When a group reaches the status of being generally despised by the majority culture. As the word nigger is meant as a derogatory expression towards Blacks, a "new nigger" indicates a group that is now widely despised where it wasn't not before.
The Tea Party is the new nigger on the left-wing American university campuses
By publicly announcing her admiration for capitalism and the American Founding Fathers in class, she became the new nigger in her professor's eyes
By publicly announcing her admiration for capitalism and the American Founding Fathers in class, she became the new nigger in her professor's eyes
by goodbooks September 12, 2012