Line #61 Main/PrejudiceTropes


1	-> ''"I don't think you're human if you don't acknowledge some prejudice."''
2	--> -- '''Creator/OrsonWelles'''
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4	[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Ugh, Tropers! I can't stand 'em.]]
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6	Here are tropes that deal with biases, bigotry, discrimination, and prejudice involving different categories of people; including racism (realistic and {{fantastic\| racism}}), sexism, sexualism, sectarianism, etc. Or just any acts of (unfairly) judging others by some (arbitrary) physical attributes or mental behaviors.
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8	Note: this index is ''not'' for tropes that you think have UnfortunateImplications. This is for tropes that are explicitly ''about'' in-universe prejudice.
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10	!!Tropes:
11	[[index]]
12	[floatboxright:
13	'''Related indexes:'''
14	+ AcceptableTargets
15	+ AgeismTropes
16	+ {{Dehumanization}}
17	+ FantasticRacism
18	+ GenderAndSexualityTropes
19	++ HomophobiaIndex
20	+ GenocideTropes
21	+ HatredTropes
22	+ InsultTropes
23	+ IntolerableTolerance
24	+ MistakenForIndex
25	+ TheOnlyRighteousIndexOfFanatics
26	+ PatrioticTropes
27	+ RaceTropes
28	+ ReligionTropes
29	+ {{Stereotype}}s
30	+ TheseTropesAreEqual
31	]
32	* AbsoluteXenophobe: We will kill anyone who is not like one of us!
33	* AbsurdlyDividedSchool: Our clique is so much better than yours, and there's no way we can get along!
34	* AcademiaElitism: My schooling is better than yours!
35	* AdultHater: [[WesternAnimation/SchoolsOutTheMusical Adults ruin everything!]]
36	* AggressiveCategorism: You're stupid because you're a troper. Therefore, tropers are stupid.
37	* AlbinosAreFreaks: Their pale skin and red eyes creep me out!
38	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ugh! I can't stand being near anyone who's much more different than us. They don't deserve to hang out with us.
39	* AngryBlackManStereotype: I constantly feel pissed off by all the oppression that my people have suffered because of white supremacy, both past and present.
40	* AngryWhiteMan: I constantly feel pissed off by all the complaints of so-called "bigotry" against straight white men such as myself, from all those [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil annoyingly woke social justice warriors]]. Now stop being so offended whenever I try to degrade you!
41	* AntiIntellectualism: I don't trust the opinions of egghead nerds who seem or act smarter than myself, or who challenge ''my'' opinions with ''their'' "facts".
42	* ApeShallNeverKillApe: You should treat the rest of our kind with proper respect... but you shouldn't be so generous to outsiders.
43	* ArmouredClosetGay: I hate homosexuals, even though I'm secretly one of them.
44	* AttractivenessDiscrimination: I'll only go out with you if you're hot. I dislike ugly people.
45	* BastardAngst: I get a hard time from others because my parents never married each other.
46	* BigotWithACrush: Even though I despise those people, I'll admit that one in particular looks so... beautiful and charming?
47	* BigotryException: I despise all tropers... except for that guy, he's the only good one.
48	* BigotVsBigot: I hate that bigot just as much as I hate those tropers!
49	* BigotWithABadge: I'm a cop and I can't stand those darn tropers!
50	* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: At last, I am the first troper to rise past a limit imposed by prejudice!
51	* BoomerangBigot: I hate those people... [[{{Irony}} despite the fact that]] [[{{Hypocrite}} I'm one of them]].
52	* TheBully: I just dislike certain people for whatever reason, so I should be cruel to them.
53	* BullyingTheDisabled: I dislike you because you're crippled.
54	* ButNotTooBlack: Your skin better not look too dark!
55	* ButNotTooWhite: Your skin better not look too pale!
56	* CategorismAsAPhobia: These people actually make me feel ''scared''.
57	* CategoryTraitor: You're taking a liking to these folk? How dare you, you traitor!
58	* ChildHater: I despise children. So yes, I'm an ageist and I don't care.
59	** TeenHater: Same goes for those obnoxious teenagers!
60	* ChildOfTwoWorlds: I'm not sure about which of these two groups I personally identify with more, because I feel like I would never really belong with both of them.
61	* CondescendingCompassion: Poor tropers. [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife Wasting their pitiful lives on this website]]. I pity their kind.
62	* ContemptCrossfire: Even if you're a part of us, we hate you just as much as the other group! While the other group hates you for being associated with us, we hate you because you're not an ideal member of us!
63	* CulturalPosturing: My civilized culture is much better than your own backwards culture, you barbaric savages!
64	* CultureJustifiesAnything: How can you object to the [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalism]] and HumanSacrifice of this vibrant culture? Do you wish to deprive these poor people of their authentic cultural expression? Racist!
65	* DeathByRacism: You tropers are worthless subhumans! You're all a bunch of-- ''(KilledMidsentence)''
66	* DehumanizingInsult: Tropers aren't human, they're nothing but vermin!
67	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Historical fiction should accurately depict such past attitudes, no matter how despicable they are today.
68	* DiscriminateAndSwitch: I can't stand that guy's kind... and I mean the fact that he didn't wipe his feet in my house. Did you think I was hating him for being a troper or something?
69	* DoesNotLikeMen: I hate men.
70	* DoesntTrustThoseGuys: I don't trust those tropers!
71	* DoubleStandard: X did Z? Eh, whatever, good for them. Y did Z? How dare they!
72	* EqualOpportunityEvil: I really don't give a damn about ''who'' I hire to do my nefarious work, or ''what'' they look or act like, just as long as they get the job done.
73	* {{Eurabia}}: Muslim people scare me. Those [[AllMuslimsAreArab Arab]] bastards are trying to conquer the West!
74	* EverythingIsRacist: Are you insulting my race, you intolerant douchebag?!
75	* EvilColonialist: I serve a powerful [[TheEmpire colonial empire]]. [[MyCountryRightOrWrong Strongly believing in our innate superiority]], I help them with conquering weaker nations and subjugating inferior races.
76	* FantasticAbleism: Not even people with [[FictionalDisability fictional disabilities]] are exempt from discrimination.
77	* FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence: Those tropers have never done me any real harm, yet I hate their damned guts anyways.
78	* FemaleMisogynist: I dislike women, despite having XX chromosomes as well.
79	* FinalSolution: We want the complete, bloody annihilation of certain races we have deemed as worthless. [[MoralMyopia What our opponents would call "genocide", we instead call it "pest control"]].
80	* FormerBigot: I used to really hate those people, but later I changed my mind about them. They're really not so bad after all.
81	* TheFundamentalist: Society should adhere strictly to ''[[EgocentricallyReligious my]]'' religious principles, and any sinners or nonbelievers who disagree will just go to Hell.
82	* {{Gayngst}}: It really sucks to be gay in this world.
83	* GayngstInducedSuicide: Normal, healthy people hate homosexuals like me. God hates me. [[InternalizedCategorism I'm worthless.]] So I might as well just kill myself.
84	* HalfBreedAngst: It sucks to have mixed racial heritage, because I can't fully identify with either one of my parents' communities, and all those racist pricks will never accept me as being one of them.
85	* HalfBreedDiscrimination: We hate you because you're a filthy, genetically impure mixed-breed. Your parents should've never dared to conceive you!
86	* HateCrimesAreASpecialKindOfEvil: Violent bigotry is irredeemably wicked.
87	* HatesEveryoneEqually: I'm not a bigot, I don't discriminate. I despise ''every'' group of people, including my own!
88	* HatesRichPeople: I despise the rich.
89	* HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster
90	* HeManWomanHater: I hate women.
91	* HeteronormativeCrusader: I can't stand those damn gay people, always plaguing our world with their disgusting lust for the same sex.
92	* HomophobicHateCrime: Gays deserve to be attacked and killed!
93	* InnocentBigot: Sorry, [[SincerityMode I honestly]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive didn't mean to offend you]].
94	* InternalizedCategorism: The fact that I'm one of ''those'' people, it really makes me feel insecure and hate myself.
95	* IntimidatingWhitePresence: White people intimidate black people because of their race (either explicitly or implicitly).
96	* IrrationalHatred: I can't stand those people, but I don't really know why.
97	* KarmicTransformation: Dammit, [[LaserGuidedKarma karma's a bitch]]. I've never dreamed of ''[[ForcedTransformation becoming]]'' one of those stupid tropers myself!
98	** ColorMeBlack
99	* TheKlan: We're the apex of white supremacy in America. We desire a return to the good old days of racial segregation, when non-white people lived in fear of us.
100	* KlingonScientistsGetNoRespect: You don't follow our [[PlanetOfHats hat]], you aren't truly one of us!
101	* LingeringSocialTensions: Discrimination may be over (at least officially) in a society, but the people still hate each other.
102	* LonersAreFreaks: I don't like loners. They're nothing but freaks or social deviants.
103	* MalcolmXerox: I'm a black nationalist of the same vein as UsefulNotes/MalcolmX. I desire to achieve freedom for my people ''[[WellIntentionedExtremist by any means necessary]]''.
104	* MalignedMixedMarriage: X and Y should never try to [[InterracialAndInterspeciesLoveIndex mate together]]. How dare they taint their racial purity!
105	* MasterRace: We believe ourselves to not just be a superior race, but ''the best race'' in the world.
106	* MisanthropeSupreme: I really hate ''all'' of humankind, even though I'm another stinkin' member of ''Homo sapiens''.
107	* UsefulNotes/MisplacedNationalism: [[PatrioticFervor My country is the best]], ''and your country sucks''!
108	* MistakenEthnicity: Wait a minute, you're not really of Troperian descent?
109	** MistakenForForeigner: I didn't realize you're actually from here.
110	** MistakenNationality: I thought you were from Troperland.
111	* MistakenForGay: Wait a minute, you're actually [[CampStraight straight]]? I thought [[CampGay otherwise]].
112	* MistakenForMisogynist: No, seriously. I like and respect women.
113	* MistakenForPedophile: How dare ''you'', as a ''man'', try to get so close and friendly with any children? I don't care if you claim to just being [[FriendToAllChildren really nice and good with kids]], or even their literal father, as I know you can only be some sick creepy pervert!
114	* MistakenForRacist: Wait, how am I being racist?
115	* MistakenForTerrorist: I'm suspicious of that weird Muslim guy, I think he must be a member of [[MiddleEasternTerrorists ISIS]]!
116	* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: That guy doesn't have any friends or talk to anybody, he ''must'' be some kind of evil monster. I don't have to actually know him to know that he's bad news.
117	* NWordPrivileges: You called us ''what''? Only ''we're'' allowed to call each other that!
118	* ANaziByAnyOtherName: We're not exactly literal Nazis, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything but our xenophobia is very comparable]].
119	* NoEqualOpportunityTimeTravel: WARNING: If you're a queer black woman, it's probably a very ill-advised idea to use this TimeMachine to visit Alabama in the year 1920.
120	* NoTrueScotsman: You're being nice to those people? No true member of this group would ever do such an awful thing!
121	* NobleBigot: I may dislike tropers, but I do have a heart.
122	* NobleBigotWithABadge: I may not like tropers much, but I still have a duty to serve and protect people, even their kind.
123	* NotBloodNotFamily: If you don't share blood, you're not family!
124	* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: I swear I'm not a bad guy, you assholes just assume the worst from me!
125	* NotLikeOtherGirls: I'll admit miss, I think you're not stupid like other girls are.
126	* OffendedByAnInferiorsSuccess: I can't stand it when their kind is more successful than me!
127	* OpinionOverride: How dare you mock this group of people that I'm not apart of! What do you mean they actually liked that offensive joke?!
128	* OppressedMinorityVeteran: Even though I fought for my country during the war, I still get treated like garbage by my fellow citizens and the government.
129	* OutsideInsideSlur: A pejorative term for someone who seems to be part of one group, but shares some traits with the opposition.
130	* PeriodShaming: Ostracising and shaming people for menstruating; often rooted in sexism/misogyny.
131	* PersecutionFlip: AKA [[RussianReversal reverse discrimination]]; for when a (usually) privileged group of people find themselves getting treated like dirt by the (usually) oppressed underclasses. A very harshly ironic form of social role reversal.
132	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Or we could just pretend it was never actually a big deal, because we really don't want to offend anyone.
133	* PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Just because I'm a villain, it ''doesn't'' mean I'm some sort of bigot, [[EvenEvilHasStandards and in fact I despise discrimination]].
134	* PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil: {{Media Watchdog}}s and MoralGuardians are overly sensitive and get way too easily offended.
135	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Just because I'm a hero, it ''doesn't'' mean I like certain groups of people.
136	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: I'm a villain, and that means I ''can'' be very hateful against certain groups of people!
137	* PoliticalOvercorrectness: {{Media Watchdog}}s and MoralGuardians can be so silly sometimes.
138	* PrejudiceAesop: I used to be prejudiced until I learned a valuable [[AnAesop lesson]] on why it's bad.
139	* PretendPrejudice: Honestly, I was just ''kidding'' about whatever bad things I said about tropers! I didn't mean any of it!
140	* PromIsForStraightKids: Only hetero couples can attend prom, not you homos!
141	* PsychologicalProjection: ''I'm'' not the bad guy, it's those awful tropers who are the evil ones here!
142	* PullingYourChildAway: Stay away from my child, you filthy brute!
143	* PunishedForSympathy: You spared Alice, even though we have orders to [[NeverSayDie take care of]] all of ''those people''? You'd better be able to explain yourself to [[ThePoliticalOfficer the Comrade Commissar]], troper!
144	* RacistGrandma: Because I'm really old, you shouldn't expect me to act PC toward other races.
145	* RainbowLens: A character experiences prejudice for a queerness-unrelated trait in a very similar way to how a person would experience prejudice related to queerness.
146	* RevengeAgainstMen: I've been hurt by men, and I'm going to take revenge on men in general!
147	* RobosexualsAreCreeps: Screwing robots results in disgusted reactions from everyone else.
148	* ScaryMinoritySuspect: I know that the TokenMinority must've committed the crime, they have an evil look about them!
149	* TheSocialDarwinist: "Survival of the fittest" means that [[MightMakesRight the strongest people deserve to dominate and/or eliminate anyone weaker than them]].
150	* SomeOfMyBestFriendsAreX, so thus I can't be biased or bigoted against them!
151	* StillFightingTheCivilWar: The loser(s) of a long-past war continues to hold prejudices against the winning side.
152	* StrawFeminist: All men are nothing but [[AllMenArePerverts dirty, lustful pigs]]!
153	* StrawMisogynist: All women should just shut the hell up, and StayInTheKitchen!
154	* SubParSupremacist: A character claims that one group of people is superior to all others, but fails to meet the criteria of that group.
155	* TallPoppySyndrome: I feel intense envy against people who are better than myself.
156	* TaughtToHate: I hate you because authority figures told me to.
157	* ThoseWackyNazis: We're the apex of fascism in Europe. We desire Germanic [[MasterRace racial supremacy]], and the [[FinalSolution total extermination]] of Jews, Romani, Slavs, etc.
158	* TooQualifiedToApply: Sorry, you exceed our expectations, so we won't hire you.
159	* TragicBigot: A [[FreudianExcuse lousy]] [[DarkAndTroubledPast past]] made me feel resentful against those people.
160	* TransEqualsGay: Those ridiculous [=SJWs=] with their "polite" words for [[PoliticalOvercorrectness 51 genders]]! Trannies, fags, {{drag queen}}s, it's all the same thing, anyway--just [[CreepyCrossdresser creepy men in dresses]]. (Trans men? What are those?)
161	* TransEqualsHypersexual: Transgender or gender-nonconforming characters are depicted as having an ExtremeLibido, no sexual boundaries, [[FetishesAreWeird bizarre kinks]], or otherwise over-the-top sexual proclivities.
162	* TransRelationshipTroubles: No one wants to date me because I'm UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}}.
163	* TransTribulations: Trans people are freaks and belong at the funny farm... Or at least, far away from me and my friends!
164	* TroubledSympatheticBigot: I don't hate that nice person, Alice, or even really her kind of people, [[CondescendingCompassion bad as they are]]. But it's gone too far, it's them or us now. I'll be doing my duty, [[DirtyBusiness may God forgive me]]. I just wish there could be another way! Alas...
165	* UnsettlingGenderReveal: The pretty girl I was flirting with is really some kind of [[TransEqualsGay gay freak in drag]]?!
166	* UrbanSegregation: We just don't want to live next-door with a particular class or category of folks.
167	* ValuesDissonance: Unfortunately, some prejudices were considered far more acceptable in the past, and this can show up in older media.
168	* VanHelsingHateCrimes: To save humanity, all vampires must be destroyed. Even if you can point to some [[FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire one-in-a-million exception]] that is ''not'' a murderous freak, why should I care? It's still a carrier of the disease that might yet doom us all.
169	* WarringNatures: I'm the child of two parents from different races. And those two races also happen to violently hate each other. Do I really have to choose a side?
170	* WeedingOutImperfections: If the world is like a garden, filthy weeds don't deserve a place in it! Who cares if they're "people just like us"?!
171	* WhichRestroomDilemma: Bigots won't let me use the ladies' room, just because I'm physically male, even though I identify as a woman. Where's the all-gender bathroom when I need it?
172	* WhiteGuilt: Past and present injustices against people of color make me feel ashamed of what people of my race have done to them.
173	* WishfulProjection
174	* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: What "genocide"? We're [[BlatantLies not trying to exterminate]] that pesky inferior race, we just want to put these subhumans in their proper place.
175	* {{Yellowface}}: Look, yes, I'm white but it's totally okay to use makeup to pretend I'm Asian. And to try speak like an Asian foreigner.
176	* YellowPeril: Asian people scare me. Those [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld Chinese]] and [[JapanTakesOverTheWorld Japanese]] bastards are trying to conquer the West!
177	* YouAreACreditToYourRace: I'll admit it, you make other tropers proud. Even if the same can't be said for the rest of them.
178	* YouAreWhatYouHate: I hate tropers. What? I ''am'' a troper?
179	* YouHateWhatYouAre: I hate myself, and all the other tropers like me!
180	* YouKnowImBlackRight: You have a lot of nerve saying such bigoted things about tropers when we're standing right here!
181	* YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutX: You know what they say about them tropers? [[JustForFun/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife They're ruining their lives]].
182	* ZombieAdvocate: It's racist to assume all vampires are murderous! Well, okay, all the ones we've met so far have been, and all the ones we've heard about, but maybe the next one will be the first nice one! [[TooDumbToLive Everyone deserves to be treated as an individual!]]
183	[[/index]]

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