College Apologizes for Serving Mexican Food During Sci-Fi Event (thepunditpress.com)

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

"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."

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

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