OK, so there's a group trying to educate 'murricans regarding just exactly what Shakespeare meant when he put the line, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" into Dick the Butcher's mouth.
Whether the Bard was trying to defend lawyers or not, I see two takeaways from this.
First, our schools are doing a shit job of teaching the classics if someone has to have this explained to them. (Of course we've known that for years.)
Second, counselor, "thou doth protest too much, methinks." If things are so bad that people are actually twisting the meaning of the line out of context against lawyers, your profession has other problems that won't be solved by explaining what Shakespeare really meant.
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