hotep

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Hoteps

Etymology edit

From Egyptian

(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 edit

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

Noun edit

hotep (plural hoteps)

(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.