Trump had used the term during a speech last year, leading to backlash. He said at the time that he wasn’t aware of the word’s antisemitic connotations.
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.
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.
You just gotta grab 'em by the slur, when you’re rich they let you do it.
Surprisingly literate for Trump. Unsurprisingly offensive. But at least he was only antisemitic and not critical of Israel’s policies.
Not really, that’s definitely an old person slur. I’d be surprised if someone in their 20s used it, but not surprised at all for an octogenarian.
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.
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.
It may have been an association with “Sherlock” made by my childhood brain that I never had the need to use or question for decades.
Better late than never, I suppose.
Hah! Yeah. That an entirely plausible innocent childhood association.
Growing up my only exposure to the term was this 90s comic strip in the newspaper
I thought it was Matlock’s twin except with a mustache
Shylock, not Sherlock. 😉