Reply To: Origin of various racial slurs

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Eric26567
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The lore I’ve heard about this has is that ‘Kike’ is derived from ‘Kikel’, which means circle, possibly in Yiddish. My details may be inaccurate, but I thikthe deal was that at some point in the last… 150 years, but I think in the early 1900s, Jews immigrating were asked to mark their papers with a symbol to indicate they were Jewish. They were told to mark a cross (or something that didn’t make sense) and so instead they chose to mark a circle, as a symbol of the omnipresence, or universality, or perfection of God. At least, that’s what I read once.

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