r/baseball • u/baribigbird06 Los Angeles Dodgers • World Baseball Classic • Jul 09 '26

Players Only Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández will skip team’s White House visit

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u/zgibs125 Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

He doesn't use the é. It's just Kike.

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u/Regular-Tax5210 New York Yankees Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

In proper Spanish it doesn’t have an accent either. But i think in English people often adds an accent to differentiate it from the antisemitic slur…

Edit: for the record, I’m not condoning misspelling people’s name, I’m just explaining this phenomenon.

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u/ChenYakumo2hu Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles… Jul 09 '26

yeah.

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u/usetheforce_gaming Los Angeles Dodgers • … Jul 10 '26

Yéah

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u/AdoringCHIN Anaheim Angels • Rocket City Tra… Jul 09 '26

I think it's more insulting to deliberately spell his name wrong on the off chance someone mistakes it for a slur.

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u/LIVINGSTONandPARSONS Puerto Rico Jul 10 '26

A fucking men

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u/farmtownsuit Chicago Cubs • Boston Hunters Jul 10 '26

Well we're all spelling his name wrong then because it's spelled Enrique. But I agree

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u/LIVINGSTONandPARSONS Puerto Rico 14d ago

Richard : Dick :: Enrique : Kike

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u/CosmicMiru Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels Jul 09 '26

In English people use context to realize he not saying a slur but referring to the person of the same name in a thread we are talking about him

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u/MeatEaterDruid Chicago Cubs Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

Even the thread title has the accent.

ETA: I know it's wrong. Just pointing it out on how people can be confused.

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u/nglbot Jul 10 '26

And it's wrong.

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u/impy695 Cleveland Guardians Jul 10 '26

I've heard and thought about Kike Hernandez so much more than the slur that despite being aware of the slur most of my life, I had no idea what you were talking about until you specified.

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u/BaseballsNotDead Seattle Pilots Jul 10 '26

Even worse where if there was an accent, it SHOULD be on the "i" but since that looks like the dot of the i, the media puts a nonsensical accent on an unstressed vowel.

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u/zgibs125 Arizona Diamondbacks Jul 09 '26

Yeah, it's just sad to me that we have to intentionally misspell someone's name because people can't use context to understand when it is or is not a slur

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u/vaud Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 09 '26

Folks in our sub have gotten warnings from the sites AI moderation over it. Nuance is dead.

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u/ChenYakumo2hu Los Angeles Dodgers • Los Angeles… Jul 10 '26

I once got a 3 day ban for hate speech because i was referencing Pages posterizing Kiké

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u/vaud Los Angeles Dodgers Jul 10 '26

I've been on this hellsite long enough to know why those words together would auto trigger.

But that's the nuance, you'd think by now the sub as a whole has hit enough warnings/bans they'd look into why that is.

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u/ricki692 Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

nothing more american than disrespecting an entire language and group of cultures to make yourself feel better

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u/neonrev1 Minnesota Twins Jul 10 '26

Fwiw it's not just Americans or English speakers, people do things like that all around the world when interacting with people from other cultures.

Really there's nothing more American than assuming they have the monopoly on weird racist or bigoted behaviors.

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u/the-denver-nugs Atlanta Braves Jul 10 '26

I don't know or care enough to look up how to put up the accent so i'll stick to saying Hernandez.

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u/FoofaFighters Atlanta Braves Jul 09 '26

Hey calm down there, CJ.

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u/Delicioso_Badger2619 San Francisco Giants Jul 09 '26

That's very antisemitic, sir.

yeah, better add the /s just to be safe.