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A Labour Thicko
This is a Labour Councillor for you. He uses insulting phrases which amount to antisemitism and then blames Margaret Thatcher cos he's thick.
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//Bull claims he did not realise the character from The Merchant of Venice was Jewish and said he would have known if his schooling had been better.
“I grew up in a working class area in Ilford where this was a common saying, but I didn’t know it was offensive. This was a genuine accident and I reiterate my sincere apology for this mistake,” he said.
“If the education system had been better under Margaret Thatcher, I might have known.”//
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// He uses insulting phrases [Shylock] which amount to antisemitism //
// I never heard [Jewish people] referred to as Shylocks //
If you re read the text you will note I said ' when I was a lad'. :-)
I consider it was 60 years since I could refer to myself as a lad.
I have learnt considerably more in 60 years. Obviously Mr Bull has not.
As an aside. My School happened to be in TGL's Constituency. It was in Ballards Lane, Finchley. :-)
// He uses insulting phrases [Shylock] which amount to antisemitism //
// I never heard [Jewish people] referred to as Shylocks //
If you re read the text you will note I said ' when I was a lad'. :-)
I consider it was 60 years since I could refer to myself as a lad.
I have learnt considerably more in 60 years. Obviously Mr Bull has not.
As an aside. My School happened to be in TGL's Constituency. It was in Ballards Lane, Finchley. :-)
PP, //Violet Elizabeth Bott wrote only yesterday:
I wasn't aware that the term is offensive. The dictionary definition is //A ruthless moneylender; a loan shark.// and that's exactly my interpretation of it. Yes, it emanates from Shakespeare but not once have I ever considered ruthless moneylenders and loan sharks to be necessarily Jewish. I would suggest that anyone who does has a serious problem.//
No she didn’t. I wrote that … but then you knew that.
The term ‘Shylock’ has come to mean a ruthless moneylender or a loan shark, in the same way that ‘Machiavellian’ has come to mean cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, a ‘Judas’ a traitor, and Violet Elizabeth Bott a petulant child. No one in their right mind would consider all Jews to be loan sharks or traitors any more than anyone would consider all Italians to be cunning, scheming and unscrupulous, or all little girls with lisps petulant. No one balks at the term ‘Judas’ or ‘Machiavellian’, so why suddenly Shylock? Get your snow gear on. Snowflakes abound.
Leave me out of your loony ramblings, PP…. if you can bear to. You’re boring.
I wasn't aware that the term is offensive. The dictionary definition is //A ruthless moneylender; a loan shark.// and that's exactly my interpretation of it. Yes, it emanates from Shakespeare but not once have I ever considered ruthless moneylenders and loan sharks to be necessarily Jewish. I would suggest that anyone who does has a serious problem.//
No she didn’t. I wrote that … but then you knew that.
The term ‘Shylock’ has come to mean a ruthless moneylender or a loan shark, in the same way that ‘Machiavellian’ has come to mean cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, a ‘Judas’ a traitor, and Violet Elizabeth Bott a petulant child. No one in their right mind would consider all Jews to be loan sharks or traitors any more than anyone would consider all Italians to be cunning, scheming and unscrupulous, or all little girls with lisps petulant. No one balks at the term ‘Judas’ or ‘Machiavellian’, so why suddenly Shylock? Get your snow gear on. Snowflakes abound.
Leave me out of your loony ramblings, PP…. if you can bear to. You’re boring.
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