Shylock on way out of statutes
by Dara Kam | March 5th, 2009
Lawmakers are moving closer to doing away with archaic and offensive words to Jews still included in the statutes.
The Florida Senate moved along a bill (SB 318) that would strike the words “shylock” and “shylocking” from the criminal usury laws dealing with unfair lending.
The word has its roots in the Shakespearean play, “The Merchant of Venice,” in which Shylock lends money at no interest but demands a pound of flesh if the loan is not repaid.
The use of the “discriminatory, offensive, pejorative” language in state law needs to stop, argued Sen. Eleanor Sobel, a Jewish Democrat from Hollywood who sponsored the bill.
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November 13th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Good read, thanks. Always looking out for weird and wonderful stuff to read