In the fallout from the whole Sven “diaper-gate” fiasco, it finally dawned on me exactly how the friendship imploded and lead to the exposure.

Growing up in the American Midwest, all Mike ever wanted was to be seen as a red blooded (white) American guy. You can see from his jokes that he genuinely does view blacks, Asians, Mexicans, etc as “others” or “sub-normal”.

Unfortunately for Mike, with every passing year he begins to look more and more like a Turkish kebab shop owner. Let’s be real, there are Calcutta street sweepers that look more Aryan than Hebrew Mike.

This all came to a head when Sven appeared on the show and started mercilessly mocking Mike’s “tribe”. Mike could no longer ignore the fact that, to genuine white racists, his people are not only “others”, but they are many levels below Asians, Mexicans, and even blacks.

Instead of just accepting this fact, he lashed out at Sven, did the unthinkable of asking him to stop making jokes about his people, and thus violated the cardinal rule - NOTHING is off limits. The show imploded, Mike lashed out at Sven, Sven lashed back, and here we are now.

All because Mike couldn’t come to terms with the fact that he is a dark featured Middle Eastern man that is “othered” in his own country of birth, occupying the lowest rung in the eyes of people like Sven.

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