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"It's greek to me" implies that something is utterly confusing.

If "chinese whispers" has racist tones, surely implying a language is nearly unintelligible must be the same.

It's greek to me, implies you don't speak greek, there is no negative prejudice applied to the greek people or their language.

Chinese whispers the name of a game that information is lost/changed/confused (aka Telephone) as so helpfully pointed out above comes from the idea that Chinese are deliberately confusing and unintelligible.

I was merely pointing it out to raise awareness... and tried to do so without crediting any malice to the OP.

Ironically you're passing along a description of the origin of the phrase that seriously mangles what the person who mentioned that possible origin as one of several described.

The phrase "it's all Greek to me" comes from Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar:

"He gave a speech in Greek."

"What did he say?"

"It was all Greek to me."

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