hundredmillionlifetimes
Banned
In some respects I agree with you HMLT, the Muslim as other, as enemy as keystone holding the whole western liberal/capitalistic project in place is accurate (replacing of course the figure of the Soviet Union)... however it is in other senses unavoidable once one is drawn into the worship of power- of course it would then be up to the individual in question to decide whether such a "package" was for them, and Vim obviously decided long ago so. And to that extent although I think he is not an out-and-out racist, he is one who endlessly seeks to legitimise systems and beliefs which are themselves to a certain extent constituted by the racial construct. It is a subtle and pervasive form of prejudice, (more subtle than him ever saying in so many words that Muslims are, as you put it "evil, are crazed sub-humans hell-bent on destroying all of humanity"), which is inextricably bound together with the rest of his world view.
I agree with this analysis, though it is necessary to tease out exactly what is meant by an 'out-and-out' racist, as opposed to a 'normal' one. It isn't enough that we accept the stereotypical view of the manifest racist as purely the violent 'thrill-seeking' thug intent on genocide, but equally the latent 'white man's burden' with his onerous 'duty' to bring [white western] civilization to the savage native Other, in addition to recognizing racism itself as a fundamental phantasmatic displacement of an underlying class antagonism. Needless to say, it is because racism is so endemic in the West, is so naturalised, institutionalized, and depoliticised, that it becomes so easy to dismiss Vimothy's variety as the common-or-garden 'normal' instanciation.