This essay considers the impossibility faced by The Merchant of Venice’s Shylock in seeking redress for his suffering and how dismissal of his complaints parallels criticism of protests against racial injustice in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to Colin Kaepernick's 2016 protest against police brutality. Venice's idealization of Christ-like passivity and our own age's veneration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence create impossible standards for those attempting to call attention to injustice, leading to condemnation of protesters’ actions and misinterpretation of their motives.

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“他的忍耐应该是什么？” 在莎士比亚的威尼斯和黑人生活的时代抗议不公正现象很重要

这篇文章考虑了面临的不可能威尼斯商人的夏洛克为他的痛苦寻求补救，以及驳回他的投诉如何与批评 21 世纪对种族不公正的抗议活动相提并论，特别关注科林·卡佩尼克 2016 年对警察暴行的抗议。威尼斯对基督般被动的理想化和我们这个时代对马丁路德金非暴力的崇敬为那些试图引起人们注意不公正的人创造了不可能的标准，导致对抗议者行为的谴责和对他们动机的误解。