Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Difference between revisions

In either case, death-threats or "[[Would Be Rude to Say Genocide|liberation]]" is optional. Whining about how the open existence of other people in itself infringeinfringes on one's freedom is enough. Note that it however does ''not'' count to claim that the other group may pose an actual threat in the future.

'''[[No Real Life Examples, Please{{noreallife|We all know that some people think this way in Real Life. [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Let's just leave it at that]]'''.}}

* In ''[[Chick Tracts]]'', the [[Straw Loser|non-Christians]] do this quite often. They feel insulted, threatened, even oppressed... not by how the Christians treat them, but by their very existence. Of course, the Christian characters are always loving &and righteous [[Soulsaving Crusader]]s, never this trope. They never have any negative feelings towards Gays, Catholics or whatever... It's just that they find it unfortunate that they all deserve to get tortured and raped forever in hell and will get this well-deserved punishment soon enough.

** In ''[[Bitchy Butch]]'', we also have Butchy herself, with these feelings against men and heterosexuals.

* ''[[I Shot [[Andy Warhol]]'' is about Valerie Solanas, who apparently came to believe this about all men and consequently published the infamous S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto.

* In the neo-naziNazi novel ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'', the aryanAryan race is finally "liberated" as the protagonists let atomic, biological and chemical bombs rain over the entire planet, exterminating over 90% of mankind. [[Author Tract|This is portrayed as a happy ending]].

* In ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards Guards]]'', most of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night feel like this in their low-grade, resentful way. Notably, this is played for ''laughs''.

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' has a personal, rather than a racial, example during [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|Snape's hatred of Harry's father was totally justified.}} When asked "what has he ever done to you?", {{spoiler|James Potter's}} response was "it's more the fact that he ''exists''".

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* This is how most of the Imperium in ''[[Warhammer 40,000|Imperium]]'' feels about aliens, mutants and heretics. Granted in their case it's somewhat justified, considering nearly all the aliens are just as genocidal as they are (and the ones who aren't are being manipulated by a caste of mysterious alien sages for who knows what purpose) and mutants are all vessels, willingly or not, for the power of the Dark Gods.

* In onethe drunkenSwedish rant,play ''[[Arne Anka - en afton på Zekes]]'' claim(based on the ''[[Arne Anka]]'' comics), the titular Arne claims in one drunken rant to be a victim oppressed by the existence of beautiful women.

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'', the Thalmor believe that not just the existence of mankind, but the existence of the ''possibility'' of mankind, keeps the elves trapped in the normal world.

* In ''[[Star Control]] II]]'', this is the motivation behind the Ur-Quan Kohr-Ah's extermination campaigns. Much like the Daleks, they consider all non-Ur-Quan life to be abhorrent. They also think they're doing the universe a favor, since they believe in reincarnation and without any other species to be born into, every soul will eventually become an Ur-Quan.

* Just about every devout Khersian thinks this way about Mack in ''[[Tales of MU]]''. Considering she's half-demon and Khersis exists to purge the world of demons, and demons feed on humans, there is some justification. But since she's the protagonist, we are sympathetic to her situation. It doesn't help that the characters who most dehumanize demons in the setting are either [[Jerkass]]es like Gloria and Ariadne or the [[Complete Monster]] Mercy.