Indeed. Though most people have a sufficiently powerful urge to think themselves honest that I think they usually have some internal narrative that explains why what they are saying does in fact count as "honest".

Though you have to veer into whiteness studies to get the most ironic applications of this.

"Hello! I'm a critical discourse analyst who studies how implication and usage in language conveys power and establishes social norms beyond the literal meaning of the words. Unrelatedly, no, of course, 'white privilege' doesn't mean that white people must feel guilty about it, and it's not remotely an attack on white people at all. And 'check your privilege' of course shouldn't be taken to mean that you should turn it in--you're misinterpreting the phrase on purpose! Ugh! Seriously! White people are so fragile! ... No, you can't get angry!--it's purely a clinical description of a widespread phenomenon."