Everyone knows what the word “kike” means, but not everyone agrees on where the word comes from. That mystery is back in the headlines with yet another viral use of the slur this time, it was NBA player Meyers Leonard who unleashed the word during a heated gaming moment.
“Dictionaries prefer to say that its origin is unknown, which is right but uninspiring,” Anatoly Liberman wrote on the Oxford English Dictionary blog in 2009, as part of a series he did on ethnic slurs.
And to make matters more complex, the OED was unable to officially identify any uses of “kike” before 1904. That means we move to the world of theories.
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Will the much-delayed 2020 Miss Universe pageant be held in Costa Rica? “Hopefully,” according to beauty-pageant enthusiast Louie H. who relayed the news that Gustavo Segura, Costa Rica’s Minister of Tourism, is in talks with the Miss Universe Organization (MUO). “The first meeting was attended by the private sector and members of ICT (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo or Costa Rican Tourism Institute). The ICT appreciated how the Miss U pageant has evolved into a pageant which celebrates woman empowerment and leadership as well as spreads the correct values,” reported Louie H. Pending the resolution of certain concerns, the pageant is slated end of this year when the pandemic shall have been over.
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