nigcel

English

Etymology

Blend of nigger +‎ incel. By surface analysis, nig +‎ -cel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪɡsɛl/

Noun

nigcel (countable and uncountable, plural nigcels)

1. (incel slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person who is an incel.
   • [2020 November 19, Sade Spence, “What is a Nigcel?”, in StayHipp.com‎^[1], archived from the original on 2021-11-21:

     Nigcel is a play on the word incel, which stands for “involuntary-celibate.” This term refers to a subculture of men who are typically white males.]

   • 2021 March 1, Misandrynoir, “Our Obsession with Redeeming Men”, in Medium‎^[2], archived from the original on 2021-03-03:

     Nigcels were being described as a particular type of Black “man”. He, in the logic offered in the room, is one that could be rehabilitated out of their violent ideology. Nigcels are a radicalized Black man, not a “real” or “good” Black “man”.

   • 2021 March 11, Stanley Fritz, “I Almost Became an Nigcel Because I Couldn't Get a Girlfriend”, in Let's Not Be Trash‎^[3], archived from the original on 2022-04-29:

     They’re often characterized by resentment, misogyny, misanthropy, self-pity and self-loathing, racism, a sense of entitlement to sex, and the endorsement of violence against sexually active people.” I was becoming that, but the Black version. A Nigcel.

   • 2021 September 13, Ann Brown, “What Is A Bullet Bag? Inside The New Liberal Smear Against Black Men”, in The Moguldom Nation‎^[4], archived from the original on 2021-10-11:

     After thousands & thousands of comments from nigcels objectifying & villainizing me I’ve come to the conclusion that I no longer have the capacity to have empathy for cis straight black men.

Further reading

• Bogetić, Ksenija (2022 June 1) “Race and the language of incels: Figurative neologisms in an emerging English cryptolect”, in English Today‎^[5], volume 39, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, archived from the original on 2022-06-08, pages 1-11