I don't think bigotry is inspired by any conflict, real or imagined, between the hater and the hated. I believe some people just need to hate SOMEBODY. They need to divide the universe into Us and Them in order to justify violence against a stranger. They will hate the foreigner, the man from the neighboring village, or from the neighborhood across the tracks, the Jew, the ethnic or racial Other, the rich (or the poor), the religious faith of the stranger, his country, where he goes to school, or even what sports team he supports. They just need somebody to hate. Hell, look at the English, Welsh, Scots and Irish; the hatred seems to be primarily historical, most outsiders have trouble telling them apart!

When Trump started blaming the Chinese for Covid, suddenly we saw an explosion of hate crimes against Asians, even if those Asians were not Chinese. Hell, even if the Chinese government IS responsible for Covid, the Chinese who have been living here for generations certainly had nothing to do with it. After 9/11, suddenly Muslims or Arabs wound up on the shit list, even when the Bush Administration (to its credit) warned against scapegoating them for the terrorism. And, since bigotry is highly correlated with ignorance and stupidity, anybody who wore a turban (like the Sikhs or Hindus) were fair game. And then there were the Mexicans, Central Americans, any brown person from South of the Border or the middle east, or Southern Asia. Its no longer cool to hate the blacks, there's too many of them and they're pissed, so that form of bigotry is now disguised with dog whistles, and innuendo, or maybe just substituting "urban" for "nigger". or "community" for "ghetto". Fascists will latch on to any convenient minority to fire up their base. Logic has nothing to do with it.

Some people just need to hate. And when social convention or public custom or education condemns this attitude, then any convenient difference, legitimate or perceived, will do. Sexual irregularity appears to be the last bastion of bigotry, and you can count on it being zealously defended for as long as possible. People seek and cherish their justifications for hate.

Human beings feel the urge to define the social landscape into Our Tribe, and Theirs. Its probably an evolutionary thing, a primate band throwback, originating in biological territoriality or some form of sexual selection. And for some reason, it appears to be particularly associated with people of Northern European Ancestry. I'm sure its not racial or genetic, it probably has psychological, cultural or historical roots, but it still seems to be particularly bad among white folks.

Racism stings, doesn't it? That's why we get so indignant when someone accuses us of it.