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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming that's what was really said, this is a tough one.  You say the school is heavily Latino.  Latinos do in fact joke around like that.  [/quote]

Yep. These kinds of comments are widely common and fact of life across Mexico and Latin America. I don't like it but I can also see why it's normal and casual thinking. It also illustrates there's two rules in American society. One for whites, you're joy allowed to speak like this, one for everyone else, who speak like this all the time. [/quote]

There is a wonderful thought experiment for you to consider how an in group can talk to another person from the same group but it sounds different coming from someone outside of the group. [/quote]

Except it isn't an in-group joke.  Latinos are disparaging other types of Latinos.  It's like Europeans making fun of Polacks back in the day.  So if you don't like "White" people (who by the way can be Hispanic themselves) making this joke, than neither should other Latinos.[/quote]

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