why is the word kike a bad word for jews?

Answer 1

http://kpearson.faculty.tcnj.edu/Dictionary/kike.htm

Answer 2

Kike or kyke is a highly derogatory term used to refer to a Jew. It is the "most widespread" of the pejorative words for Jew and "has never lost its bite, and is not considered funny by contemporary Jews," according to the Interactive Dictionary of Racial Language

Answer 3

It is insulting, as it makes fun of them.

One theory holds that it derived from kikel, a Yiddish term for "circle". Immigrant Jews, unable to write their own names, signed legal documents with an "O" (similar to "X").

Answer 4

It derived from kikel, a Yiddish term for "circle". Immigrant Jews unable to write their own names signed legal documents with an "O" (similar to "X").

Answer 5

Kike is just like calling someone a ****** or ****

Answer 6

For the same reason the n-word is a bad word for blacks. It's cruel and demeaning.

Answer 7

Because they can't fight back at all. they let themselves get pushed around, they expect other's to do fight for them. I am Circumcised, but not Jewish. I am stingy with money, you have to these days. who cares why we all call each other names! In the U.S. if you call Pres. Bush an no-good S.O.B, most would agree with you. In England, if you call the Queen a *****! you get your ****/teeth kicked. but, jews won't do that!

Answer 8

because its racist, its a negative word used in negative context, to put a group of people down, make fun of them, distinguish them as being different not equals

Answer 9

it is similar to people calling Blacks the "n" word and Asians the "c" word

Answer 10

same as w*tback is for mexicans, or n*gger is for blacks...kike is meant to be demeaning and insulting...

Answer 11

IT's derogatory. like calling a white person a honky