Boomerang Bigot: Difference between revisions

* 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 Boomerang Bigot instead of the straightforward variety they accused him of being.

* ''[[Discworld]]''

{{quote|'''Detritus:''' You can't trust 'em.

'''Skully:''' Who?

** Similarly Reg Shoe is initially invited to join the Watch after sending in letters complaining about police treatment of the Undead community. Vimes later notices that since Reg Shoe became a watchman the number of complaints from the Undead has doubled and they are all directed against Reg Shoe.

** 71-Hour Ahmed doesn't trust any Klatchians, ''because'' he is one. He actually has to point out to Vimes, who's engaging in some pretty heavy [[Positive Discrimination]] (to counteract the regular-old discrimination that he thinks will get everyone killed by underestimation), that Klatchians can be scheming bastards too.

** The Hydrophobes are deliberately raised to hate all liquids, including their own body fluids. This aversion becomes so powerful it forms a repulsion field around the hydrophobe, practical for magic transports on water.

* In the ''[[Realm of the Elderlings|Farseer]]'' trilogy by [[Robin Hobb]], Burrich tries to repress signs of the Wit in Fitz because he himself is trying to hide that he has the Wit.

* In the [[Strugatsky Brothers]] novel ''[[Prisoners of Power]]'' it turns out that the political junta which ordered the persecution of the "deviants" is composed entirely of deviants itself. They don't do it out of bigotry though - {{spoiler|deviants are the only members of the populace who are immune to the [[Mind Control]] which the junta uses to stay in power.}}

 

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