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

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      15 hours ago

      Was he racist in 2014? While he was vice president to a black man? The point is that some terms that old people use don’t mean the same thing to them that they do to average people today.

      Edit: lol, oops. Yes, Obama is black and not Jewish. I guess Biden could be antisemitic and not racist against black people. Or I suppose he could be racist and still work closely with a black man and appear convincingly to be on good terms with him. In any event it doesn’t prove much about Biden being antisemitic. I think he just used a dated term because he is old.