Many liberals have guilt complexes and try to transfer their sense of guilt to someone whom they believe to be more culpable. This is not to critique liberals, but only the guilty sort. Their attitudes are irrational, because they don't see that we are all implicated in some degree of oppression or some degree of sin by omission. This is what it means to live in a contingent world: we can never find perfection because we were never born into the material conditions that would guarantee anything like perfection. I apologize if this sounds obvious, but the level of self deception is high and it is plain to see that such people are deluded at the most fundamental level — about the kind of world in which they live.
Secondly, they are also deluded in feeling that they can mitigate their guilt by deflecting it.
Rightists are also like this: they believe their worlds were perfectly happy until blacks and women came to pick up after them and work for them. When there were only white males in the world -- that was a state of primeval innocence!
