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Oh, that's the comment. I'd heard it, but assumed it was something from 10 years ago when he was playing a heel commentator.

I think it's a case of him not catching up with the times. In wrestling, the bad guys used to be racist and sexist as fuck. That continued until fairly recently. I think JBL in his early stint as a commentator was the last bad guy to do casual racism on the microphone -- comments on Latinos coming into the US illegally and being a detriment, claims that Jimmy Wayne Yang couldn't be a redneck because he's Asian, etc. That would have been about a decade ago give or take.

Cornette has always had a problem when it comes to crossing the line. Mainly, he seems unaware that there is one if you're playing a bad guy character. Case in point, he got the lights turned off on him back in the 80s and had to repeat a promo because he said that a certain babyface's chances were going to "go up like the Challenger." Dusty Rhodes brought him into the office, told him not to mention the Challenger, and sent him back out to reshoot his promo.

Is he a racist? I don't know. I don't think so.

He was playing a bad guy character, right?