I saw anti semetic and racist stuff in my kids homework today....

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why are the x's always black??

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I used to work with a black chick named Yvette who thought that the black wire (negative) on a battery tester was the most racist thing she's ever seen. This was in the '80's, no doubt.

Fun fact: the epithet 'kike' comes from the Yiddish word for circle, kikel. Many immigrant Jews from Eastern Europe refused to mark an X on their papers, as that was seen to be related to the Cross. So they drew circles instead.

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Hardly a fact, since there are other theories as to the word origin that predate Ellis Island.

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I wasn't aware there were alternative explanations.

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If you must know, the German word for shite is kach, pronounced “cock”. The derivative ‘ka-ka ‘ is a juvenile slang from the same root. This is why Jews don’t take to the word especially well.

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The Spanish word for crap is caca.

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If you must know, the German word for shite is kach, pronounced “cock”.

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Gamecock fans are offended.

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The derivative ‘ka-ka ‘ is a juvenile slang from the same root.

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I thought caca was latin, Latino, for shite?

It is.