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Word: kike (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Equality means understanding that the use of the words "faggot," "dyke" or "queer" as derogatory terms in casual coversation is just as offensive as the use of "nigger" or "kike...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Exploding the Myth of Tolerance | 3/2/1989 | See Source »

Kilson, who teaches a course on ethnicity in American society, says he often uses the derogatory language to which minorities have traditionally been subjected as a way of making his point in the classroom. "I will use that language--wop or dago or nigger or kike--to make the point," he says. "Language that might shock the pedagogical discourse about the issue...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Sensitive Issues: A Classroom Dilemma | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...there is another story to those telegrams, one that has been mentioned only in passing. A signifigant portion of the pro-Ollie messages have contained racial slurs. Instead of reading simply "Go Ollie! Stop." a number have read, "Go Ollie! Show that kike, Jap, or Nigger." Underneath the public support of North are signs of the endemic racism that unfortunately is all too American...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: About Those Telegrams | 7/21/1987 | See Source »

Uspensky said that in the spring of 1978 he was attacked by "three hoodlums pretending to be drunk," who shouted "Lousy Kike" and "Damned anti-Soviet"--an attack he believes was instigated by the KGB, the Soviet secret police, who had harassed him since his release from prison. Although not Jewish, he pretended to be a Jew in order to obtain his exit visa more easily...

Author: By Bonnie Salomon, | Title: Coming Home | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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