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College Apologizes for Serving Mexican Food During Sci-Fi Event

16 points by dataker 11y ago

paulhauggis 11y ago
"The college received complaints saying the combination was racist because of the association between Mexicans and illegal immigrants." So if they had Chinese food buffet, would people also call it racist?? This is Political correctness gone awry and the only people making the racist connection between tasty Mexican food and Space are actually racist themselves.
- iterationx 11y ago
  >>So if they had Chinese food buffet, would people also call it racist?? If it could be used to hate on "guilty" whites, they certainly might try it.
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dikaiosune 11y ago
The future suffers from apologizing for silly things. Self-censorship is good in many ways, but it gets perverted by everyone's desire to not "get in trouble" combined with the ease of upsetting someone and having that upset amplified unjustifiably. This is crowd-sourcing big brother and absolutely should not be celebrated.
wantab 11y ago
I'm surprised that, so far, HN hasn't raked the college over the coals for this as they typically do. I'm sure that, if anyone was wearing a badge at the time, it would be held as an example of police corruption everywhere and a police state. But the posting is still young.
gayprogrammer 11y ago
I think that serving any dish at a popular event is a compliment to that particular chef, caterer, or dish being served. I don't imagine anyone felt racist going back for seconds.
gtf21 11y ago
The connection between an "intergalactic" theme and Mexican food is so tenuous as to be extant only in the minds of those who are either a) actually racist or b) really digging for something to get upset about.
Yetanfou 11y ago
Assuming it wasn't illegal Mexican food I fail to see the problem. Maybe it was? Aha!
jrs235 11y ago
"the event “demonstrated a cultural insensitivity on the part of the program planners" Should be: "the complaints “demonstrated the cultural over hypersensitivity on the part of political correctness in some people."
ap3 11y ago
As a mexican I wish all you of you ate mexican food more often - I don't understand how someone could complain about this. Maybe they should have added shreded cheddar cheese and called it tex-mex
- sogen 11y ago
  BTW (real) mexican food is so fresh, tasty and nutritious, I don't get why all the hate.
chrismcb 11y ago
Mexican food is just Mexican food... And it is yummy.

16 points by dataker 11y ago

"The college received complaints saying the combination was racist because of the association between Mexicans and illegal immigrants." So if they had Chinese food buffet, would people also call it racist?? This is Political correctness gone awry and the only people making the racist connection between tasty Mexican food and Space are actually racist themselves.

iterationx 11y ago
>>So if they had Chinese food buffet, would people also call it racist?? If it could be used to hate on "guilty" whites, they certainly might try it.

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dikaiosune 11y ago

The future suffers from apologizing for silly things. Self-censorship is good in many ways, but it gets perverted by everyone's desire to not "get in trouble" combined with the ease of upsetting someone and having that upset amplified unjustifiably. This is crowd-sourcing big brother and absolutely should not be celebrated.

wantab 11y ago

I'm surprised that, so far, HN hasn't raked the college over the coals for this as they typically do. I'm sure that, if anyone was wearing a badge at the time, it would be held as an example of police corruption everywhere and a police state. But the posting is still young.

gayprogrammer 11y ago

I think that serving any dish at a popular event is a compliment to that particular chef, caterer, or dish being served. I don't imagine anyone felt racist going back for seconds.

gtf21 11y ago

The connection between an "intergalactic" theme and Mexican food is so tenuous as to be extant only in the minds of those who are either a) actually racist or b) really digging for something to get upset about.

Yetanfou 11y ago

Assuming it wasn't illegal Mexican food I fail to see the problem. Maybe it was? Aha!

jrs235 11y ago

"the event “demonstrated a cultural insensitivity on the part of the program planners" Should be: "the complaints “demonstrated the cultural over hypersensitivity on the part of political correctness in some people."

ap3 11y ago

As a mexican I wish all you of you ate mexican food more often - I don't understand how someone could complain about this. Maybe they should have added shreded cheddar cheese and called it tex-mex

sogen 11y ago
BTW (real) mexican food is so fresh, tasty and nutritious, I don't get why all the hate.

chrismcb 11y ago

Mexican food is just Mexican food... And it is yummy.