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{{quote|''Canadians are ''so apathetic'' at times! [sigh] But... [[Hypocritical Humor|whaddaya gonna do?]]''|'''Glen Foster''', Canadian comedian. }}

 

 

Differs from [[You Are What You Hate]] in that there is no secrecy or self-doubt involved. The Boomerang Bigot ''knows'' they're a member of the targeted group—and others know it, too—but remains unabashed about holding their views, possibly in an odd form of [[Honor Before Reason]].

 

A supertrope of [[Misanthrope Supreme]]. Also see [[Noble Bigot]], [[Pretend Prejudice]], [[Cultural Cringe]], [[Hunter of His Own Kind]], [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]], [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]], [[Fox News Liberal]], [[Cultural Cringe]], [[Internalized Categorism]], [[N-Word Privileges]], and [[Female Misogynist]]. [[Gayngst]] and [[Armoured Closet Gay]] are related tropes for self-hating gays and lesbians, and [[Effeminate Misogynistic Guy]] for a less direct form of boomerang-bigotry. See also [[Self-Deprecation]].

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* [[Fairy Tail]] has Porlyusica, who hates humans.

"I hate my gums, 'cause THEY black." }}

* ''The Believer'' is about an Orthodox Jew who becomes a neo-Nazi. Based loosely on [[wikipedia:Dan Burros|Dan Burros]].

* The seventh member of ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' really hates farmers, though is himself a farmer.

* In ''[[The Seven Samurai]]'', the seventh ronin, played by Toshiro Mifune, actually comes from a peasant background. He hates peasants for being victims and samurai for being bullies.

* In ''[[Robots]]'' Ratchet's mother Madame Gasket who wants to destroy all older "outmode" robots. While oblivious to the fact she is made of "outmode" parts.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]''. Edward says "Never trust a vampire. Trust me."

** 71-Hour Ahmed doesn't trust any Klatchians, ''because'' he is one. He actually has to point out to Vimes, who's engaging in some pretty heavy [[Positive Discrimination]] (to counteract the regular-old discrimination that he thinks will get everyone killed by underestimation), that Klatchians can be scheming bastards too.

** In ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' Captain Carrot mentions that a troll, Calcite, has joined a gang that was formed primarily to beat up trolls, apparently because he likes to beat up trolls as well.

** The Hydrophobes are deliberately raised to hate all liquids, including their own body fluids. This aversion becomes so powerful it forms a repulsion field around the hydrophobe, practical for magic transports on water.

** In a sadder example, one of the dwarves in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' ''hates'' Cheery, a dwarf who openly admits she's female (most dwarf women don't). The dwarf in question is a woman herself, and is jealous of how Cheery's allowed to be who she really is.

* In the [[Strugatsky Brothers]] novel ''[[Prisoners of Power]]'' it turns out that the political junta which ordered the persecution of the "deviants" is composed entirely of deviants itself. They don't do it out of bigotry though - {{spoiler|deviants are the only members of the populace who are immune to the [[Mind Control]] which the junta uses to stay in power.}}

** Toyvo Glumov in ''The Time Wanderers''.

 

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Chappelle's Show]]'' had a skit called "Black White Supremacist" set in the [[Deep South]]. Clayton Bigsby is a blind black man who grows up under the impression that he is white; he becomes a prominent [[You Are What You Hate|white supremacist writer and Klan leader]]. His fellow Klan members never see him out of his robes (and those that do know he's black don't tell him in fear he would kill himself so there will be one less black person in the world), and when he finally finds out he's black, he leaves his wife, [[Crosses the Line Twice|accusing her of being a "nigger lover"]].

** {{spoiler|Chief Tyrol}} counts in a way as well; his own Cylon revelation only deepened his [[Misanthropy]] - particularly towards himself. For him it's justified though, given everything that happened with {{spoiler|Boomer}}.

* In the new ''[[Flash Gordon (TV series)|Flash Gordon]]'' series, Ming was extremely tough on [[Mutants|Deviants]] and was of course himself a Deviant. He did his best to keep this fact hidden, though.

* Done as kind of a joke on ''[[Dollhouse]]'' when Sierra is imprinted with the personality of someone who doesn't seem to like "Orientals." Or at least, she ''says'' she doesn't like them...but she does seem to in some ways, given how she [[Les Yay|hit on Ivy]]. We're [[Noodle Incident|never really told]] what that engagement involved.

* ''[[Noah's Arc]]'': Wade is this early on, with a very vocal aversion to gays despite being gay himself.

** Of course, since (according to some historians) modern anti-Semitism got its start in Spain's ''limpieza de sangre'' ideology, this may not be as ironic as it first appears.

* ''[[Andromeda]]'' had a radical group bent on destroying space travel in order to preserve planetary ecologies. It was founded by a warship's AI.

* A [[Fantastic Racism]] variant occurs on ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' during Volume 4, with Nathan and {{spoiler|Mohinder. Mohinder, of course, had [[Psycho Serum|personal]] [[My God, What Have I Done?|reasons]] for feeling that way. . .}}

* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', {{spoiler|Ankh becomes this towards the end of the series in regards to the Greeed. Despite being one himself, he's come to see the Greeed's main goal of becoming complete as an empty effort without [[And Then What?|thinking about what they'll do after they are whole again]], as it doesn't even sate their ever present desire. In this case, it's more of the actions rather than the species, as he admits even he acted that way and hates himself for it. He also gets seriously frustrated over the fact that the other Greeed seem completely incapable of seeing his point of view. Unlike many examples, he actually has a very good point, as his goal is now to actually sate his desire instead of letting it run wild.}}

* ''[[Smallville]]'': Tess Mercer in Seasons 8 & 9 was this trope...towards humanity in general. She unleashed Zod and the Kryptonian clones expressly because [[Animal Wrongs Group|she hoped that they would be better stewards of the planet]] and that having the Kryptonians in charge, rather than her fellow humans, would allow Earth to become some kind of paradise (apparently, she missed the memo that the Kryptonians inadvertently ''destroyed'' their own planet and themselves in the process). But when it becomes clear that Zod is just as corrupt and evil as any human dictator, Tess realizes her error, and moves away from this trope in Season 10.

 

 

== Music ==

* [[Rammstein]] too has been accused of Nazism, to the point of becoming [[Trope Namer]] of [[Music to Invade Poland To]]. If this were true they would be a band consisting primary of [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Nazi Marxist Jews]].

 

** Players are also required to expose and terminate secret society members. Of course, they're also members of a secret society, just like everyone else in the game. (They genuinely do hate the secret societies that directly rival their own; the most common pairs of enemies are Anti-Mutant vs. Psion and Corpore Metal vs. Frankenstein Destroyers.)

* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'': Banishers really, ''really'' hate mages, despite the fact that the two groups went on the same trip to the Supernal Realms and came back with knowledge of magic. The differences is that while regular mages viewed the experience as akin to religious awakening, Banishers viewed it as more like [[Mind Rape]] and feel an instinctive revulsion every time they use magic.

 

== Video Games ==

** ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' can see the ''player'' turn into this if they choose to play as a Mage and side with the Templars.

* The Pope in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' is fiercely anti-half-elf. Ironically, he used to support the cause of half-elf equality, and even fell in love with an elf. But when their daughter was born and her mother died, he found himself growing more hateful and terrified of her differences, coming to understand the perspective of the people who hated half-elves, and he started to support them instead.

* in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: Up Your Arsenal'', Dr. Nefarious hates and aims to destroy all organic lifeforms despite formerly being one himself before getting his current robotic body.

* In ''[[Deus Ex]]'', the augmented player character can choose to side with anti-augmentation zealots in ''Human Revolution'' and ''Invisible War.''

 

* 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.

* [http://www.bash.org/?110 This guy] on [[bash.org]].

 

 

* It could be said Hitler himself was also a Boomerang Bigot, because he did not fit his own definition of the "Aryan race" he deemed superior to all other men—and to this day recent DNA results say that he had some "Non-Aryan" ancestry (though others insist it's opposition propaganda). It has also been seriously suggested that he may have been in a relationship with Albert Speer, his chief architect.

** Heinrich Himmler did not meet the SS entry requirements for "racial hygene" and phsyical fitness. He also talked of how the SS must "harden their hearts" and grin and bear the moral and mental consequences of murdering millions, but the only time he ever watched an ''Einsatzgruppe'' in action, he was so appalled by the sight of blood that he became hysterical.

* The French answer to Torquemada was [[wikipedia:Pierre de Lancre|Pierre de Lancre]], a 17th century judge of Bordeaux and despiser supreme of everything Basque, who was well aware nonetheless that he was Basque himself.

* Anyone [[Cultural Cringe|cynical enough about their own country]] (countrymen, specifically) will probably start becoming this. c.f. page quote.

** For that matter, [[Misanthrope Supreme|anyone]] who believes [[Humans Are the Real Monsters]].

* In sociology and psychology, this is called "[[Internalized Categorism|internalized oppression]]" - where a member of a group comes to believe stereotypes about their own group. They may believe themselves to be an exception to the stereotypes, or they may hate their own group as a result.

* In Hawai'i ''haoles'' (pronounced "howlies"), or white people, are often subjected to harassment, name calling and (in a few cases) even outright violence by ''local'' people. Local usual means Asians and Native Hawaiians, though oddly enough it also includes the rather large Portuguese community for some reason (perhaps they see themselves as Hispanic, which effectively gives them white [[N-Word Privileges]]). [[You Are What You Hate|Also many Native Hawaiian activists could probably spend the better part of the afternoon talking about how "the ''haoles'' stole our land". This seems almost odd when you consider that nearly 60% of all people in Hawai'i (and about 99% of all Native Hawaiians) are of mixed race and nearly all of them have at least ''some'' Caucasian ancestry.]]

* In the early 20th century, it was common for light-skinned African Americans to hold "[[wikipedia:Paper Bag Party|paper bag parties]]" in which only those with skin lighter than a brown paper bag would be allowed in. The goal was to exclude darker-skinned African Americans and is considered an example of "[[wikipedia:Colorism|colorism]]".

* The Filipinos have a long history of having this kind of bigot, with [[Cultural Cringe|their cynical views toward their own country]] and strong exposure to foreign influences. It has been known in the Spanish era that some Filipinos strove to look like Spaniards. (There was an old joke that may have been truer than it seems that some Filipinos pinched their noses with clothes hangers to try to make their noses sharp, like those of Spanish blood.) Similar cases followed after the Americans' arrival and when the Chinese-Filipinos came into prominence. Early Filipino films promoted Filipinized modern American lives, Western movies, and even Medieval stories, preferring the latter two over actual Philippine historical settings. Up to now certain Filipinos define their worth by their ability to speak fluent English or Chinese (with foreign accents), embrace Western or Chinese culture, being able to visit Western countries (namely the USA), or to have Western or Chinese physical features (skin whitening soaps are very popular up to this writing), coupled with how much they have renounced their Philippine heritage with abhorrence. Any person of this type who gets even a small taste of any of these "privileges" would act like he never had Filipino blood at all and would be quick to openly show scorn for other Filipinos.

* Hipsters who hate other Hipsters for being Hipsters.

{{quote|"Why should I reject Russian blood, Russian culture, Russian land, and fall in love with the Jewish people only because of that single drop of blood that my father left in my mother's body?"}}

* [[wikipedia:Dan Burros|Dan Burros]] was a Jewish member of the American Nazi Party. His colleagues knew about his heritage.

* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] was anti-Semitic and anti-miscegenation. However, he knowingly married a Jewish woman.

* Most leaders of communist governments came from wealthy, or at least middle-class, backgrounds.

* ''[[Lost]]'' actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Mr. Eko) was one of these in his youth. As a teenager, he [http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/may/13/adewale-akinnuoye-agbaje-interview joined a skinhead gang], acting as a sort of brutal attack dog.

* Adam Carolla often criticizes government entitlements for families and children such as free lunch programs at schools. However, he and his mother lived off welfare when he was a child.

 

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