You seem to have a short memory or are ignoring Peens shtick. This has been going on as long as we've had a board here,
I haven't been here nearly as long as you (he's always been Brutis since I've been here.) If he really celebrated the forest fires, that's pretty awful. From what I've read, Brutis is a conservative who enjoys expressing his viewpoints in a tasteless manner. He's not unintelligent, but he doesn't want to get involved in serious discussions; he'd much rather make what he considers to be a biting comment or two, especially when he knows it will anger liberals, which he takes great pleasure in doing. I doubt he is anything close in real life to what he is describing here. He can be a jerk, at times.But there is a difference between a jerk and a bad person. You've suggested that Brutis is explicitly racist, that Brutis would enjoy personally tormenting a Muslim American, that Brutis revels in the deaths of soldiers. That means he is a bad guy, and nothing I have ever read from him would indicate this.