It's literally the reason they are called kikes. Kike is short for kikel, which is Yiddish for circle, because the yids who couldn't sign their name wrote a circle instead of an x upon arrival, because the x looks too much like a cross.
I didn’t know this. Fascinating. So there was no inherently negative connotation associated with the term, initially, and it then became an offensive euphemism only after it accrued the baggage of goy pattern recognition. Everything old is new again.
It's literally the reason they are called kikes. Kike is short for kikel, which is Yiddish for circle, because the yids who couldn't sign their name wrote a circle instead of an x upon arrival, because the x looks too much like a cross.
I didn’t know this. Fascinating. So there was no inherently negative connotation associated with the term, initially, and it then became an offensive euphemism only after it accrued the baggage of goy pattern recognition. Everything old is new again.
How soon before Tic-Tac-Toe gets declared antisemitic?