User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Volume 2: Will the Fan Feedback Pay Off?/@comment-89.101.114.87-20140702124104/@comment-24994749-20140702232710

The reason the flashback on Cardin's bullying is purely about Jaune it's because the events are being recalled by him and Pyrrha and they were discussing Jaune, not Velvet.

As I said before, just because he is racist it doesn't mean he will be nice to his own race.

Cardin proved he had a racist mindset when he got his line during the history class.

On top of beign racist, he is also a bully. I had to fend off against at least 2 bullies when I was in Secoundary school, so I know how they think.

Bullies are, in most cases, in a big ass need of reasurance, so they use physical or psycological force to put someone else in a position under them.

Velvet is a faunus, Cardin thinks of her as an "animal" so he bullies her in public with the support of his team when she is on her own to show he is socially "above" her.

Jaune was shown to be "weak" from a physical point of view, so Cardin targeted him to show how "above" him he is physically.

Pyrrha humilliated him in class. Problem was, she humilliated him by giving the correct answer to something he answered wrong but with an answer he believed was right because of his racist mind set. He can't outsmart her by waiting for another moment in the class to give him the chance to answer correctly to something she answered wrong because that's not what was wronged from his point of view, so he has to humilliate her socially by making her be betrayed by her own team leader. That situation was a sort of "double bullying": first, he was asserting superiority over Jaune throught black mailing, then, over Pyrrha, by controlling the one person she has to follow.