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If done poorly, this trope can lead to [[Unfortunate Implications]], such as that being bigoted is okay as long as it's self-loathing bigotry or that a person must be prejudiced in the "right" way - otherwise they'll be a [[Category Traitor]].
A supertrope of [[Misanthrope Supreme]]. Also see [[Noble Bigot]], [[Pretend Prejudice]], [[Cultural Cringe]], [[Hunter of His Own Kind]], [[Humans Are Bastards]], [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]], [[Fox News Liberal]], [[Cultural Cringe]], [[Internalized Categorism]], [[N
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* 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 (Film)|Twilight]]''. Edward says "Never trust a vampire. Trust me."
* ''Get On The Bus'' has a [[Honest
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* A mild example in the Korean War film ''The Steel Helmet''. A North Korean [[Poisonous Captive|prisoner]] of war tries to turn Japanese-American soldier Tanaka against his comrades by appealing to his anger over his childhood in an internment camp. Tanaka gives him a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] that invokes some Asian stereotypes.
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* In the new ''[[Flash Gordon (TV)|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.
* ''[[
* On one episode of [[Seinfeld]] George's mother rejects the advice of Jerry's girlfriend Donna Chang because she finds out (having previously talked to the woman only on the phone) that Donna is not Chinese. "I don't want to take the advice of some girl from Long Island!" she shouts.
* ''[[Law and Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' did this with a [[Tragic Mulatto|half-Jewish]] [[Those Wacky Nazis|neo-Nazi]]. Likewise, one case had a Hispanic kid with neo-Nazi sympathies as a suspect. He swore to the detectives that he was fully Spanish with no mestizo blood, but he still looked quite delusional.
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* ''[[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 much softer version shows up in ''The Unconquerable Man'', an alternate-universe episode where Gaheris Rhade - the main character's Nietzschean second-in-command that betrayed him in the pilot - replaced Dylan (said main character). Gaheris ends up so bitter about how the Nietzscheans turned out that Harper (a character with little reason to be fond of Nietzscheans) calls him "the only one I know that hates Nietzscheans more than I do".
* A [[Fantastic Racism]] variant occurs on ''[[Heroes (TV)|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.
* Col. Potter on ''[[
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** Throughout the series she easily takes to human society and tools, such as human sorcery and technology, even ''before'' she gained her human transformation curse. She even started her own freaking company (named Nightstone)! For all of her hatred towards humans, Demona fits in far more with human civilization than she does with her fellow gargoyles. [[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes sense]], since after Canmore destroyed her (second) clan she's spent hundreds of years apparently without any other long-term gargoyle companionship.
* In the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "The Entity", Kyle's cousin Kyle Schwartz -- who is a walking touchstone of virtually every Jewish stereotype -- comes for a visit. Towards the end of the episode, Kyle catches himself criticizing his cousin's personality and exclaims "Oh my god! I'm a self-hating Jew!"
* Helga from ''[[Pasila]]'' is a female [[He
== Real Life ==
* As the George Carlin example above illustrates, white stand-up comedians who want to do insult humor are usually forced into this by a combination of [[N
* Ernst Röhm, co-founder of the Nazi SA (Hitler's private guard in the early years), was gay. As fascist movements are generally homophobic, he, along with other early members of the party, were killed in an intra-party purge called the "Night of the Long Knives", which consolidated Hitler's power by eliminating most of the people who could challenge his power (or were now an embarrassment). There are [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pink_Swastika conspiracy theories] that the Nazis were somehow a gay organization, but they don't really hold water.
** Although prior to The Night of Long Knives, Hitler and the Nazi Party had not adopted an aggressive stance towards homosexuality, and for some early anti-Nazis, e.g. among Catholics and the military, the Nazis' pre-1935 "acceptance" of homosexuals and in particular Röhm's prominent and high position in the party hierarchy were important or at least contributory reasons why they opposed Nazism. And for many in the military who started out distrusting Hitler, the Night of the Long Knives proved that he was okay after all. This included Stauffenberg, who eventually changed his mind again and in 1944 would attempt to blow Hitler up.
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** There's also "degreeism," where people of an oppressed group rank themselves by how closely they approach the oppressor group. For example, a masculine [[Straight Gay]] might hold consider himself above a more obvious [[Drag Queen]] or [[Leather Man]], or a highly Europeanized member of a colonized society might consider himself more "civilized" than his more traditional neighbors, etc.
* It's been said that nobody hates [[Furry Fandom|furries]] more than other furries. (This may be due in part to [[Stop Being Stereotypical]] attitudes toward the [[Vocal Minority]] of genuinely disturbing individuals within the fandom.)
* 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
* In the early 20th century, it was common for light-skinned African Americans to hold "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorism colorism]".
** A related phenomenon was the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom Uncle Tom] stereotype, also known as the 'House Negro' by [[Malcolm X]].
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* Misanthropists.
* Any white person who expresses support for the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance was an eschatological movement from the American West in late nineteenth century which says that, if all the Indians dance, Indians will grow really tall. And then comes the flood, followed by shrinking back to normal size to see all one's ancestors revived, and then people, no longer ashamed, will strip off their clothing and start living as the ancestors. That's the short version; it has more [[Gainax Ending]] qualities to it, of course. But wait...what about everybody else? Dead.
** When Navajo medicine men were approached by Ghost Dance leaders, they (possibly because the Navajo conception of ghosts makes J-Horror movies look like [[Casper the Friendly Ghost]]) rather firmly rebuffed the overtures. One is reported to have described the Ghost Dance as "Nothing but worthless words." That, and, well, they already had a dance—When the Two Went to Their Father, AKA the Enemy Way—for killing foreigners. Unlike the Ghost Dance, it's just an ad-hoc blessing for warriors going out to a particular fight, and has no complicated eschatological theories (although it does involve channeling the god [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|He Kills Hostile Gods]]).
* One could say "Forrest Carter" of ''[[The Education Of Little Tree]]'' fame claimed to be this. But he was really white, explaining his Ku Klux Klan connections.
* It's worth noting that on the ultra pro-Israeli website ''[[Israel Insider]]'', any Jewish person who goes on the talk forums and who dares voice even the slightest reservation as to Israel's domestic or foreign policies, or to challenge settlement building in the occupied territories or land-grabs from Palestinians, or anything Israel is doing in the name of the Jewish people and religion, is invariably flamed and accused of being a "self-hating Jew".
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* [[HP 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.
* Notorious neo-Nazi and certified kook Ernst Zündel is technically a Jew under Jewish law, and once tried to use this fact to enter Israel. [[Laser
* ''[[Lost (TV)|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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