But this type of thinking can be applied to anything, really. Someone says “I have some friends who are Republicans” could be analysed as having singled them out to be given specific treatment. Someone saying 'Blacks ought to receive affirmative action" ditto.
The point I was trying to make, anyway, was not about my treatment of them (trivial in the great scheme of things) but about the way they sometimes like to have it both ways. Lotsa people talking about them (their success, their style, etc), but only so long as it’s positive.
We’d all like that!