hotep

English

Etymology
From Egyptian
Htp
t p
(ḥtp, “to be content, at peace; contentment, peace”), a common element of Ancient Egyptian personal names, with the vowels taken over from its descendant, Coptic ϩⲱⲧⲡ̄ (hōtp̄); Ancient Egypt is the focus of several Afrocentric conspiracy theories.

Pronunciation
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhəʊ.tɛp/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhoʊ.tɛp/
  • Hyphenation: ho‧tep

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)”, in soc.culture.african.american (Usenet):
      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.
    • 2016, 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, 4meg...@gmail.com, “Re: The unbearable asymmetry of neo-Nazi bullshit--WAS: Summary of Australian Centurty[sic]: JEWS somethin'...somethin...”, in aus.politics (Usenet):
      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.
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