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-->"Damon, you can't be a Republican!"
-->"Why not?"
-->"Because only Democrats fight racial stereotyping!"
-->"Well... why me?"
-->"Why?! Because you're '''black'''!!"
-->''[[http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2002/11/04/ Day By Day]]''
Sometimes, it's not just enough to have your character opposed by [[StrawmanPolitical the evil opposition]] and the [[StrawLoser complete morons]] to make them seem right. When you really want to make the opposition look bad -- racist, sexist, whateverist, stupid and two-dimensional all at once -- that's when you have them throw around accusations of Straw Treason.
A Straw Treason accusation is when the author has someone (almost always a StrawmanPolitical) automatically assume that the StrawTraitor will hold the same views as them because of their race, gender, background, or whatever, and then accuse them of treason when they do not; of course, the StrawTraitor holds whatever views the author projects into them, making the StrawmanPolitical who accuses them look both foolish and biased.
Occasionally the author of a work will create a StrawTraitor [[AuthorTract from the third person]] and expect the viewer to seriously view them as a traitor to the cause, but more frequently it is the accusation of treason itself that is the strawman.
Usually the StrawTraitor is an [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Target]]. This has the further benefit of making it difficult to attack the StrawTraitor without appearing to be, well, insensitive. Anyone who tries will often end up invoking mean-spirited racial stereotypes and further lose audience sympathy.
Some authors can use this effect to make arguments and attacks against [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Targets]] that they would feel squeamish making directly themselves; for instance, if it would look bad for the author to criticize 'foolanders' directly, the author might [[NWordPrivileges create a straw-foolander and put all the attacks in their mouth]]. It can also be used to lend a false weight to those arguments -- if a ''foolander'' says it, or if even a foolander supports such-and-such-a-law that has been accused of being anti-foolander, well, then, it has to be all right!
Unlike the other tropes in TheWarOnStraw, the 'straw' in StrawTraitor refers to the larger rhetorical device and not a specific type of character; it is usually the person making the accusation of "treason" that is being set up as a strawman (though, as noted, {{Straw Traitor}}s themselves are sometimes used to deliver potentially racially, ethnically, culturally, or otherwise-charged {{Author Filibuster}}s from a 'safe' position.)
Compare and contrast the StrawHypocrite, who ''seems'' like he isn't a traitor, but is the genuine article.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Huckleberry Finn's father (an uneducated, coarse slob) berated his son for taking up reading and doing quite well, because all their family were illiterate prior to that moment and Huckleberry "betrayed" them by trying to be better than them.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The ''[[ThirdRockFromTheSun 3rd Rock From The Sun]]'' episode "Dick the Vote" included this subversion:
-->'''Mary''': Hecky Mulligan! How can you vote for Hecky Mulligan? Nina, can you believe that?\\
'''Nina''': How do you know I'm not voting for Mulligan?\\
'''Mary''': I thought you were a Democrat.\\
'''Nina''': And why do you think I'm a Democrat, because I'm black?\\
'''Mary''': Go ahead, vote for Mulligan!\\
'''Nina''': I'm not voting for Mulligan!
* Seen in {{Coupling}} where Sally accuses a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives.
* Used to great effect in an early episode of TheWestWing, where Josh is arguing with a Republican congressman, Matt Skinner, over provisions in a proposed anti-gay marriage law. He is baffled by the congressman's refusal to vote against it, even though Skinner himself is gay. When Josh finally breaks down and asks why he doesn't vote against the bill, and why he's even a member of the party when the Republicans always have an anti-gay message, Skinner replies that yes, he is gay. But he is also for lower taxes, less government, and most other Republican positions, and he simply chooses not to let his sexuality, rather than his principles, decide how he should vote.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* Surprisingly averted in ''TheBoondocks''. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* Both in fiction and reality, middle-class black people are often accused of "selling out their race" or words to that effect, the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] being that blacks should stay poor and uneducated. This is related to the No True Scotsman Fallacy, described on the article YouFailLogicForever.
** TheOtherWiki describes this as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality "Crab mentality"]].
* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only autistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
* Heaven help you if you're a GayConservative.
* Or an atheist Republican.
* Black and Hispanic conservatives get accused of being "Uncle Toms" all the time.
[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
* The ''DayByDay'' cartoon outlined at the top of the page.
** It gets worse. It is later revealed that Damon is an orphan, causing Jan, the [[StrawmanPolitical Straw Liberal]] to declare that this explains why he's a Republican as he doesn't know ''how a black person'' is supposed to act. Did I mention they're now a [[OppositesAttract couple]]?
* The now defunct online comic ''QueerNation'' featured the examples of a black gay man who spoke at a Republican benefit and, during it, received superpowers; the "Lambda Rays" put him in blackface, a hobo suit, and apparently gave him the moniker "Uncle Tom". He immediately began dancing for the white crowd in front of him. One of the few AuthorTract examples of this trope in action.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* Happens a WhateleyUniverse story, and the person attacking the StrawTraitor gets ''blasted'' by the grandmother of the StrawTraitor for perpetuating negative stereotypes.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''SouthPark'', at the end of "Cripple Fight", Big Gay Al gives an inspiring speech about how he doesn't believe the government has the right to force the Scouts to accept homosexuals. A bewildered Gloria Allred quickly attacks Big Gay Al as being a homophobe.
* On ''AquaTeenHungerForce'', Master Shake is surprised to learn that Frylock is not amused by a JiveTurkey talking cellphone, despite the fact that Frylock is black. Or at least, he sounds black.
* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it and then broke up with her when, in an unrelated twist having nothing to do with her Down Syndrome, she turned out to be controlling, mean, and borderline abusive person. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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-->"Damon, you can't be a Republican!"
-->"Why not?"
-->"Because only Democrats fight racial stereotyping!"
-->"Well... why me?"
-->"Why?! Because you're '''black'''!!"
-->''[[http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2002/11/04/ Day By Day]]''
Sometimes, it's not just enough to have your character opposed by [[StrawmanPolitical the evil opposition]] and the [[StrawLoser complete morons]] to make them seem right. When you really want to make the opposition look bad -- racist, sexist, whateverist, stupid and two-dimensional all at once -- that's when you have them throw around accusations of Straw Treason.
A Straw Treason accusation is when the author has someone (almost always a StrawmanPolitical) automatically assume that the StrawTraitor will hold the same views as them because of their race, gender, background, or whatever, and then accuse them of treason when they do not; of course, the StrawTraitor holds whatever views the author projects into them, making the StrawmanPolitical who accuses them look both foolish and biased.
Occasionally the author of a work will create a StrawTraitor [[AuthorTract from the third person]] and expect the viewer to seriously view them as a traitor to the cause, but more frequently it is the accusation of treason itself that is the strawman.
Usually the StrawTraitor is an [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Target]]. This has the further benefit of making it difficult to attack the StrawTraitor without appearing to be, well, insensitive. Anyone who tries will often end up invoking mean-spirited racial stereotypes and further lose audience sympathy.
Some authors can use this effect to make arguments and attacks against [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Targets]] that they would feel squeamish making directly themselves; for instance, if it would look bad for the author to criticize 'foolanders' directly, the author might [[NWordPrivileges create a straw-foolander and put all the attacks in their mouth]]. It can also be used to lend a false weight to those arguments -- if a ''foolander'' says it, or if even a foolander supports such-and-such-a-law that has been accused of being anti-foolander, well, then, it has to be all right!
Unlike the other tropes in TheWarOnStraw, the 'straw' in StrawTraitor refers to the larger rhetorical device and not a specific type of character; it is usually the person making the accusation of "treason" that is being set up as a strawman (though, as noted, {{Straw Traitor}}s themselves are sometimes used to deliver potentially racially, ethnically, culturally, or otherwise-charged {{Author Filibuster}}s from a 'safe' position.)
Compare and contrast the StrawHypocrite, who ''seems'' like he isn't a traitor, but is the genuine article.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Huckleberry Finn's father (an uneducated, coarse slob) berated his son for taking up reading and doing quite well, because all their family were illiterate prior to that moment and Huckleberry "betrayed" them by trying to be better than them.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The ''[[ThirdRockFromTheSun 3rd Rock From The Sun]]'' episode "Dick the Vote" included this subversion:
-->'''Mary''': Hecky Mulligan! How can you vote for Hecky Mulligan? Nina, can you believe that?\\
'''Nina''': How do you know I'm not voting for Mulligan?\\
'''Mary''': I thought you were a Democrat.\\
'''Nina''': And why do you think I'm a Democrat, because I'm black?\\
'''Mary''': Go ahead, vote for Mulligan!\\
'''Nina''': I'm not voting for Mulligan!
* Seen in {{Coupling}} where Sally accuses a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives.
* Used to great effect in an early episode of TheWestWing, where Josh is arguing with a Republican congressman, Matt Skinner, over provisions in a proposed anti-gay marriage law. He is baffled by the congressman's refusal to vote against it, even though Skinner himself is gay. When Josh finally breaks down and asks why he doesn't vote against the bill, and why he's even a member of the party when the Republicans always have an anti-gay message, Skinner replies that yes, he is gay. But he is also for lower taxes, less government, and most other Republican positions, and he simply chooses not to let his sexuality, rather than his principles, decide how he should vote.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* Surprisingly averted in ''TheBoondocks''. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* Both in fiction and reality, middle-class black people are often accused of "selling out their race" or words to that effect, the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] being that blacks should stay poor and uneducated. This is related to the No True Scotsman Fallacy, described on the article YouFailLogicForever.
** TheOtherWiki describes this as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality "Crab mentality"]].
* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only autistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
* Heaven help you if you're a GayConservative.
* Or an atheist Republican.
* Black and Hispanic conservatives get accused of being "Uncle Toms" all the time.
[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
* The ''DayByDay'' cartoon outlined at the top of the page.
** It gets worse. It is later revealed that Damon is an orphan, causing Jan, the [[StrawmanPolitical Straw Liberal]] to declare that this explains why he's a Republican as he doesn't know ''how a black person'' is supposed to act. Did I mention they're now a [[OppositesAttract couple]]?
* The now defunct online comic ''QueerNation'' featured the examples of a black gay man who spoke at a Republican benefit and, during it, received superpowers; the "Lambda Rays" put him in blackface, a hobo suit, and apparently gave him the moniker "Uncle Tom". He immediately began dancing for the white crowd in front of him. One of the few AuthorTract examples of this trope in action.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* Happens a WhateleyUniverse story, and the person attacking the StrawTraitor gets ''blasted'' by the grandmother of the StrawTraitor for perpetuating negative stereotypes.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''SouthPark'', at the end of "Cripple Fight", Big Gay Al gives an inspiring speech about how he doesn't believe the government has the right to force the Scouts to accept homosexuals. A bewildered Gloria Allred quickly attacks Big Gay Al as being a homophobe.
* On ''AquaTeenHungerForce'', Master Shake is surprised to learn that Frylock is not amused by a JiveTurkey talking cellphone, despite the fact that Frylock is black. Or at least, he sounds black.
* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it and then broke up with her when, in an unrelated twist having nothing to do with her Down Syndrome, she turned out to be controlling, mean, and borderline abusive person. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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-->"Damon, you can't be a Republican!"
-->"Why not?"
-->"Because only Democrats fight racial stereotyping!"
-->"Well... why me?"
-->"Why?! Because you're '''black'''!!"
-->''[[http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2002/11/04/ Day By Day]]''
Sometimes, it's not just enough to have your character opposed by [[StrawmanPolitical the evil opposition]] and the [[StrawLoser complete morons]] to make them seem right. When you really want to make the opposition look bad -- racist, sexist, whateverist, stupid and two-dimensional all at once -- that's when you have them throw around accusations of Straw Treason.
A Straw Treason accusation is when the author has someone (almost always a StrawmanPolitical) automatically assume that the StrawTraitor will hold the same views as them because of their race, gender, background, or whatever, and then accuse them of treason when they do not; of course, the StrawTraitor holds whatever views the author projects into them, making the StrawmanPolitical who accuses them look both foolish and biased.
Occasionally the author of a work will create a StrawTraitor [[AuthorTract from the third person]] and expect the viewer to seriously view them as a traitor to the cause, but more frequently it is the accusation of treason itself that is the strawman.
Usually the StrawTraitor is an [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Target]]. This has the further benefit of making it difficult to attack the StrawTraitor without appearing to be, well, insensitive. Anyone who tries will often end up invoking mean-spirited racial stereotypes and further lose audience sympathy.
Some authors can use this effect to make arguments and attacks against [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Targets]] that they would feel squeamish making directly themselves; for instance, if it would look bad for the author to criticize 'foolanders' directly, the author might [[NWordPrivileges create a straw-foolander and put all the attacks in their mouth]]. It can also be used to lend a false weight to those arguments -- if a ''foolander'' says it, or if even a foolander supports such-and-such-a-law that has been accused of being anti-foolander, well, then, it has to be all right!
Unlike the other tropes in TheWarOnStraw, the 'straw' in StrawTraitor refers to the larger rhetorical device and not a specific type of character; it is usually the person making the accusation of "treason" that is being set up as a strawman (though, as noted, {{Straw Traitor}}s themselves are sometimes used to deliver potentially racially, ethnically, culturally, or otherwise-charged {{Author Filibuster}}s from a 'safe' position.)
Compare and contrast the StrawHypocrite, who ''seems'' like he isn't a traitor, but is the genuine article.
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!!Examples:
[[AC:AnimeAndManga]]
* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
[[AC:{{Literature}}]]
* Huckleberry Finn's father (an uneducated, coarse slob) berated his son for taking up reading and doing quite well, because all their family were illiterate prior to that moment and Huckleberry "betrayed" them by trying to be better than them.
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The ''[[ThirdRockFromTheSun 3rd Rock From The Sun]]'' episode "Dick the Vote" included this subversion:
-->'''Mary''': Hecky Mulligan! How can you vote for Hecky Mulligan? Nina, can you believe that?\\
'''Nina''': How do you know I'm not voting for Mulligan?\\
'''Mary''': I thought you were a Democrat.\\
'''Nina''': And why do you think I'm a Democrat, because I'm black?\\
'''Mary''': Go ahead, vote for Mulligan!\\
'''Nina''': I'm not voting for Mulligan!
* Seen in {{Coupling}} where Sally accuses a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives.
* Used to great effect in an early episode of TheWestWing, where Josh is arguing with a Republican congressman, Matt Skinner, over provisions in a proposed anti-gay marriage law. He is baffled by the congressman's refusal to vote against it, even though Skinner himself is gay. When Josh finally breaks down and asks why he doesn't vote against the bill, and why he's even a member of the party when the Republicans always have an anti-gay message, Skinner replies that yes, he is gay. But he is also for lower taxes, less government, and most other Republican positions, and he simply chooses not to let his sexuality, rather than his principles, decide how he should vote.
[[AC:NewspaperComics]]
* Surprisingly averted in ''TheBoondocks''. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* Both in fiction and reality, middle-class black people are often accused of "selling out their race" or words to that effect, the [[UnfortunateImplications Unfortunate Implication]] being that blacks should stay poor and uneducated. This is related to the No True Scotsman Fallacy, described on the article YouFailLogicForever.
** TheOtherWiki describes this as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality "Crab mentality"]].
* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only autistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
* Heaven help you if you're a GayConservative.
* Or an atheist Republican.
* Black and Hispanic conservatives get accused of being "Uncle Toms" all the time.
[[AC:{{Webcomics}}]]
* The ''DayByDay'' cartoon outlined at the top of the page.
** It gets worse. It is later revealed that Damon is an orphan, causing Jan, the [[StrawmanPolitical Straw Liberal]] to declare that this explains why he's a Republican as he doesn't know ''how a black person'' is supposed to act. Did I mention they're now a [[OppositesAttract couple]]?
* The now defunct online comic ''QueerNation'' featured the examples of a black gay man who spoke at a Republican benefit and, during it, received superpowers; the "Lambda Rays" put him in blackface, a hobo suit, and apparently gave him the moniker "Uncle Tom". He immediately began dancing for the white crowd in front of him. One of the few AuthorTract examples of this trope in action.
[[AC:WebOriginal]]
* Happens a WhateleyUniverse story, and the person attacking the StrawTraitor gets ''blasted'' by the grandmother of the StrawTraitor for perpetuating negative stereotypes.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* In ''SouthPark'', at the end of "Cripple Fight", Big Gay Al gives an inspiring speech about how he doesn't believe the government has the right to force the Scouts to accept homosexuals. A bewildered Gloria Allred quickly attacks Big Gay Al as being a homophobe.
* On ''AquaTeenHungerForce'', Master Shake is surprised to learn that Frylock is not amused by a JiveTurkey talking cellphone, despite the fact that Frylock is black. Or at least, he sounds black.
* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it and then broke up with her when, in an unrelated twist having nothing to do with her Down Syndrome, she turned out to be controlling, mean, and borderline abusive person. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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* Seen in {{Coupling}} where Sally accuses a gay man of being a traitor because he supports the Conservatives.
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Conservatives.
* Used to great effect in an early episode of TheWestWing, where Josh is arguing with a Republican congressman, Matt Skinner, over provisions in a proposed anti-gay marriage law. He is baffled by the congressman's refusal to vote against it, even though Skinner himself is gay. When Josh finally breaks down and asks why he doesn't vote against the bill, and why he's even a member of the party when the Republicans always have an anti-gay message, Skinner replies that yes, he is gay. But he is also for lower taxes, less government, and most other Republican positions, and he simply chooses not to let his sexuality, rather than his principles, decide how he should vote.
* Used to great effect in an early episode of TheWestWing, where Josh is arguing with a Republican congressman, Matt Skinner, over provisions in a proposed anti-gay marriage law. He is baffled by the congressman's refusal to vote against it, even though Skinner himself is gay. When Josh finally breaks down and asks why he doesn't vote against the bill, and why he's even a member of the party when the Republicans always have an anti-gay message, Skinner replies that yes, he is gay. But he is also for lower taxes, less government, and most other Republican positions, and he simply chooses not to let his sexuality, rather than his principles, decide how he should vote.
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* Bernard Goldberg, that perennial neoconservative guest on ''TheOReillyFactor'', wrote a book called ''Crazies to the Left of Me; Wimps to the Right'' in which he relates his life story of being an ex-liberal who eventually [[IGotBetter got better]]. In one nauseating chapter, he all but declares that if you're a member of the U.S. Democratic Party and are not female, "of color," or a homosexual, you must be some kind of hippie-ish wimp.
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* Bernard Goldberg, that perennial neoconservative guest on ''TheOReillyFactor'', wrote a book called ''Crazies to the Left of Me; Wimps to the Right'' in which he relates his life story of being an ex-liberal who eventually [[IGotBetter got better]]. In one nauseating chapter, he all but declares that if you're a member of the U.S. Democratic Party and are not female, "of color," or a homosexual, you must be some kind of hippie-ish wimp.
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Some authors can use this effect to make arguments and attacks against [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Targets]] that they would feel squeamish making directly themselves; for instance, if it would look bad for the author to criticize 'foolanders' directly, the author might create a straw-foolander and put all the attacks in their mouth. It can also be used to lend a false weight to those arguments -- if a ''foolander'' says it, or if even a foolander supports such-and-such-a-law that has been accused of being anti-foolander, well, then, it has to be all right!
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Some authors can use this effect to make arguments and attacks against [[OnceAcceptableTargets Unacceptable Targets]] that they would feel squeamish making directly themselves; for instance, if it would look bad for the author to criticize 'foolanders' directly, the author might [[NWordPrivileges create a straw-foolander and put all the attacks in their mouth.mouth]]. It can also be used to lend a false weight to those arguments -- if a ''foolander'' says it, or if even a foolander supports such-and-such-a-law that has been accused of being anti-foolander, well, then, it has to be all right!
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In my experience, Jews tend to be liberal more often then they\'re conservative. Only really religious Jews tend to consistantly vote conservative, and that\'s for most of the same reasons religious Christians are conservative.
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* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it.it and then broke up with her when, in an unrelated twist having nothing to do with her Down Syndrome, she turned out to be controlling, mean, and borderline abusive person. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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* Surprisingly averted in ''TheBoondocks''. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasion-hood, is never rejected by his friends however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white woman however he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white woman however he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
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* Surprisingly averted in ''TheBoondocks''. While StrawmanPolitical characters abound, particularly black ones, never at any point do any of the characters seriously suggest that the others are race traitors. Even Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man who constantly expounds upon the joys of Caucasion-hood, Caucasian-hood, is never rejected by his friends however misguided and extreme his actions become.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a whitewoman however woman. However, he's accused of this by the white defense attorney.
** Subverted in the Trial of R. Kelly where Tom is accused of being a self hating black man because he's married to a white
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only austistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only austistic autistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angerly insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only austistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); because of this, he angerly angrily insists that the two aren't related, and that this "fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only austistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
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* Black and Hispanic conservatives get accused of being "Uncle Toms" all the time.
** As do Jewish liberals.
** As do Jewish liberals.
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); it's not entirely clear whether he thinks Asperger's (an autism spectrum disorder) is different from autism or if he thinks that their current [[TallPoppySyndrome high media visibility]] is some kind of class treason, but there's definite shades of this trope nonetheless.
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* [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); it's not entirely clear whether because of this, he thinks Asperger's (an autism spectrum disorder) is different from autism or if he thinks angerly insists that their current [[TallPoppySyndrome high media visibility]] is some kind of class treason, but there's definite shades of the two aren't related, and that this trope nonetheless."fact" is his idea. To make things worse, he tends to act like he's the only austistic who's special, describing other autistics as "zombies" or "windows into hell".
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Alphabetizing the categories.
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* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
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* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
** The joke is based on stereotypes of Japanese and American bust sizes. All of the girls are Japanese, but a few are (if you don't look above the neck) "stereotypically American".
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* Heaven help you if you're a GayConservative.
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* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[Pettanko same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
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* In {{Azumanga Daioh}}, Yomi informs Tomo and Osaka (teenaged schoolgirls) that they are in the [[Pettanko [[FlatChestedGirl same bust size category]] as the 10 year old genius Chiyo, but that Chiyo probably won't stay in that group for long. Tomo and Osaka call Chiyo out as a traitor.
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* A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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* [[SarahPalin A famous mother of a child with Down Syndrome Syndrome]] attacked ''FamilyGuy'' for an episode in which Chris dated someone with it. The actress herself has Down Syndrome, and said "In my family we think laughing is good. My parents raised me to have a sense of humor and to live a normal life."
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* [[{{Sonichu Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); it's not entirely clear whether he thinks Asperger's (an autism spectrum disorder) is different from autism or if he thinks that their current [[TallPoppySyndrome high media visibility]] is some kind of class treason, but there's definite shades of this trope nonetheless.
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* [[{{Sonichu [[{{Sonichu}} Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); it's not entirely clear whether he thinks Asperger's (an autism spectrum disorder) is different from autism or if he thinks that their current [[TallPoppySyndrome high media visibility]] is some kind of class treason, but there's definite shades of this trope nonetheless.
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* [[{{Sonichu Chris-chan]] is known to rant about how people with Asperger's are "stealing the glory" of autistics ([[ItMakesSenseInContext to cut a long story short, he uses his autism to excuse his bad behavior, which is convenient since there's so much to excuse]]); it's not entirely clear whether he thinks Asperger's (an autism spectrum disorder) is different from autism or if he thinks that their current [[TallPoppySyndrome high media visibility]] is some kind of class treason, but there's definite shades of this trope nonetheless.
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** The US Supreme Court said that since the Boy Scouts are a private group, they can refuse homosexuals. Most lawsuits now attempt to remove the special consideration that the Scouts get from governments, which are not allowed to discriminate in most places. The Scouts still get special bonuses from governments, including the US Congress giving them free use of Federal lands and other stuff that other people don't get.
