Why does Sgt Hartman act like a hypocrite with his racist comments?

How was that even racist? Stereotypical, maybe. But not "racist". You must be from the US, those people have a strong PC culture to the point where they're way more sensitive than a 13 year old girl in her first period.

I'm sensing you've never been through boot camp, right?

The black dude sure had tougher skin than you, and even seemed to enjoy the situation (as in welcoming the challenge), for Hartman clearly sees him reacting as he would like, with enthusiasm!

You want degrading and inhuman boot camp? Try Mexico (the special forces, where Los Zetas graduated from)...

To the OP,actually, if you had an understanding of history and were aware of the timeline then you would understand that the civil rights movement was very big in the US of A at that time. What Gunnery Sgt. Hartman was making clear to everyone in attendance at the introduction to the Corps was that the Corps was above the rules and there was NO ONE on that planet that was going to save their asses from abuse, NAACP, CLU or otherwise. It's not that Hartman was a bigot and I am sure that he probably enjoyed group hugs with his men when the camera was off but he is making it crystal clear that your a$$ belongs to the Corps now.


Life is always intense for a repo man.

He wasn't stupid. He was doing it intentionally to try and antagonize the men to see if they could handle it.

I notice your English gets better when you want something.

Hartman's role in the film is to be the hammer that breaks the cement of the soldier's morale. A big part of the movie's plot and identity is the idea of brainwashing soldiers into obedience, taking away their free will and having them obey commands no matter what. To do that, Hartman mentally breaks his troops as soon as the film starts.

This is also part of why he bullies and abuses Pyle so much, it's not that he doesn't like Pyle any more than anyone else, it's that Pyle isn't meeting the standards, so he needs to be pushed harder. So Hartman piles (pun unintended) on the yelling and screaming and shouting to push Pyle harder and further.

He's not racist, homophobic, sexist, bigoted or anything like that. It's his job to SEEM it though. A fun little fact is that the actor playing Hartman, R. Lee Ermey, was a real life drill instructor, and almost everything he said was improvised on the spot for the scene. He just made up most of it as he went to further dehumanise the 'soldiers' he was working with.

So in short he's not a hypocrite, he's an actor playing a character who's playing a bigot to motivate his soldiers.

he is not a racist, he said that in the beginning , he hates everyone equally