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[–] 61 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Speaking at a campaign rally in Kansas, Trump said the reporting made Marshall, who is not Jewish, out to be “some kind of a shylock-type guy,” using a term widely recognized as offensive toward Jewish people.

You just gotta grab 'em by the slur, when you're rich they let you do it.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Surprisingly literate for Trump. Unsurprisingly offensive. But at least he was only antisemitic and not critical of Israel's policies.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    I always thought "shylock" was a Jewish slang term for a private detective.

    No idea why or where it came from, but I'm glad I've never felt the need to use it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    Shylock is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice. A Venetian Jewish moneylender, Shylock is the play's principal villain. Wikipedia

    Apparently (from reading the Wikipedia entry) Elizabethan england was quite antisemitic and it was common to portray Jews with particularly offensive stereotypes.

    So it's always been a slur.

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