Boomerang Bigot: Difference between revisions

* Deconstructed in Philip Roth's ''The Human Stain''. Professor Coleman Silk's long and distinguished tenure is brought to sudden ruin when he is accused of making a racist comment about two black students. Coleman is the only person who can really appreciate the awful irony of this accusation, because he is a light-skinned black man who spent his entire adult life pretending he was white, going so far as to disown his family so that they don't exist as a fact of his past others could discover. Since the accusation was perpetrated from within the Athena faculty by his personal enemies, if they knew the truth about his race, they would almost certainly believe him to be a Boomerang Bigot instead of the straightforward variety they accused him of being.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

{{quote|'''Detritus:''' You can't trust 'em.

'''Skully:''' Who?

== [[Web Original]] ==

* A hilarious variation occurs in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' when [[Land Down Under|Brendan Wallace]] laments about how America brought the whole terrorist plot down on themselves, and blames them for everything. He then proceeds to mentally list off his friends, claiming they didn't do anything to deserve this... who are all Americans.

* In episode 4, volume 2 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Roman gives a rather flamboyant speech full of anti-human rhetoric in front of a crowd of White Fangs, condemning humanity's greed and hatred, particularly their leadership. This at first suggests this Trope, but in truth, it's an act; he's simply [[Pandering to the Base]] in order to sway them to his side, as the White Fangs aren't too fond of humans. And several episodes later, Roman shows that he really doesn't like them either.