Designated Acceptable Targets

A work portray a group as being an Acceptable Target: If Bob is a member of this group, this is portrayed as automatically making him evil, a Straw Loser, and/or similar. Please note that this is only for in-universe examples: Do not add tropes or examples that are Audience Reaction or otherwise YMMV.

Tropes that are, or often work as, subtropes of this, include:


 * Activist Fundamentalist Antics
 * All Gays Are Pedophiles
 * Animal Wrongs Group
 * Bondage Is Bad
 * Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
 * Depraved Homosexual
 * Depraved Bisexual
 * Everyone Hates Mimes
 * Evil Lawyer Joke
 * Hollywood Atheist
 * Orderlies Are Creeps
 * Stop Being Stereotypical
 * The Unfair Sex

Comic Books

 * In Sin City, Marv designates hitmen in this way: "I love hitmen. No matter what you do to them you don't feel bad."

Web Original

 * The Inside Scoop episode Ban Left Marriage is all about arguing for why left-handed people should be designated as an acceptable target group. (The whole thing is a satire about homophobia.)