemitic stereotypes of Jews being stingy and greedy.
Lauding his “big beautiful bill,” Trump said that the tax cuts included within it meant that there would be “no death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker, and in some cases shylocks and bad people.”
Trump is stupid! Trump is ignorant! Trump is evil!
ReplyDeleteBUT he knows Shakespeare!
Try to be consistent, would you?
I wonder how many people across America use the phrase "to Jew something down" without having a clue as to where it came from. Did you know that "a matter of thumb" is an endorsement of spousal abuse? How many times in my childhood I was called a Moishe Kapoir by people way to young to know who he was?
These hysterics remind me of a public health doctor in Ontario who, early on during the CoVID crisis, declared the premier of Ontario to be a secret Neo-Nazi. Why? Because he'd made some slogan-type declaration that was 14 words long. 14 words! Don't you know what that means? There's apparently some Neo-Nazi cheer that's 14 word so, like, obviously this was a dog whistle!
You've cried "wolf!" way too many times to be taken seriously.
Shylock is a character in a fictional work. Are there any bad Christian characters in fiction? I'd say most are Christian. Bad guys in movies.mafia are Italian, or mexican drugs lords.
DeleteSo is that anti catholic?
Once upon a time, the Spanish Inquisition was a term to be feared. Today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o
DeletePeople throw out the term "Gestapo!" without having a clue about who those villains were. Trump's a fascist! You're a racist! Words are meaningless.