Is It Necessarily A Bad Thing?

Superiority assertion.
Always a bad thing?
I've always thought that comparison of human beings to one another was a bad thing. All my life.
But how many ways does this happen, and how? Asserting superiority is the embarrassing, hideous game of children;as a child I found it embarrassing and hideously degrading for all concerned when another child said "My dad/dad's car/toy is better than yours."
Get the essential cowardice of the approach;only things, they never have the guts or honesty or self-belief to come right out and say "I am superior to you."

So what do they do when they reach this barrier of timidity? How do they assert superiority without actually naming any reason for their better quality?

Well, like the Nazis, they don't.
They look for ways to regard external entities as inferior.
To what?
Doesn't matter.
Just inferior.

So, when confronted by this chronic evil, it is worth remembering that assertions of superiority are almost exclusively conducted in the negative sense.
You are inferior to them.....because you are good looking and all good looking people are perverts/cowards/weak, or because you are intelligent and all intelligent people are useless/weak/cowardly.

etc
Etc!
But what happens when you turn around and punch them on the nose?Figuratively or literally?
They usually cry.
They return to that inner wasteland of misery from where their impulses spring, and wallow in self-pity at 'injustice', the injustice that says while they obey the unspoken rules of bigotry, others do not, and that is 'unjust', according to equality.
Well, I've got news for them.
Equality is political.
And that's the end of the story.