Distinction between beautifulness and being ugly is contextual. An individual can praise your beauty but when it is out of context it turns out to be a sarcastic mention. Same holds good for an outward degrading comment. It is all about being in right context.
We can see a group of esteemed people praising a person for his bravery and crowning him as their messiah. But in reality they expect him to do the ugly job for them in return for all the praise and honor. And a smart person who enjoys this coronation just posts the ugly job to the underdogs using the same technique used against him by the esteemed i.e. he anoints the underdogs as protectors of the supremacy.
This is a vicious ecosystem of ugliness and is most accepted form of ridiculousness which everyone in the loop are aware of. But vulnerable are the ones who are innocents who donot know they are indeed hired for doing the ugly job of the drag racers. They may or may not realize the trap. Even after they realize, it will always be too late.
Though a well informed person may not be visibly affected by this below the table understanding, but these kind of duplicity will be emboldening the individuals who betrays accountability eventually create an ecosystem favoring formation of more duplicates.