Your last sentence just proves to me (my opinion) what i was thinking all along. We have been PC'd too death in this stupid fucking country! So what if you wanted tacos? But now you have to suggest fried chicken instead because the guy is a Mexican American. I'd laugh if he retorted back to you "no dummy, take a good look at me, i want fucking tacos"!
If im going to lunch with a coworker who is black OOPS i mean African American, i guess there goes the damn chicken. Better ask them if they want tacos. Unless, of course, we are also going to lunch with a Mexican American, and then we're screwed right? Better plan on Chinese food then....unless Lin happens to be going with us....damn....then we can't eat. We will be starving and unable to perform our duties, and this whole PC thing will (ironically) be the ......wait for it.....CHINK IN OUR ARMOR.
I think the problem with a lot of the hyper-sensitivity here is, people don't know how to be real. I served 8 years in the army, I've heard every possible racial slur known to man, some of which were probably just made up. 99% of the guys i served with didn't give a shit about that stuff. We're men, we can take the ribbing. Sure its different when you have a sports media covering a sports team, and they use a term they've used 100 times before, and now they have to use a different term because it might be offensive. But hey, they're supposed to be professionals. Tell me Lin's teammates dont give him shit for being Chinese, and then tell me he doesn't have fun with that himself? You guys have no idea what goes on in the locker room behind closed doors. They are a team though, they got each others back, and nobody on that team is immune to the smack talk or general pranks of other players.
Next time a coworker wants me to go to dinner with them, god help them if they ask me to go have Indian tacos (im Indian on my mothers side), Greek food (dads side of the family), Irish food (great grandma was Irish), or even a hamburger (cause im white, DUH!). See how ridiculous and out of control this all is?