History PersecutionFlip / Literature

** In ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'', TheMorlocks are descended from the working classes and treat the {{formerly sapient|Species}} descendants of the upper classes as [[PeopleFarms livestock]].

** ''Through Darkest Europe'' is set in a universe where the Muslim nations of Africa and the Middle East are the liberal centers of modern civilization, while Europe is full of small backwater countries dominated by corruption, tribalism, and Christian fundamentalism.

** ''Through Darkest Europe'' is set in a universe where the Muslim nations of Africa and the Middle East are the center of modern civilization, being champions of liberal and free politics. Europe, by contrast, is full of backwater countries ruled by corrupt governments, tribalism, and Christian fundamentalism.

** Gulliver visits the countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag, in succession, and is regarded as a freak of nature in both: In Lilliput because he is a giant among dwarfs, and in Brobdingnag because he is a dwarf among giants. The court jester of Brobdingnag, a dwarf reputed to be the shortest man in the kingdom until Gulliver arrived, is delighted to have finally someone to bully because he is smaller than him.

** Less evident case in Gulliver visiting the countries of Lilliput and Brobdingnag [[BlackLikeMe in succession]]. In the first case he is a giant among dwarfs; in the second, a dwarf among giants.

* ''Literature/WheelOfTime'': Societies throughout Randland are largely matriarchal, with many positions of political power and authority confined to women. However, this is taken to the extreme in Altara, in which men are explicitly second-class citizens, and wives are legally allowed to murder their husbands. In fact, married women all wear ceremonial knives that they are supposed to use to "discipline" their husbands.

* ''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'': The novel itself isn't really a conventional Persecution Flip, as white people aren't swapped with a minority, they're all but extinguished by TheBlackDeath, so the novel has almost no white characters. But there are a few examples here and there. The few surviving whites are a curiosity, and it's mentioned a couple of times that white sex slaves are an exotic commodity.

* ''Literature/TheYearsOfRiceAndSalt'': The novel itself isn't really a conventional Persecution Flip, as white people aren't swapped with a minority, they're all but extinguished by TheBlackDeath, so the novel has almost no white characters. But there are a few examples here and there. The few surviving whites are a curiosity, and it's mentioned a couple of times that white sex slaves are an exotic comodity.

** In both his epic fantasy-retellings of the American Civil War and World War II, the slaves and the subhumans due for extermination are the white, Aryan-looking blondes.

*** Further referenced in universe, when Scipio (a Black Confederate) takes delight in reading a book about [[PhenotypeStereotype the "dark skinned" Moors conquering the "blonde" Visigoths]].

** In ''Literature/RuledBritannia'', the English Protestants must go underground after the Spanish invade and hand power over to the Catholics. UsefulNotes/ElizabethI is imprisoned in the Tower of London and the occupying forces include many Irish. The book is clear that, foreign presence aside, the situation is nothing new for England: Protestants were top dog with UsefulNotes/HenryVIII, then Catholics with UsefulNotes/MaryTudor, then Protestants again with Elizabeth.

*** In the same series, the rump United States joins the Central Powers during UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne and defeats Canada and Great Britain. This results in Quebec and Ireland (the whole island) becoming independent, CP-aligned republics, with Anglo-Canadians and Ulster Protestants becoming second-class, rebellion-prone citizens.

* ''Literature/ChristianNation'' flips the table on religious persecution, as Evangelical Christians in America persecute intellectuals, homosexuals, and non-believers while they turn the country into a [[TheTheocracy "Christian" theocracy]].

** Alderman's central thesis is that patriarchy is rooted in the intersection of sexual dimorphism making the average man physically larger and more powerful than the average woman and most societies throughout history being organized on the principle of AsskickingEqualsAuthority, and that egalitarianism flourishes in societies where violence is not the basis of a leader's legitimacy. As such, the persecution of men at the hands of more powerful women is most pronounced in countries that were rife with violence (especially against women) beforehand, with India seeing female rape gangs attacking men in broad daylight and Moldova (a former hub of [[SexSlave sex trafficking]]) subjecting men to what can only be described as "''Literature/TheHandmaidsTale'' in reverse" [[spoiler:and later [[{{Gendercide}} exterminating 90% of them]] while keeping the remaining 10% as breeding stock]].

* In "Literature/WhenTheWorldIsAllOnFire", the trope is discussed when the Native American cop kicks the white refugees off the reservation. A woman asks him why he won't share the land; he responds, "We tried that, lady, and look where it got us."

* ''Literature/ChristianNation'' flips the table on religious persecution, as Evangelical Christians in America persecute intellectuals and non-believers while they turn the country into a [[TheTheocracy "Christian" theocracy]].

** In the ''[[Literature/{{Timeline191}} Southern Victory]]'' series, the Confederate Goebbels expy is a Jew. At one point, [[AllohistoricalAllusion a character muses]] that if blacks were not scapegoated for the CSA's problems it would probably be the Jews.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the ''Literature/WorldWar'' series. Space [[LizardFolk lizard people]] with attitudes modeled after 19th century European colonialists invade Earth during World War II, but they are brought to a stalemate by the actual colonial empires. In the ensuing peace, the United States, Britain and Japan surrender most of their overseas colonies, but retain their own independence along with Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (who also retain [[CrapsackWorld nearly all]] of their conquests and puppets, one of the few exceptions being [[ThrowTheDogABone Poland]]).

* ''LightNovel/AWildLastBossAppeared'': Ruphas, despite being gorgeous by human standards, is considered horribly ugly by Flügels because they judge beauty by how close wings are to being pure white. When she was growing up the other children constantly threw rocks at her and her father would beat her if she fought back.

** In ''Literature/RuledBritannia'', the English Protestants must go underground after the Spanish invade and hand power over to the Catholics. UsefulNotes/ElizabethI is imprisoned in the Tower of London and the occupying forces include many Irish. The book is clear that foreign presence aside, the situation is nothing new for England: Protestants were top dog with UsefulNotes/HenryVIII, then Catholics with UsefulNotes/MaryTudor, then Protestants again with Elizabeth.

** ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' has a variant in which the Martian attack on England is meant to parallel the real subjugation of Africa by UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire; the invaders have more advanced technology that makes their conquest frighteningly easy, and [[spoiler:diseases that the defenders are largely immune to but which the invaders have never encountered before holds the invasion back]]. As the TropeMaker for AlienInvasion, this is what has led to similar subtext appearing in [[FollowTheLeader derivative works]]. The book specifically says that, before humans judge the Martians too harshly, they should remember events like the Tasmanian genocide (which had happened just decades earlier). Should they expect more mercy from alien beings than they gave to other humans who they colonized? The entire novel can be read as a massive TakeThat against imperialism and Wells own country in particular, showing what the British Empire did overseas happening to England.