> I don't even know how to respond to this... my friends didn't fail out from a lack of effort. You also don't know this but all of my old friends are Mexican -

> I don't even know how to respond to this... my friends didn't fail out from a lack of effort. You also don't know this but all of my old friends are Mexican - so you are implicitly saying the reason they didn't succeed is because they are lazy Mexicans. I don't think you intended to take this stance. This is exactly the stance the GP intended to take. He said if you failed out of engineering, you're lazy. If you're Mexican, you're Mexican. Therefore if you're Mexican and you failed out of engineering, you're a Mexican who's lazy (phrased differently, a lazy Mexican). You seem to think this is racist, why is that?