Suppose you're outraged by the words or actions of a certain group. But instead of confronting those directly responsible, you lash out at any individual labeled as a member of that group.
What is happening here exactly? Such a person is a moral hypocrite and what he is doing is moral hypocrisy - self-righteousness that mistakes tribal outrage for virtue. He isn't aware that his very act of labeling collectively and blaming individually is the same as the target of his moral indignation - collective punishment.
He isn't aware, either, that this way he is deceiving himself as if he were morally superior to those whom he condemns individually through collective stereotyping. Self-deception is a very tricky manifestation of the so-called spiritual ego, which is the ego's clever disguise that feeds on our desire to be morally or spiritually superior, especially when judging others.
I've even seen people I deeply respect fall into this trap, expressing vengeful wishes toward an entire collective. It's another subtle form of self-deception where the spiritual ego disguises vengeance as righteousness.
I try only to observe and understand so as not to join this chain of triple moral pitfalls. I hope those caught in it will come to recognize their own spiritual ego, their self-deception, and their moral hypocrisy. Awareness is always the first step to breaking the chain. May we all first see our own shadow before we condemn another's.