hotep

hotep

English

Etymology

From the Egyptological pronunciation of Egyptian ḥtp.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtɛp/

Noun

hotep (plural hoteps)

1. (informal, derogatory) A subscriber to Afrocentric conspiracy theories.
   • 1993, "Mike Bowen", Black Intellectuals (was: Re: THE CASE AGAINST RAP MUSIC) (on newsgroup soc.culture.african.american)

     Dr. Ben gave me a good laugh. As a matter of fact I saw him at City College several years back with his crowd of 'hoteps'. […] He loves to beat up on the black bourgeios^[sic] and brought a few light skinned freshman girls to tears. He doesn't conceal his feelings about his ostracism and sometimes it can get rather tedious. But if you have a thousand bucks he'll show you the pyramids the way they are *supposed* to be seen, and things will be happy again.

   • Khari Jackson, my gender is My Gender (page 9)

     […] and while i'm at it, and i say this out of love for our people, i hope the self-identified “hoteps” and “Pro-Black” people who claim that queerness, trans and nonbinary identities were invented by the west learn from this history and do better […]

   • 2018, "[e-mail]", Re: The unbearable asymmetry of neo-Nazi bullshit--WAS: Summary of Australian Centurty^[sic]: JEWS somethin'...somethin... (on newsgroup aus.politics)

     At least half of the millenials^[sic] are alt-right. We have the alt-right and the black Hoteps uniting. Jews are on the run.