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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here replying with what actually happened since people seek to think it matters so much as far as my response:

We were casually chatting at a school event. The school, which is a private school and heavily Hispanic in population, had some work done on the grounds which wasn’t done all that well. She said “this is going to sound racist but it looks like something Mexicans would do.”  I told her that was offensive and walked away upset. She texted an apology and said what she said was in bad taste and inferred it wasn’t a good joke.

My spouse is Latino. [/quote]

Thanks for adding context. Yup, sounds racist to me. She is also stupid. Some of the most highly skilled and hard working people I have worked with have been been “Mexicans”. [/quote]

Mexicans isn't a race. It's a nationality.

Is your husband Mexican, OP? If not, how does he feel with you lumping him in with other Latino people?[/quote]

Also, do not discount the fact that many people in, and from, Mexico, are white.  [/quote]

This.
Many people don’t realize that Hispanic is  an ethnicity, i.e., a group having a cultural or linguistic identity, not a race. [/quote]
But heaven forbid you are Hispanic identifying as your race of Black, Native American, White, Asian or mixed race. Non-Latinos hate that.[/quote]

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