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Much more offensive than [[You Are a Credit To Your Race]].

The logical conclusion of [[You Know What They Say About X]]. See also [[Insult Friendly Fire]] for this sans racial components.

The logical conclusion of [[You Know What They Say About X...]]. See also [[Insult Friendly Fire]] for this sans racial components.

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*** On an episode of ''[[The Daily Show (TV)|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.

* The British TV [[Biopic]] ''[~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Hughie_Green~~ Hughie Green]: Most Sincerely'' has a scene, possibly taken from real life, in which Green and his producer are holding an audition for Green's TV talent show. Green is enthusiastic about one candidate, but his producer says, "You know he's black, don't you?" Green rejects this racist attitude out of hand and passes the candidate over his producer's objections.

* The British TV [[Biopic]] ''[[wikipedia:Hughie Green|Hughie Green]]: Most Sincerely'' has a scene, possibly taken from real life, in which Green and his producer are holding an audition for Green's TV talent show. Green is enthusiastic about one candidate, but his producer says, "You know he's black, don't you?" Green rejects this racist attitude out of hand and passes the candidate over his producer's objections.

* In the original UK version of ''[[Queer As Folk]]'', Nathan moans that his best friend wouldn't understand what he's going through because she's straight; she snaps "I'm black. And I'm a girl. Try that for a week."

* Similarly, Jake in ''[[Becker]]'': "I'm a blind black man, we just '''sail''' through life."

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* In ''[[Loserz]]'', when [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/506 Carrie comments to Alice] that her friend Jess coming out of the closet is disturbing, Alice responds with something similar to this trope.

{{quote| '''Carrie:''' Doesn't that freak you out? Isn't that totally gross?<br />

'''Alice:''' [[Let Me Get This Straight]]. You're asking one of the only black girls at this school if she should be repulsed by somebody because she's different? }}

'''Alice:''' [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]. You're asking one of the only black girls at this school if she should be repulsed by somebody because she's different? }}

* In [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp01072004.shtml this] ''[[Something Positive]]'' strip, a white male Pagan ran across a Davan-created webcomic taking a potshot at Wicca and works himself into a righteous anger over the "persecution":

{{quote| '''Pagan''': You'll never know what its like to live with the pain of your ancestors being oppresses for who they were! That they lived in fear because they might get lynched! To know that the suffered so I'd have the right to --<br />

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== Western Animation ==

* On ''[[Drawn Together]]'', this is illustrated frequently between Foxxy Love and the [[Ping Pong Naivete|(occasionally) overly-naive]] and sheltered Princess Clara in the series premiere and subsequent episodes.

* On ''[[Drawn Together]]'', this is illustrated frequently between Foxxy Love and the [[Ping-Pong Naivete|(occasionally) overly-naive]] and sheltered Princess Clara in the series premiere and subsequent episodes.

* Variation from ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'': In one episode where Starfire is the victim of [[Fantastic Racism]], she asks Cyborg if he's ever had to deal with prejudice. Instead of uttering this phrase, he says "Sure I do. I'm part-robot."

** Though the questions makes sense from Starfire since she's an alien and hangs out with the very colorful Teen Titans. It'd make sense that she'd never come across racism.

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== Real Life ==

* CNN news anchor [~~http://en.~~wikipedia~~.org/wiki/Soledad_O%27Brien~~ Soledad O'Brien], who is part black, has talked about sometimes receiving "compliments" along the lines of "I don't think of you as black." To which she has basically responded "Why? Because you don't think of black as equaling achievements, or good journalism, or good things? It's because you think black equals bad things."

* CNN news anchor [[wikipedia:Soledad Ochr(27)Brien|Soledad O'Brien]], who is part black, has talked about sometimes receiving "compliments" along the lines of "I don't think of you as black." To which she has basically responded "Why? Because you don't think of black as equaling achievements, or good journalism, or good things? It's because you think black equals bad things."

** 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.

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