retrocop - // What next? The woke snowflakes demanding Shakespeare be banned?
He must of been a racist what with Othello The Moor of Venice and all that //
Shakespeare was indeed a racist, although the term had no context or meaning in his day.
He wrote plays that appealed to the ordinary man in the street, and that included pandering to the ordinary man's prejudices as well, hence his negative characters like Othello and Shylock, because Moors and Jews were distrusted in the Elizabethan society in which Shakespeare lived and worked.
But everything is a part of its cultural context, which is why re-writing history on any level with a modern perspective is such a pointless and damaging thing to do.
We are who we are when where we are because of what we have been, and where we have been, and trying to pretend that attitudes and actions that shaped out modern culture are 'wrong' because they no longer apply is the product of a mind with an oved-developed sense of self-righteousness, and an under-developed sense of the importance of history.