ANTI-SEMITISM a prejudice or discrimination against Jews, based on negative perceptions of their religious beliefs or on negative group stereotypes. Anti-Semitism can also be a form of racism, as when Nazis and others consider Jews an inferior “race”.

CRACKER:

1. A poor, white person in some parts of the southern United States who, perhaps, could only afford to eat crackers.
2. The most common explanation for the origin of this phrase is that it is from corncracker, or someone who distills corn whiskey (cracking corn is to crush it into a mash for distillation). The song lyric "Jimmy Crack Corn" is a reference to this. In the song a slave sings about his master got drunk, fell, hit his head, and died. And the slave "don't care." The usage, however, is probably not the origin of the term cracker.
3. More likely is that it is from an early sense of crack meaning to boast. This sense dates to the 16th century. A 1766 quote in the OEO2 gives the origin of cracker as boastful. (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language)
4. a small firework
5. a slang term used by 19th century Georgian slaves to refer to the cracking of the slavemaster's whip.
6. a white person (Dictionary of Afro-American Slang by Clarence Major)

DAMN: Middle English (dampnen), from Old French (dampner), from Latin (damnare), from damum damage, loss, fine (13th Century). Expression of annoyance, disgust or surprise; to condemn to a punishment; to bring ruin on (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2001)

FAGGOT:

1. Slang term for an effeminate, homosexual male.
2. A bundle of sticks. During the European Inquisition in the 14th century, witches were burned at the stake. When the bundles of sticks diminished, Homosexuals males were thrown on the fire to keep it burning.
3. Derived from the 16th century Italian word fa(n)gotto meaning a disagreeable woman
4. Possibly dervived from the Yiddish word, fagele, meaning little bird.
5. Burden or baggage

FUCK: originally recorded in German as early as the 12th century from "ficken" (to strike). First recorded in English in the 15th century. Its first occurrence; in a poem entitled, "Fenflyys" written sometime before 1500 in code, illustrating the unacceptability of the word even then. It satirized the Carmelite friars of Cambridge, England. Once decoded, the first line of the poem reads:"They are not in heaven because they fuck wives of Fly (a town near Cambridge)." <http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.p?tem=fuck>

1. to have sexual intercourse with
2. to victimize
3. used in the imperative as a signal of angry dismissal
4. (urban legend): For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was an upshot of Victorian England's need for euphemisms. When porstitutes were arrested the good constables, in the interest of expediency, began entering F.U.C.K. in their police blotters.

HOMOPHOBIA: a prejudice against homosexuals (gays and lesbians) which can lead to discrimination and violence against homosexuals or people perceived as homosexual.

JACKASS:

1. A donkey. Mississippi farmer Dan Grogen was credited with using this term in 1939
2. an insult (Webster's Dictionary, 1992).

KIKE:

1. from the Yiddish kikel~ a circle; the mark used by some illiterate Jewish immigrants rather than a cross-when signing papers at Ellis Island
2. from kieken: to peep and linked to Jewsih American clothes manufacturers who 'peeped' at smarter European fashions and produced mass-market knockoffs, popular among their poor customers (Words Apart:The Language of Prejudice by Jonathon Green)
3. vulgarity referring to a Jewish person originally coined by the German Jews to use against Russian Jews. It comes from the "k" sound at the end of many Russian Jewish names such as Lewinsky or Lencoff. (from Etymologically Speaking by Steven Friedman)

NIGGER: The obsolete spelling "niger" dates back to 1574 dervied from the Latin word meaning black

1. comes from the Latin root for black. The word was used in both England and America around the 17th century. Around 1825, abolitionists and blacks began feeling the word was hurtful to them. After the Civil War, the word "nigger" became the most commonly used term to describe the blacks. Even though the word was at first not meant to offend, such powerful white men as George Conrad continually used it during public speaking and argued that the word was not meant to be offensive.
2. Phonetic spelling of the white southern pronunciation of "Negro".
3. Term used by African captives to describe themselves, in many cases without attaching a stigma to the word.

PICNIC:

1. Internet lore (and perhaps folklore prior to the internet) has the origin of this word as lynching party for blacks in the American South, originally deriving from the phrase pick an nigger. This is absolutely incorrect. The word's origins have no racial overtones whatsoever. In actuality, it derives from the French pique-nique meaning the same thing as it does in English-an outing that includes food. Pique is either a reference to a leisurely style of eating ("as in pick at your food") or its reference to selective delicacies chosen for the outing. Nique is a nonsense syllable chosen to rhyme. The word appears in English as early as 1748 in reference to picnics in Germany. The word did not gain widespread use in Britain until Britain until c.1800. <http://www.witton.net/etymal.htm>
2. French word, pique-nique, which first appeared at the end of the seventeenth century. It referred to a fashionable type of social entertainment in which each person who attended brought a share of food.

RACISM: a prejudice or discrimination based on the belief that race is the primary factor determining human traits and abilities. Racism holds that genetic, or inherited, differences produce the inherent superiority or inferiority of one race to another.

RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY: a prejudice or discrimination against all members of a particular religious group based on negative perceptions of their religious beliefs and practices or on negative group stereotypes.

SEXISM: a prejudice or discrimination based on gender

SPIC:

1. coined around the beginning of the 20th century, referring to Spaniards, Italians, Mexicans, Filipinos, Pacific Islanders and Latin Americans and Mediterraneans in general; appears to come from the phrase "no spicka da English"; additional theories link it to spaghetti, the stereotypical Italian food.
2. a person from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Spain. Derogatory [US] <http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/s.htm>
3. of Spain and its languages, also spelled "Spick"

WHORE: to associate or have sexual relations with prosititutes, to accept payment in exchange for sexual relations. The common Germanic word horaz had the underlying meaning of "one who desires" and/or "adulterer". (American Heritage Dictionary)

WOP:

1. comes from the word "guapo" (Spanish)/ "guappo" (Italian) meaning handsome. The word came to mean handsome scoundrel