[A great article read by Dr. Duke on today’s broadcast. –Dave Cooper]

The Merchants of Menace
by Ulysses

It infuriates the Jewish community that the greatest writer in all of history wrote a brilliant play that depicts Jews as, well . . . Jews.

Recently here in Canada, a local university staged a production of The Merchant of Venice. The University, being under an extreme leftist administration that not only stresses but forces “tolerance” and multiculturalism on its students with an iron fist, went far beyond meddling in the school Drama Group’s production. They attempted to remove the word “Jew” from the play. Entirely. By my calculation there are 79 instances of the word “Jew” in The Merchant of Venice. That would require 79 edits to one of the great works of English Literature, deemed necessary by a group of self-appointed language police acting “in the best interests of society”. One example that those who would deface Shakespeare’s masterpiece are fond of citing is “Certainly the Jew is the very devil incarnation” (Act 2, Scene 2). This glib quip, despite being an observation made by many of the great thinkers in the canon of Western thought, was clearly unacceptable to the university’s indoctrinated administration. Their knee-jerk reaction was nothing more than a reflex lacking any analysis; the offensive words would be removed and all would be well in the world. Yet the obvious question remained “Is this a racist play or a play about racism?” Sadly, it never occurred to them to ask this. They simply assumed that Shakespeare wrote this play with the intention of being Politically Incorrect in the 21st Century.

Therefore they settled on the idea that “Jew” was a racist word used only by “non-Jews” and they decided to replace every occurrence of it in Shakespeare’s play with simply “Shylock”. Then they decided that since it is well-known that Shylock was the Jewish character’s actual name, “Shylock” wasn’t working out either and that the character should have no name at all; much like children are forced to hum the words of Christmas carols so that the non-Christian 1% of an audience is not offended. The fact that Shakespeare’s play is a work of fiction was never considered. (more…)