Boomerang Bigot: Difference between revisions

* Officer Coffey in ''[[Boyz N the Hood]]'' is a black policeman who shows apathy and hostility to other blacks.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Officer Self Hatred]] in ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood]]'' is a [[Affectionate Parody|parody]] of Officer Coffey, and played by the late [[Bernie Mac]].

"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]].

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

* ''Get On The Bus'' has a [[Honest John's Dealership|successful car salesman]] who intially comes off as [[Positive Discrimination]] as he encourages a Black youth to focus on education to be successful... then in the same breath reveals he went to a "Real college and not some Nigger school," going on a whole Uncle Tom tirade that might as well be spoken by a Neo-Nazi with [[N-Word Privileges]] where he derides ''everything/everyone'' Black, reveals he's a Republican though [[Pet the Dog|pets the]] [[Twofer Token Minority|Threefer Black, gay Republican]] (yes the rest of the bus has the same reaction as you reading that) for the same politics regardless of sexual orientation, [[Kick the Dog|with the kicker being that he reveals he couldn't care less about the Million Man March]] [[Completely Missing the Point|the whole]] ''point'' [[Completely Missing the Point|of the trip]] and [[Money, Dear Boy|is only going to sell cars.]] He finally works their last nerve by telling a racist joke about "lesbians and niggers don't do dick" and is ''literally'' [[Asshole Victim|thrown off the bus into a ditch]] also by Bernie Mac.

* 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.

 

* ''[[Discworld]]''

** Played briefly as a gag in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' by the troll Detritus:

'''Detritus:''' Trolls. Nasty pieces of work in my opinion. }}

** His partner Cuddy (a dwarf) gets like this about dwarfs. It seems to be a symptom of joining the Watch: Once you join the watch no other labels apply to you, such as race or gender, so Detritus is not a troll, nor Cuddy a dwarf, they are watchmen.

* In ''[[Wild Arms 5]]'', Volsung is fanatically dedicated to making sure nobody ever "crosses the wall" between Veruni and human, despite {{spoiler|he himself being half-Veruni and half-human and hence a living example of crossing the wall}}.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', Morrigan has such a moment with Zathrian.

'''Zathrian:''' ''"Do not call me that, witch!"'' }}

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

* [[wikipedia:Uncle Ruckus|Uncle Ruckus]] from ''[[The Boondocks]]'' can be basically described as a black Klansman-wannabe.

* Played for laughs on ''[[The Simpsons]]'':

** ''The Simpsons'' also subverts this when Krusty comes to doubt his own credentials as a Jew:

** In the episode in which they want to throw out the illegal immigrants, Moe is one of the most vocal about it, but he is illegal himself.

** Another borderline example is when [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|one off the]] Duffman energetically proclaims at an Oktoberfest celebration [[Putting on the Reich|"This Reich will last a thousand beers! Oh, Ja!"]] Then under his breath, he mutters [[Only in It For the Money|"I do this, and I'm Jewish". ]]

* In the documentaries ''Eye of the Storm'' and ''A Classroom Divided'', the teacher did an experiment about bigotry by discriminating based on eye color. The boomerang involved occurred on the second day, where she stated that brown-eyed people were better than blue-eyed people, and that blue-eyed people were inferior and needed to be treated as such.

* Russian politician Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky leads the fanatical, anti-Semitic, anti-Western, Slavic-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. He is half-Jewish. When asked about this, he emphasizes it was only his father who was Jewish, not his mother, who was a Russian Slav.

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

* [[wikipedia:John Ausonius|John Ausonius]] born as Wolfgang Alexander Zaugg was the son of a Swiss father and a German mother who had both emmigrated to Sweden. As a kid he was bullied for not being Swedish. This had a profound impact on him, he changed his name, several times, to seem more Swedish, dyed his hair blond and wore blue contacts. It also gave him an intense hatred of foreigners and immigrants, and eventually he went on a shooting spree, killing one person and wounding ten. He was dubbed the Lasermannen because his gun had a laser sight on it.