Recently, someone I know told me about their parent who expresses all kinds of intolerant views regarding racial minorities, gays, etc. When confronted about it, he said it's partly a reaction to society's trajectory on those issues. I suppose that would include suppression of speech and the tendency to popularize and exalt certain form of diversity. Reminds me of the super-villain cliche of "YOU CREATED ME!" But I think there might be something there.

I recognize that I sometimes play the role of this guy:

But I believe the aptly-named imperialscum and Hey, it's me are similarly reacting. I think they are speaking to the broad trends and not intentionally labeling each and every liberal and/or Muslim in a negative way. As I've previously mentioned, I date a liberal so I know they're not all...terrible.