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On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 10:05:44 -0500, Andrzej Matuch wrote:


> The funny part about Poles is that if you call any one of them a polock,
> they probably won't react. The term for a Pole in Poland is Polak. Being
> a Polak is a lot less insulting than being called a pole. As for kike,
> the term only makes sense considering how they would sign their
> documents on their arrival. They refused to draw an X since it was
> similar to Christ's crucifix so they would draw a circle called a kikel
> instead.

I had never heard that which led me to consult that infallible source of 
wisdom:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kike

"A variation or expansion of this theory published in Our Crowd (1967), by 
Stephen Birmingham, postulates that the term "kike" was coined as a put-
down by the assimilated U.S. Jews from Germany to identify eastern 
European and Russian Jews: "

I've seen that in action. For historical reasons Germans, Catholic, 
Reformed, and Jewish, were well established in upstate NY. After WWII many 
new people arrived that were derogatorily called DPs (displaced persons) 
The well established Jews were embarrassed by the backward Eastern Jews.

Around the time of 'Shoah' I'd watched another movie that focused on 
Germany. The same situation existed. The established German Jews thought 
of themselves as Germans and had no use for the kaftan wearing eastern 
Jews with their weird fur hats. Even in 'Mein Kampf' Hitler doesn't really 
start to rant until he talks about his time in Vienna exposed to the old 
fashioned eastern types. 

But we weren't into etymology. I've read some theories about the 
derivation of 'wop' but we just knew they all carried knives and were 
criminals. Even pizza was an exotic thing generally found in sleazy 
barrooms.  Some of the other slurs were easier to figure out.