What needs to be acknowledged is that his statements didnt occur in a vacuum. He felt comfortable putting that on paper because he has been encouraged by intense media bullying of Meghan to state these claims. He's learned that its okay to express hatred of women (especially a woman of color) in this manner, and that there would be no repercussions for what he said.

Plenty of people have used Meghan as an excuse to express general anti-blackness that they're not feeling comfortable enough to express about the entire group. A single wayward Black person they can pile their all their worse sins on is just the thing they need to not look racist while expressing racist sentiments towards them and Clarkson simply took it too far. he said the semi-quiet part out loud.