Discriminate and Switch: Difference between revisions

 

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* An early episode of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' has a white [[Career Killers|hitman]] telling his black partner that his kind are scum, fit only to serve others. The catch is that the black partner is a Contractor, essentially an amoral living weapon. The scene is probably a [[Lampshade Hanging]] on how [[Fantastic Racism]] is often used as a blatant parallel to actual racism.

* In the ADV Films [[Gag Dub]] of ''[[Ghost Stories]]'', while the protagonists are defeating the [[Monster of the Week]], a pet bunny rabbit which has brought back to life, turned into a giant rabbit monster, and is chasing after its former caretaker, the caretaker says to her former pet

{{quote|"Shirotabi, please forgive me for bringing you back to life! I know now that it could never work between us. As much as we want it to, it could never be! Not because you're a rabbit, but because you're '''''BLACK!'''''"}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Astonishing X-Men]]'':

{{quote|'''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]]:''' Didn't they come up with a cure for your kind?

* In an ''[[Archie Comics]]'' story from [[The Sixties]], Veronica, seeing Chuck and Jughead some distance away, tells Archie she doesn't want "his kind" at her upcoming party. Archie assumes she's prejudiced against blacks and launches into a tirade, saying if Chuck isn't welcome there, "you can take your party and [[Totally Radical|go plumb to blazes. Dig?]]" Veronica explains that Chuck is most welcome at the party, and that by "his kind" she meant Jughead, who's a "slob." Somehow this mollifies Archie, [[Fridge Logic|despite Jughead being his best friend]].

* In ''[[Elf Quest]]'', white elf chief Cutter is lifemate to black elf Leetah. The series' [[Big Bad]], Winnowill, likes to call Leetah her "dark sister" and at one point starts a discussion with her about race. It turns out all elves consider skin color to be purely aesthetic - the discussion is actually about Cutter's animal heritage, which Winnowill considers ''vile''.

 

== Film ==

* In the American remake of ''[[Death at a Funeral]]'' Elaine, a black woman is going to her uncle's funeral accompanied by her white fiance Oscar who is ''extremely'' aware that his prospective father in law hates him, the implication being that it is because he doesn't want a white man marrying his daughter. Actually it turns out Elaine's father just hates Oscar because he thinks Oscar is an idiot and he wanted Elaine to marry her ex, Derek, who is ''also'' white.

* In ''[[Rush Hour]] 3'', Detective Carter, played by Chris Tucker, enters a taxi cab in France, and the driver remarks he won't serve "his kind"—meaning ''Americans'', not black people.

 

== Literature ==

* Vlad Taltos, of the ''[[Dragaera]]'' novels, is occasionally shocked when a Dragaeran despises him for being a Jhereg, as opposed to being an Easterner.

* In the ''[[Dalziel and Pascoe]]'' novels, DC Shirley Novello discovers that when the CID team go to the pub, she is always expected to fetch the drinks no matter whose round it was and assumes this is because she is a woman. She later discovers that it is simply a custom that the lowest ranking officer present has to get the drinks in.

* In Shannon Donnely's ''Proper Conduct,'' Nevin assumes Penelope's aloof and unfriendly attitude towards him is because he's half-Roma. It's actually because his (white) father is responsible for her family's dire financial straits.

 

* Diane on ''[[Cheers]]'' claims to have integrated her sorority. Turns out the oppressed masses for whom she secured membership were... girls with poorly publicized coming-out parties.

* In ''[[Gimme A Break]]'' a black female character was rejected for a job, and she thought it was because she was black. So while she was bringing discrimination charges, several black (male) employees seemed to gratuitously walk by. The character asserted they were just hired to refute the charges, causing the suspected racist to say, "And people wonder why I don't hire women!"

** In an edition of Weekend Update, [[Tina Fey]] accused Jimmy Fallon of being a "specist" after reporting a story about a man being attacked by two black bears, asking "if it was polar bears would you have said 'two white bears'?" Jimmy responds by revealing that he is married to a black bear, shows the audience the wedding photo, and then asks Tina "Who's the idiot now-- you, or me, the guy who married a black bear?" making this [[Inception|a subversion of an already subversive trope]].

* [[Tosh.0|Daniel Tosh]] does this a lot, by saying something that sounds racist then clarifying it, [[Hypocritical Humor|usually followed by admonishing the audience for laughing when they thought he was being racist]].

* ''[[That '70s Show]]'': When a gay couple moves in next to the Formans, it's not the fact that they're gay that ruins any chance at a friendship with conservative, old-fashioned Red. It's the fact that they're Minnesota Vikings fans, while Red is about as big of a Green Bay Packers fan as you'll ever see.

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', Lucille complains about having been woken by a "colored man." The color in question being ''blue''; her son-in-law was trying out for the Blue Man Group and didn't warn her before coming over.

* Used in a frequently quoted bit from ''[[Seinfeld]]''. Jerry's dentist tells him a mildly offensive Jewish joke, then explains that it's OK, because the dentist just converted to Judaism. Jerry later complains that he thinks the dentist merely converted for the jokes. When someone says, "And that offends you, as a Jew?" Jerry says, "No, it offends me as a comedian!"

** And in the same episode, Jerry tells a joke about dentists and gets accused of being an "anti-dentite". When a Jewish dentist talks about how his people have been persecuted, Jerry asks "The Jews?", to which he responds, "No, dentists!".

* In ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'', Moseby tells his midget older brother that he was given special treatment from his mother. Why? Because he was ''lactose intolerant''! This turns out to be the older brother's [[Berserk Button]].

 

== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==

* [[Christian]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8j8OXn0E44 realizes what makes him different from the other members of Team Kingston.]

 

* Brazilian comedian Danilo Gentili, in a number about a new law in São Paulo that didn't allow the use of cell phones on libraries, imitated a person in the library reporting a violation...by calling from the cell phone.

{{quote|There's someone using a cell phone in here. [Pause] Black. [Pause] No, the cell's black, dude's white.}}

* In a standup routine, [[Dave Chappelle]] was talking about an incident where he was confronted by the KKK. "I mean, I was shocked. It's the 21st century." ([[Beat]]) "Are there people still afraid of ghosts?"

** In another bit he told a story about going to a restaurant.. "I go to a restaurant to order some food, and I said to the guy ''I would like to have''.. and before I could finish my sentence he said ''The Chicken!'' I could not believe it, ([[Beat]]) this man was absolutely right, how did he know I was gonna get some chicken?"

 

== Video Games ==

** So... Isn't that more like "[[Crosses the Line Twice|Discriminate And Discriminate]]"?

** It still fits, because he attacked them for a different reason than Kendl (and the audience) would have assumed.

 

== Web Comics ==

* In ''[[NSFW Comix]]'', Becky thinks Grant, Psymantha and Spatula have been driven to see a psychiatrist because they found out {{spoiler|she has a penis.}} Later on they assure her that {{spoiler|her penis}} wasn't the cause of their distress: It was walking in on her {{spoiler|masturbating to a picture of their [[Gonk]] roommate, Cuthwald.}}

* In the [[Mega Crossover]] [[Fanfic]][[Web Comic|comic]] ''[[Roommates 2007]]'' after Mrs. Norrington and Sarah find [[Ho Yay|Valjean resting an unconscious Javert's head in his lap]], the former comments that the two of them seemed "so... you know... the f-word..." She means "[[Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey|French]]," of course.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* This trope is the basis for the [http://www.uproxx.com/webculture/2011/08/meme-watch-successful-black-man-is-borderline-offensive-but-hilarious/#page/1 successful black man] meme.

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': In the episode where Filbert (a turtle) and Hutch (a cat) get married, Hutch's mom repeatedly lectures her how cats and turtles are natural enemies and can never get along. In the end, it turns out she only thinks so because {{spoiler|she's always angry with Hutch's dad (who's ''a turtle''). But she still loves him}}.

* In one episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', [[Corey Feldman]] and [[Corey Haim]] [[It Makes Sense in Context|travel to Brazil to save the Bush twins]]. They go into a bar and order a cola with two straws. The bartender tells them he doesn't serve their kind. They think he means Americans. [[Double Subversion|He actually means anybody who's been on the cover of teen magazines.]]

 

== Real Life ==

* Inverted in Northern Ireland, where the people on the two ends of the religious and national conflict also support different football teams. Just stating that you support one of those teams will turn half the population hostile in your immediate vicinity.

* One particular news story has someone's quote as the title of the article preview, which said "I won't photograph ugly people." Only when you actually click the link to read the whole article that the person who said the quote means that [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/19/jennifer-mckendrick-penns_n_931324.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl10%7Csec1_lnk1%7C87871 she won't take pictures of bullies for the high school yearbook] since she considers bullies as ugly people.

 

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[[Category:Prejudice Tropes]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Just for Pun]]