- The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene I
The disgusting antisemitism which has been on display during the last few days, in our country and others, is a disgrace to all civilised people. And it's a source of embarrassment to Canada that our relentlessly "woke" Prime Minister, who can usually be found in front of a mic, weeping copiously, wagging his finger, and apologising for Canada's past sins- real and imagined- is nowhere to be seen or heard on this outrage. Typical. Anyone caught perpetrating these attacks should be arrested, tried, and jailed. And if they are not full citizens, they should be deported. There's no place for this revolting behaviour in our country. Never Again. "To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies—and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute—and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction." - The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene I
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