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I come across a lot of that. "I don't get it".

My response:

Just because YOU don't understand doesn't make it incorrect

Quite. I have found that people who look a bit dim usually are, and wrong 'uns tend to look like wrong 'uns.

So we are to believe that when Iago tells Brabantio that 'an old black ram is tupping your white ewe' there is no racist undertone?

I would suggest that she has either not read Shakespeare in any detail or she is too dim to understand it.

Or, of course, she's lying to please her paymasters.

She's another one who says that Shakespeare should be ruffs and tights, and hey nonny nonny, and now they've gone and cast a black woman as Juliet and here come the end times.

It's performative bollocks, there to be lapped up by people who don't want to think too much, and while they may not know a lot about Shakespeare, they know he's public property and that means you do him right (meaning, what they vaguely recall from school).