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{{quote|''Canadians are ''so apathetic'' at times! [sigh] But... [[Hypocritical Humor|whaddaya gonna do?]]''|'''Glen Foster''', Canadian comedian. }}
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The Boomerang Bigot is a character who thinks that all members of Group X are an inferior race/species... [[Internalized Categorism|even while being a member of Group X themselves]]. Despite the obvious contradiction, the Boomerang Bigot doesn't see anything wrong with their view, and will continue to proudly persecute Group X.
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
Such behavior almost always occurs [[Hypocritical Humor|for laughs]]. If not... be afraid.
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== Literature ==
* Joe Christmas from Faulkner's ''[[Light In August]]'' has serious issues, among them, he is white; he thinks he's biracial, but doesn't fit in black or white society. He has contempt for black people in particular.
* 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
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** Played briefly as a gag in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' by the troll Detritus:
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** Toyvo Glumov in ''The Time Wanderers''.
* Voldemort in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. One of the goals of the Death Eaters was the elimination of any wizard who wasn't pure blooded, specially if they were muggleborn, but Voldemort himself was a half-blood. But then, he ''is'' based off [[Adolf Hitler]].
** Snape as
* Queen Jehana in the [[Deryni]] works becomes this after {{spoiler|she tries to use her Deryni powers to protect her son from Charissa at his coronation}}. She fervently believes the Deryni powers are evil, and after [[The Reveal]] at the coronation she goes into self-imposed exile in a remote convent, fasting to the point of noticeable weight loss. She tries to warn Nigel's wife Meraude of the taint of the Haldane powers, exhorting her sister-in-law to keep Nigel safe. She entertains hopes of finding a human wife for Kelson to "redeem" him, and she's rude and hostile to Rothana when she thinks the young novice is too close to her son.
* In ''Sewer, Gas and Electric'', the racist who plotted {{spoiler|with GAS the supercomputer}} to unleash a plague that kills only black people has a black distant ancestor. Partially subverted in that he didn't show any ''visible'' sign of African ancestry; nonetheless, his "one drop"-caliber bigotry led him to design the plague to spare anyone with green eyes like him, for fear it would latch onto that "one drop" and kill him too.
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== Music ==
* The [[Blue Öyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]] got into critical trouble with a song called "ME 262", a song about the last days of [[WW 2]] seen from the viewpoint of a Luftwaffe fighter pilot tasked at the behest of Hitler and Goering with knocking down ''English planes'' and seeing them ''go burnin'''. This song, with its interludes of air-raid sirens, bombs exploding and marching jackboots, was held to be a fan-anthem to Nazism, and accusations the band members were closet Nazis failed to take into account that three of them are in fact Jewish. This was either heavy-metal gormlessness of the [[Up to Eleven]] variety, or just maybe a case of
* [[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]].
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{{quote|"I thought I was a self-hating Jew, but it turns out I'm just another anti-Semite!"}}
** 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".
* On one episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', there's a group of mostly white Hipsters who move into the neighborhood after Peggy agrees to rent them a house, who have a strong aversion to other white people.
* On ''[[Gargoyles]],'' Demona is an interesting case. She's a gargoyle who wants to [[Kill All Humans]] for nearly wiping out her species, but when she asks [[Literal Genie]] [[Trickster Archetype|Puck]] to make her not turn to stone during the day (as gargoyles do), he grants her request by [[Be Careful What You Wish For|making her turn into a]] ''[[Be Careful What You Wish For|human]]'' from dawn to dusk every day. Notably, this doesn't stop
** 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
* Helga from ''[[Pasila]]'' is a female [[He-Man Woman Hater]] (with an emphasis on "he-man", even though that's not even part of the trope), taking after her father who never remotely accepted her.
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* 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 [[wikipedia: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.
* It could be said Hitler himself was also a
** 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.
* Tomás de Torquemada certainly had Jewish ancestry, and [[Richard Wagner]] reputedly did as well. (Torquemada may not quite count. He was theoretically persecuting a belief not an ancestry and ancestry would presumably be irrelevant to that. Of course he was primarily persecuting Jewish converts for allegedly lying about their conversions based on the "evidence" that they were born Jews. So whatever.)
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