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* [[Everything Is Racist]]: Both Malik and Remy come to view the world through this lens.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: For such a ne'er-do-well, Fudge sure is enamored with black literature.

** [[Saving Private Ryan|Stanley Mellish]] is Remy's roommate.

** [[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Film)|Leatherface]] plays one of the Nazis.

* [[Something Completely Different]]: In this film, we are presented with something not seen in a mainstream American film since ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' 80 years earlier: white-supremacist characters who are actually relatable and semi-sympathetic (though without the blatant hero-worship of D. W. Griffith's film, of course). We get a definite sense of what prompted {{spoiler|Remy's}} [[Face Heel Turn]] and why he would think himself [[Knight Templar|justified in his attitudes and actions]]. (It could even be argued that this film helped to set the stage for ''[[American History X]]'' three years later, in which the skinhead is actually ''redeemed''.)

* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: When Remy is introduced he is seen hanging up posters of heavy metal bands like Danzig, while political, multi-racial Rage Against the Machine plays in the background. Later after his {{spoiler|[[Face Heel Turn]] he's still seen playing their music, despite that half of the band is non-white.}}

* [[Straw Feminist]]: Averted with Taryn, and with Kristen as well (except in the [[Innocent Bigot]] example above). Some of their followers, however, ''do'' fit the mold - including one who apparently wants to [[He Who Fights Monsters|see rapists lynched]].

* [[Strawman U]]: Columbus actually doesn't start out as this (being a fairly typical California college campus, even with some ''[[Animal House]]''-type mischief), but becomes increasingly so as tensions escalate.

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