User blog comment:VedranTheII/At what point is a writer like Cardin Winchester?/@comment-26397825-20150712112539/@comment-24993958-20150713185732

…well, in real life, yes. But in a story a character is as complicated as you want him to be.

Cardin could be faking his racism, he could be a bird faunus who had his wings cut out, he could be a lot of things, but if they writers don’t want him to be anything more than what was shown…he won’t be anything more, at least not in canon.