A good observation. And says a lot about entitlement and how it works.
I'll back up to something Brent said on the previous page:
Brentai wrote:I think Dawkins's entire problem is that he doesn't understand that he's punching down.
I think in Dawkins's case, a lot of it is Engineer's Disease: he's an expert in his field of study, and he thinks that qualifies him as an expert outside his field of study. His transphobia, in particular, is an example where he thinks he's talking about biology -- something he knows a lot about! -- but in fact he's actually talking about psychology and sociology. Those are topics he's shown some insights into -- the notion of memes is actually a hugely important contribution to the social sciences! -- but in this case in particular, he's mistaken social constructs for immutable physical characteristics.
Speaking more broadly -- and this ties in a bit with what Carlin says in the video -- there's a whole lot of bigotry that comes from a place of cishet white men mistakenly believing that
they're* the ones who are oppressed. I think that's a lot like AutisticAbby's observation about people using "respect" to mean two entirely different things, in the same sentence, and not even realizing that's what they're doing.
A lot of people who benefit from privilege, and who have just internalized the way things are as the Natural Order of Things, people calling out their privilege, and seeking to tear it down, feels like it's unfair discrimination against
them. Instead of just an attempt at removing the unfair discrimination they benefit from, all the time, without even thinking about it. They think having their authority questioned is the equivalent of having their personhood questioned.
They've internalized their entitlement so much that they've mistaken it for being the same thing as their personhood.
* I considered using "we're" here since I am, in fact, a cishet white man, but switching back and forth between "they" and "we" made a mess of my sentence structure, so I decided to just stick with "they".