User blog comment:Varzan Deodinm Beldinm/Volume 2: Will the Fan Feedback Pay Off?/@comment-89.101.114.87-20140702124104/@comment-3146930-20140702170038

However there is a difference between being a racist and just being a really big jerk and bully. From what we have seen, Cardin's main target was Jaune from all the things we have seen him do in flashbacks and spends his time making Jaune his gopher. He also makes Pyhhra his target when she shows him up in class. We have only seen him be mean to Velvet in a 30 second scene. If it is true that he is mean to everyone as Jaune suggests, then he could just be a simple bully and not really a racist; he bullies regardless of race. He may have called her those names because those are the words that would most hurt her, much like how he tried to get Jaune to toss that jar at Pyrrha because that would most hurt him.