Shylock is a fictional Jewish money-lender invented by Shakespeare.

The story ends when Shylock is defeated and forced to abandon Judaism.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shylock

  • Glytch@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Yes. More specifically, Biden was being antisemitic when he used an antisemitic term to describe a group of people, regardless of their behavior.

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      11 hours ago

      What if he used a term for crooked bankers to describe crooked bankers and didn’t consider that it propagated harmful stereotypes?

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        9 hours ago

        Then he was negligently being antisemitic. The result is the same: harmful stereotypes propagated due to his choice of words and his failure to consider them more carefully.