Hispanics must have their panties in a bunch today.
“Hispanics must have their panties in a bunch today.”
Columbus Day in Latin America is called the Dia de la Raza; ie, “the Day of the [Latin] Race”.
It stems from a time before Hitler when “race” was used much more loosely than now, and not in a genetic sense (ie, the anglo-saxon “race”, which did not include Germans or anyone outside the British isles).
Nowadays, of course, we are much more sensitive ... but I’m not sure we are not more intolerant, instead of being less so...