History Main / EverythingIsRacist

* Played for laughs in ''Film/{{F9}}''. One of the two Afro-Latino men young Dom meets in prison asserts that they weren't arrested for blowing up a bank, they were arrested because they were black.

* In an episode of ''Series/ForThePeople'', Assistant US Attorney Leonard Knox, a prep school and Harvard educated upper-class Black man whose mother is a Senator, prosecutes a crooked Black real estate developer for fraud. The guy's legendary Black defence lawyer depicts his client as a self-made Black man being persecuted by a racist white establishment, and accuses Leonard of being a [[TheWhitestBlackGuy white-acting]] [[CategoryTraitor Uncle Tom]]. As Leonard pointis out, the lawyer is a shameless {{Hypocrite}} who has spent most of his career defending white CorruptCorporateExecutives who directly or indirectly hared Black communities, and dumped his cancer-stricken Black wife for a much younger white woman.

** Sister site Not Always Working has a self-proclaimed "[[https://notalwaysright.com/a-rebel-with-too-many-causes/58007/ Social Justice Warrior]]" who takes this trope UpToEleven; literally ''everything'' that anyone says is potentially racist/sexist/ableist/whateverist.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'': K1-B0 frequently accuses the others of being "robophobic" towards him.

* "Conspiracy Brother" in ''Film/UndercoverBrother'' constantly reads racist implications into everything, even saying "Hi." As in "Oh really, Hi? As in "High-yellow wanna-be WHITE!?" It really says something that he is in a movie where there ''actually is'' a White conspiracy led by "TheMan" to keep Black people down and he ''still'' comes across as paranoid. The [[AnAesop lesson]] is that just being ProperlyParanoid doesn't mean that you aren't paranoid.

This trope occurs when a character frequently perceives racism, sexism, and/or other forms of prejudice where it is not intended or obvious to an outside viewer. Usually the character is a member of the group which is supposedly being discriminated against, but a non-member exhibiting PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad works just as well. Even better if the ''actual'' group members [[OpinionOverride are aware that they are not actually being discriminated against]].

* Weaponized in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'': [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad PC Principal]] teaches [[PlayerCharacter the New Kid]] how to spot "microagressions", letting them get a free hit on enemies that [[EnemyChatter say anything]] that might be bigoted towards the New Kid's race, gender identity, sexuality, religion, or economic class.

* Volt from ''ComicBook/{{Irredeemable}}'' is an ElectricBlackGuy (and a clear {{expy}} of superheroes such as ComicBook/BlackLightning and ComicBook/{{Static}}) who frequently had a tendency to pull this out. There are some moments where his hair-trigger accusations found their mark (such as pointing out condescending remarks and [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] his status as a black superhero with electricity based powers), and then there are the times when they don't (like accusing teammate Bette Noir of being with her husband Gilgamos because he wasn't black).

--> '''Axel Foley''': Don't you think I realize what's going on here, miss? Who do you think I am, huh? Don't you think I know that if I was some hotshot from out of town that pulled inside here and you guys made a reservation mistake, I'd be the first one to get a room and I'd be upstairs relaxing right now. But I'm not some hotshot from out of town, I'm a small reporter from "Rolling Stone" magazine that's in town to do an exclusive interview with Michael Jackson that's gonna be picked up by every major magazine in the country. I was gonna call the article "Michael Jackson Is Sitting On Top of the World," but now I think I might as well just call it "Michael Jackson Can Sit On Top of the World Just As Long As He Doesn't Sit in the Beverly Palm Hotel 'Cause There's No Niggers Allowed in There!"

* The documentary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRVL8tibOo A Conversation About Race]] explores racism in modern America, and puts forth the theory that most claims of racism directed at blacks, Indians, and Hispanics are actually this trope.

* Music/{{Ludacris}} in ''Film/{{Crash}}'' endlessly rants about being stereotyped as a ScaryBlackMan, [[{{Hypocrite}} as he goes around stealing people's cars at gunpoint]]. This is even lampshaded when he notes to his friend of how they're outnumbered by white people where they are and asks "So why ain't we afraid?" "Maybe 'cause we got guns?" his partner in crime guesses. "You could be right," Ludacris' character agrees, ''just before they run up to carjack a white couple''.

--> '''[[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Lance]]:''' Always trying to shut the white man down.
--> '''[[Creator/DaveChappelle Conspiracy Brother]]:''' THAT'S RIGHT! That's Right!... Oh, ain't right.

* Willie in ''Film/HanginWithTheHomeboys'' blames every bad that happens to him on racism when in fact he's just lazy. A girl points this out and asks him if he's ever marched in a rally. Two of his own friends even point this out. First, Vinny who warns he'll end up an old, homeless, bum if he keeps blaming others for his own lack of trying. And Tom, who does so with a powerful TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* ''Film/NationalSecurity'': Black Earl Montgomery sees racism in ''everything''. This messes up his chances of becoming a police officer. When white cop Hank Rafferty finds Montgomery trying to break into his own car after locking his keys inside, he (naturally) asks whats going on. Montgomery's immediate response is to scream racist cop, rather then asking for help, then using the title and his driver's license to provide proof-of-ownership.
** The irony being that Montgomery himself is the racist one. Choosing not to help Hank reconcile with his black girlfriend (further proof Hank is not racist) because he does not approve of inter-racial relationships (specifically, when the man is white; he himself has no problem hitting on a white girl).

* Sam from ''Film/DearWhitePeople'' once wrote a sixteen page essay on how ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is an allegory for how suburban White Americans fear black people.

** Creator/ChrisRock's "Nat X" character viewed ''everything'' through a filter of automatically-presumed prejudice, even when it made no sense whatsoever. For instance, he was the host of a public-access cable TV show in a 15-minute slot, but claimed a racist conspiracy kept him from having a full half-hour, and he believed racism was the reason black jellybeans tasted so awful. He also thought "Black History Month" was in February because that was the shortest month:

* [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]] will frequently accuse people of being racist towards him, "Iz it cuz I iz black" despite being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy quite obviously not black]]. In an inversion to this trope, Creator/SachaBaronCohen picked the name "Ali G" because he figured people would be less likely to get into a shouting match with someone with an Arab-sounding name, for fear of looking like they were racist, but if Arabs complained, they could always claim that Ali is short for "Alistair." In the film ''Ali G: In Da House'', Ali's full name is revealed as the oh so English (okay, Scottish) "Alistair Leslie Graham."

** In one episode Liz dated a black lawyer, who believed the only reason any white woman would want to break up with him was because they were racist. Or gay.

** In another episode, George tells his new boss that he looks like boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. The boss assumes that George thinks all black people look alike. This causes George to spend the episode trying to prove to his boss he isn't racist, which of course [[HilarityEnsues blows up in his face]]. At the end of the episode a black guy mistakes George's boss for Sugar Ray, but unfortunately for George, his boss had left the building mere seconds ago.
** In "The Pool Guy", the titular pool guy, Ramon, thinks that the only possible reason Jerry doesn't want to be friends with him is because Jerry is prejudiced against people who clean pools for a living.

::: To make matters worse, the only person Jerry finds who thinks this whole anti-Dentite business is as ridiculously blown out of proportion as he does turns out to be genuinely racist.
** In "The Cigar Store Indian", Jerry gives the titular object to Elaine as a gift after a fight while she is with a group of her friends; he also includes a card full of Native American stereotypes ("Let's bury the hatchet. We smoke-um peace pipe!"), which he insists on reading aloud, then chants a "war cry" while rocking the statue. One of her friends (who Jerry has a crush on) gets visibly upset and leaves. Jerry asks why she got so upset...and is promptly told that she's Native American. He still ends up getting a date with her, and on the date he constantly does things that make him look racist (like stopping himself from saying "Indian giver" and "scalper" and replacing them with awkward BuffySpeak alternatives at the last second). The final nail in his coffin happens when he attempts to figure out directions to a nearby Chinese restaurant and asked a mailman who was bent down and collecting letters from a mailbox--"You ''must'' know where this Chinese restaurant is." The mailman then stands up and turns around, revealing himself to be a very offended Chinese man. And as the icing on the cake, Kramer zooms by in a taxi at that moment with the cigar store Indian (Elaine gave it to him because she didn't want it), screams "HEY, JERRY! LOOK WHAT I GOT!", and does the same "war cry" that Jerry did earlier.

** When Turk and Carla go to a bakery to find that they only have white {{cake toppers}} Turk is offended, and when the baker asks if he would like him to paint the male one using chocolate, he compares it to {{blackface}} and accuses the whole bakery of being racist. Of course, in this case he's deliberately doing it just to get back at Carla.
** In one episode Turk tells JD a patient is racist because he offered him his fried chicken. [[IResembleThatRemark He loves fried chicken and "ate that bad boy like it was my last meal"]], but the patient had no way of knowing that.

* Ken Hotate, the Wamapoke leader and casino exec from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'', likes to [[InvokedTrope invoke]] this trope to manipulate white people, either to play off their WhiteGuilt for the betterment of his people or business, or just to [[{{Troll}} mess with them]].

* ''Series/KitchenNightmares'': One owner claims that the complaints about his restaurant are because he's a black business-owner in a largely white neighborhood. Unsurprisingly to everyone but him, this just added ''more'' problems as customers were incensed that they were being called racists for having ''legitimate problems'' with the restaurant.

-->'''Latrell:''' Oooooooh, I get it... I'm not persecuted, I'm just a asshole.

** In another episode, Charlie gifts President Bartlet, who loves antiques, with a map of the Holy Land region of Southwest Asia dating back to 1709. Bartlet wants to have it framed and hung in the White House, but Toby (who, as mentioned above, is Jewish) tells him he can't, because Israel isn't on the map. A confused Bartlet points out that the nation of Israel ''didn't exist at the time'' (Israel as a state came into being in 1948), but Toby explains that it doesn't matter--hanging a map of the Middle East that doesn't include Israel will be viewed as anti-Semitic by the general populace (not to mention Israel itself).

** Andre Blair from "Bling" is almost a classic AngryBlackMan, who spends most of his time in court sneering that people are only willing to suspect him over the other suspect is because of their respective races... completely ignoring that he has both a valid motive for the murder ''and'' a history of being violently temperamental and physically abusive, such as the time he ''threw a man out of a window''. It's at least mildly deconstructed in that Andre's antics only serve to make the jury ''more'' convinced of his guilt, such as when he sneeringly declares that he can't have been responsible for ordering an attack on the other suspect, who is claiming that Andre intimidated him into falsely claiming responsibility by threatening his family, because if he had given such an order, the other suspect wouldn't have survived it.
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'': In "P.C.", lesbian rights ([[InsistentTerminology no, not LGBT rights]], solely ''lesbian'' rights at first) activist Babs Duffy constantly accuses peoples of lesphobia, usually over trivial slights. However, she [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight turns out to be right]] that there really is a rapist targeting lesbians, who actually ''did'' commit a deliberate slight against her just so she'd be irked. Her militancy [[HoistByHisOwnPetard backfires against Duffy]] after she comes out as being bisexual, [[NoBisexuals which outrages her followers]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': On the Citadel, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h_u3-mTZug a turian]]: says he doesn't have a biotic amp after objecting to being asked to remove any biotic amps, tries to smuggle a 15-centimeter serrated blade with him, misses his shuttle because he was held back by security for trying to smuggle that 15-centimeter serrated blade on board, and lastly complains the next shuttle is taking too long to arrive for his taste. His response to it all? "[[HypocriticalHumor You humans are all racist]]!" He does claims it to be a ceremonial item of his people, and with the Turian culture being rather militaristic, it is possible it really was. Still playing the race card a bit too much, though.
** This may have been inspired by Sikhism, as Sikh men indeed carry ceremonial knives along with their turbans and beards as sign of their religion. For a long time they were exempt from the "no weapons"-rule on airplanes on Indian airlines.

* Simeon Yetarian of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' runs a scam from his [[HonestJohnsDealership luxury car dealership]] where he sells cars cheaply but with exorbitant interest rates on the notes, usually preying on those who he knows can't afford them so that [[PlayerCharacter Franklin]] can legally repossess the cars. Whenever, someone calls him out on this, he accuses them of being racist against Armenians.

* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'': Carlo "The Cleaver" Varese is one of the four men who runs the seedy underbelly of Novigrad. "Cleaver" is widely known for being an AxCrazy madman who got his nickname from his favored way of instilling discipline in his subordinates and creditors and has his fingers in every criminal pie from slaving to trafficking to narcotics to fencing stolen goods to illegal gambling. He is also absolutely certain that any complaint anyone might have against him, his way of earning a living or his business practices stems from baselass anti-dwarfish prejudice and not from the fact that he is a violent madman who enables other violent madmen and profits from people's misery.

* A RunningGag on WebVideo/CinemaSins videos is to comment "That's racist" about non-PC lines or images, even though ItMakesSenseInContext or they belong to non-sympathetic or villainous characters. For example, disparaging comments about fantasy creatures like elves will lead to the narrator to comment "[[FantasticRacism That's racist]]".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E14TheZiffWhoCameToDinner The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]", after Artie Ziff has been acting like a total {{Jerkass}}, Marge is about to to give him the TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:

* In ''ComicBook/KurtBusieksAvengers'', Triathalon is angry about how he joined the Avengers due to a government mandate and a manufactured case of HeroWithBadPublicity for the Avengers, so during ''ComicBook/TheDeathSongOfKulanGath'' and the issues preceding it, he acts like this since he feels like he's a TokenMinority on the team.

* Played depressingly straight on ''Series/BlueBloods'' with Darnell Potter, a StrawmanPolitical who represents the real-life Black Lives Matter movement. Potter constantly accuses the NYPD of racism and police brutality, and often directs his neighbors and friends to refuse to cooperate with the cops in any circumstance. Since the show paints a very rosy picture of the NYPD (any problems among the police are single "bad apples" and not indicative of any larger trends), Potter is almost always portrayed as being in the wrong or, in some cases, deliberately making up lies to further his own agenda, suggesting that his accusations hold no merit.

* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': In "My Understanding of Brexit", a representative of the EU tells the UK that it's racist for them to leave the EU.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1''. [[BlackAndNerdy Dex Jackson]] instructs the PlayerCharacter and [[BloodKnight Johnny Gat]] to disguise themselves as members of the Vice Kings- a bunch of {{Gangbangers}} who are primarily black- and go cause mayhem in a civilian area to [[FalseFlagOperation draw police attention to the Vice Kings]] and deprive them of their police immunity. Their disguises, by the way? [[PaperThinDisguise Yellow hoodies]]. Johnny, who is Korean-American, indignantly says "I'm yellow enough as is, Dex." Dex is in no mood for Johnny's nitpicking, though.

* In ''ComicBook/KurtBusieksAvengers'', Triathalon is angry about how he joined the Avengers due to a government mandate and a manufactured case of HeroWithBadPublicity for the team, so during ''ComicBook/TheDeathSongOfKulanGath'' and the issues preceding it, he acts like this since he feels like he's a TokenMinority on the team.

A SubTrope of AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues. Compare AngryBlackMan, MalcolmXerox, StrawFeminist, MistakenForRacist, UnfortunateImplications, EveryoneIsSatanInHell, InsaneTrollLogic.

* [[Series/DaAliGShow Ali G]] will frequently accuse people of being racist towards him, "Iz it cuz I iz black" despite being [[PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy quite obviously not black]]. In an inversion to this trope, Creator/SachaBaronCohen picked the name "Ali G" because he figured people would be less likely to get into a shouting match with someone with an Arab-sounding name, for fear of looking like they were racist, but if Muslims complained, they could always claim that Ali is short for "Alistair." In the film ''Ali G: In Da House'', Ali's full name is revealed as the oh so English (okay, Scottish) "Alistair Leslie Graham."

** In another episode, Charlie gifts President Bartlet, who loves antiques, with a map of the Holy Land region of Southwest Asia dating back to 1709. Bartlett wants to have it framed and hung in the White House, but Toby (who, as mentioned above, is Jewish) tells him he can't, because Israel isn't on the map. A confused Bartlet points out that the nation of Israel ''didn't exist at the time'' (Israel as a state came into being in 1948), but Toby explains that it doesn't matter--hanging a map of the Middle East that doesn't include Israel will be viewed as anti-Semitic by the general populace.

** The touchiness of racial issues is dealt with on several other occasions as well. For example, when the President is considering making Charlie Young his personal aide, he briefly has reservations that it may look bad to hire a black boy as what amounts to a valet. He gets past it, and Charlie becomes a significant and beloved character.