When I was living in Maryland I had a customer come into my job and ask for a dog food that was "really finely ground, like mush". I responded "oh, like a pate?"
Cue several minutes of him angrily ranting at me about how this is America and we speak English in America and he didn't want to hear no fucking Mexican and stop speaking Mexican and start speaking English.
For those of you unaware, pate is a French word, and also the proper English loanword for the style of grind.
It also wasn't just because I'm visibly not white, as my white manager joined the conversation, I asked her for "really finely ground dog food, like mush", and she ALSO said "sure we have plenty of pate varieties" and ALSO got the angry yelling rant about how he was tired of Mexicans taking over the country and not speaking English.
I will remind you. Pate. Is a French word. And also the correct loanword in English.
To him it did not matter that we were using a French word or that the correct word IN ENGLISH is pate. It didn't matter that neither of us were Mexican. It didn't matter that not one lick of Spanish had even come out of our mouths, or that the word he was looking for was SPANISH and not MEXICAN.
He was racist and xenophobic towards Mexicans. It didn't matter that my manager and I are not Mexican and were not speaking Spanish. We still experienced a taste of anti-Mexican and anti-Hispanic bigotry, because numbnuts heard a French word and lost his temper.
Anyway every time someone says "you're [identity] so you don't get called [slur]" I think back on how I had a very angry white man screaming in my face for several minutes about how I was a stupid Mexican because I dared say a French word in his presence. Bigots are stupid. They don't care who they hurt as long as they think they have the right target.