Considering the current controversy surrounding Rick Perry, if I ever run for public office, I’d better remove the stone from outside my house that reads “Kike’s Peak.”
PAD
Considering the current controversy surrounding Rick Perry, if I ever run for public office, I’d better remove the stone from outside my house that reads “Kike’s Peak.”
PAD
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Politicians doing stupid stuff during election season is like the non-biological equivalent of evolution, which is something to be grateful for or maybe it is a biological imperative wired into politicians.
Is there some other meaning to the word “kike” in your neighborhood that makes the name something other than a Jewish slur? I know Hicksville was so named for its founder and not to suggest that the Long Island town is full of, well, hicks.
(And me, I have the last name “Lynch,” which I’m glad is common enough not to just be associated with a heinous way of killing black people in the South. I’m sure David Lynch and Jane Lynch would agree with me.)
Does it only refer to racial murder? It has a pretty straight forward translation to spanish (Linchar as verb, Linchamiento as sustantive) but in my language it refers to all mob issued capital punishment.
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And does it come from the surname, like Boycott?
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By the way, Kike is a diminutive for Enrique (Henry)in spanish, so I am pretty sure there must be jewish families happily calling their sons Kike.
It can refer to all mob-issued capital punishment in English, as well. The murder of Joseph Smith is often called a lynching, for example.
But the racial murders were so common in US history that that’s the image most people have in mind when they hear the term.
When I think of lynching, I think of the wild west, not the south.
“And does it come from the surname, like Boycott?”
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It does, indeed.
But, oddly enough, the original meaning of “Lynch Law” was the exact opposite of that generally used today (of a mob taking the law into its own hands and ignoring due process); the original Judge Lynch was, indeed a judge (in Ireland, like Captain Boycott) who, despite public pressure and a mob (for some values of the word “mob”) trying to stop him, carried out the legally-adjudicated sentence of the court.
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(Some versions of the story claim that the condemned man was the Judge’s own son…)
When I was taking a law enforcement class years ago, the textbook said taht according to California law, Lynching specifically meant taking a suspect from the police by force. Hëll, technically, by that definition, breacking someone out of jail could be called “Lynching”
Shouldn’t that be Kike’s Peek?
All through last night’s Daily Show riff I was waiting for that line…
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J.
But PAD, you would be allowed to have such a sign, since you are of the minority sensitive to the appellation! Mr. Cain was able to use the ‘N’ word on Sunday, for the same reason! Such is political correctness in America today… 😉
Charlie
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You’re joking, but if you want to see stupidity in real life you should check out some of this clip.
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http://www.5min.com/Video/Barbara-Walters-Says-N-Word-on-The-View-517172908
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One of the guys at work showed us this tonight. Pretty much all of us agreed we wanted to slap the stupid out of that girl.
There isn’t actually any real controversy when it comes to this rock-thing. The media just wishes there was.
“Kike’s Peak?” As a Gentile, I say “OY!”
(P.S. Do not give that rock to Sabretooth)
The worst thing about PC is that racism became a fetishe. Words acquire more power than they should have, they’re now cursed magic worlds in a fantasy story. Rick Perry is guilty of going hunting in a place that has a cursed name, so now he is cursed too.
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This is all kinds of idiotic. Not that I’d be sad to see Perry go, of course.