"the Canadian national sport is to criticize USA but they're sure glad we're between them and Mexico and the only other border they have is with... ocean." -posted by Acroy.
Seems rather insulting to ALL Mexicans.
He was quoting a Canadian visiting his office, not disparaging Mexico.
However, I'm not sure it's personally insulting to Mexicans to say that a country would prefer a border with the US to a border with Mexico. There are many non-racial reasons that could be true. For example, the US has an objectively higher GDP, so more money would come from sharing a border with the US than Mexico. More to the point of the remark, illegal border crossings from Mexico to the USA are objectively much higher than from the USA to Canada.
Except that it was completely irrelevant to the conversation. A "Canadian national sport" also implies it isn't confined to some guy visiting an office. Yeah I am sure it has to do with GDP, and NOT with Mexicans themselves and the way Americans portray them. If I were a Mexican I absolutely would find it insulting. Kind of like telling folks in the state right next to mine I wish they didn't border my state.
Speaking of completely irrelevant, this conversation is about lunasol saying "I am deeply hurt by all of the sarcastic posts on this thread. " I asked for a specific post, and I still don't know of any posts here that have been "deeply hurtful". Even if all of Canada is filled with racist assholes (I don't believe that), pointing that out is not a hurtful or sarcastic thing to do.
How YOU feel is completely irrelevant. So I do agree with part of your post ( : Perhaps you should ask Lunasol.
Are you serious? That's exactly what I did, and YOU responded. But I politely didn't tell you that how YOU feel is completely irrelevant.