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{{quote|'''Homer''': If we wanted to see Japanese people, we could have gone to the zoo.
'''Marge''': ''Homer!''
'''Homer''': What? The guy who washes the elephants is Japanese! His name is Takashi. He's in my book club!|''[[The Simpsons]]''}}
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A character accidentally does something that is [[One Side of the Story|interpreted]] by everyone else as racist, and everyone starts treating him like a pariah. Any attempt to prove that he's not really racist ends up backfiring and making him look even ''[[Digging Yourself Deeper|more]]'' racist.
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== Meta ==
* Certain tropes on this wiki are sometimes interpreted as racist.
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== Web Originals ==
* Richard Herring's ''[[As It Occurs Toto Me]]'' podcast. Richard describes how twenty years ago he was playing a skinhead in a play and was turned away from a Pizza Hut because they assumed he was racist. He then told of how he was recently given bad service in a branch of Pizza Express because he has a Hitler moustache (which he had because for his stand up show Hitler Moustache). He said there should be a campaign against people who aren't racist being discriminated because people think they're racist (although he admits that he is probably the only person with that problem).
** Funny, considering that a major percentage of skinheads are decidedly anti-racist, and hold special loathing towards those who mixed the neo-Nazi and skinhead subcultures together.
* [[Rhett and Link]] knew that their [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOyMSEWNTs Red House Furniture Commercial] would create controversy, but it has no touches of racism in it. In fact, it is the exact opposite. It may only include blacks and whites, but they made it very clear that persons of all races are welcome at The Red House.
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