This is true, and it has a long history. The insult 'kike' for Jews came from German Jews for Eastern European Jews fleeing pogroms, as they had contempt for these people who could not even write their own name and therefore signed with a circle (kyklos in Greek). They were religious, so they thought an X would be blasphemous.
This is true, and it has a long history. The insult 'kike' for Jews came from German Jews for Eastern European Jews fleeing pogroms, as they had contempt for these people who could not even write their own name and therefore signed with a circle (kyklos in Greek). They were religious, so they thought an X would be blasphemous.