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* Somewhat subverted in [[DC Comics]]' ''Steel'': Natasha Irons says to her white friend, "Boris, in case you haven't noticed, I'm black", before realising that he's just [[The Ditz|such a ditz]] it honestly hasn't occurred to him there's an unfortunate association in giving her a watermelon as a gift.
** For those who are not Americans: This joke refers to the old American trope that the best way to portray a lazy Black slave or even freeman was to show a scrawny old slave, lounging on a porch, eating a watermelon. The "blacks love watermelon and fried chicken" idea is a well-worn staple of stereotypical humor.
* In ''New [[X-Men]]'', Rockslide taunts Anole, who's gay, by calling him a "big sissy". Anole immediately opens up a can of whoopass on him, which is kind of impressive considering Rockslide is twice his size and made out of lava, and Anole isn't exactly the biggest badass on the team. As it happens, Rockslide didn't know and was just being his usual insensitive self, but Anole's not interested in excuses.
* ''[[Astro City]]'' has a humorously overblown example. A boisterous comic book publisher releases a comic [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] in which the supervillain Glowworm is ascribed a white supremacist motivation that was not substantiated by the actual events. Glowworm, a monstrous glowing green man with a tail in place of legs, attacks the publisher at a comic convention:
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'''Willow:''' Thanks for the validation. }}
* A funny moment in ''[[Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip|Studio 60]]'', when the black junior writer asks his co-writer whether calling senior writers 'sir' is a 'white thing?' gets the response; 'I'm not white, I'm British.'
** This is [[Truth in Television]], in that many Americans don't realize that racism works different outside of the US. In America, racists tend to just go by how a person looks, where as in most of the rest of the planet, the racists actually try to figure out something about your background to hate.
*** On an episode of ''[[The Daily Show]]'', Brit John Oliver explains that Americans don't know bigotry, Brits know REAL Bigotry. "We're prejudiced against other, white Europeans. Michael Caine passed me in the hallway, heard my accent, headbutted me in the nose, and threw his laundry at me, and I have to do it, according to the rules of England! There is a little old lady in [some small British town], who feels hollandaise sauce is "Too Ethnic". She won't let her daughter date a Normans, because she hasn't forgiven William the Conqueror for the invasion of 1066 yet!"
*** Many nations could care less about race, and in fact may be so mixed that you couldn't even ''name'' a race, other than the melting pot that is "Jamaican" or "Cuban". But ''social class'' is an entirely different story. And then there's prejudice between different skin tones or hair colors ''within the same race''. Firecrotch. Quadroon.
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'''Kim''': Do you need some time to comprehend why saying that to me makes you stupid?
'''Pagan''': ...No, I think I've got that figured out. }}
** [[Inverted]] in another: Aubrey is reprimanding one of her employees, who accuses her of being prejudiced against white people. Aubrey points out that she's half-white (the other half is Asian).
* In ''[[RPG World]]'', Soldier #347 makes elf jokes to Plum. Due to his poor vision, he doesn't realize Plum is an elf.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater
{{quote|'''Black Mage:''' Let me stop you right there before I am honor-bound to cut you like an elven whore.
'''Thief:''' Hold on. ''Elven whore?'' Do I even have to explain why that's offensive to me?
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{{quote|'''Jenny:''' You think you're better than them!
'''Tuck:''' DUH! They're just stupid robots! (Cue Tuck's POV of [[Bullying a Dragon|the 6-and-a-half foot, 600 pound]] [[Swiss Army Gun|walking weapons platform]] giving him the [[Death Glare]]) }}
* On ''[[King of the Hill]],'' Kahn had a chance to join a ritzy all-Asian country club, but only if he helped get Hank to join as their [[Token White]]. When Kahn expresses outrage at Hank's refusal, Hank exasperatedly comments that Kahn "wouldn't understand" his reasoning. Kahn responds that ''no,'' of course he wouldn't understand what it's like to be a [[Token Minority|token]] member of a group.
{{quote|'''Kahn:''' Oh yes, I wouldn't understand. My original last name is Smith! [[Sarcasm Mode|I just changed it to Souphanousinphone when I moved to Texas!]]}}
== Real Life ==
* CNN news anchor [[wikipedia:Soledad
** Although really, they probably simply don't think of her as black because she doesn't look black. Same reason people don't think of Barack Obama as white, or think of Jason Kidd as black, or think of Tiger Woods as asian.
** Relatedly, a lot of fat folk can only look in confusion at friends who say "Oh, don't worry, I don't think of ''you'' as fat." when what they actually mean is that they don't think you're ''ugly'' or ''lazy'' or any of the other associations [[Fat Bastard|Those Horrible Fat People]] have in their mind.
* [[Will Smith]], in telling the story of being cast as Jim West in ''[[Wild Wild West]]'' (who was white in the TV show), said that he mentioned to the producers that people might think it's a bit odd that they've cast him, to which they apparently replied "Oh, nobody knows you're black!"
** There's another version of this story Smith has told, where he asked the producers something like, "Don't you think I look a bit different from the original actor?" and their reply was something to the effect of, "Yes, you're shorter, but no one will notice."
* This ALWAYS happens to gay people, at least once, because unless you're [[Camp Gay|terribly flaming]] or have a couple, there's no way to differentiate homosexuals from other people.
** And no matter WHAT you do, it's impossible to tell if someone's bi. Given the amount of discrimination bisexuals face, this leads to a lot of [[Bi the Way]] moments.
* Similarly, this often happens to people with different neurotypes like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, etc, since it's impossible to tell just by looking.
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