They Wanted a Foreigner

[RockRaven]

3. Cox is so fucking bigoted, deep down, that it doesn't even occur to him how that sounds

to someone who isn't as fucking bigoted as he is. It is so ubiquitous around him too, like the fish who can't comprehend the water in which it swims.

Or perhaps he is a knowing, self-aware, proud bigot.

Someone of the former type might have been embarrassed by people pointing out what he had said, and apologized or "clarified" it. Has he done so?