Is it racist to tell somebody to "go home"?

Question

..I don't hesitate in using it be it male or female - whenever I see dark-skinned immigrants (mostly illegals) it's like "go home" you "...."

..well it's within my First Amendment rights as long as I mean it in a non-threatening way?

How many of you have used this term previously. If not, you're a wooly liberal for sure.

Answer 1

yes and ignorant. how do you know where they are from?

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Answer 2

Yes, it is racist, ignorant, and plain mean. How exactly do you determine that someone with "dark skin" is an immigrant and "mostly illegals"? Hello? Most of our country was inhabited by people with dark skin before Europeans decided God had given it to them. I love how people who happened to have the good fortune to be born in the United States then consider that they have more of a "right" to be here than anyone else. Like you had anything to do with being born here? Grow up and deal with your own insecurities and problems rather than projecting them on other people. If your job was outsourced, so were a lot of other people's, and with unemployment at super low levels, if you have half the work ethic of your average person coming here from Mexico, you would have a new job last week. Sorry to get personal, but this kind of ignorance totally gets under my skin...

Answer 3

Anytime I hear that, I want to get up and say, well why don't you go home too. I'm Native American and we've always been here, everyone else is a second coming. I'm not racist and have many friends of all races, but I never say that because it's ignorant people who don't know their own history who say things like that. If your not Native, then at some point in time you, your parents, granparents or great-what-ever immigrated from another country. I welcome anyone who wants to come to the US, sure beats the hell out of some other places. It may not be the best place to go up Native but is sure beats some other places in this world.

Answer 4

Honestly, i think we merely occupy a space on earth, and knowbody has ownership of a place, that concept has only come about as a result of certain societies greeds and persuit of things that they never ever possed. Furthermore i would imagine that many who are here for whatever reasons would return to the countries of their origin, if they were reimbursed for all the natural resource that was stolen from them. Then consider the number of slaves upon the backs of which many of the worlds largest companies were built, and then consider the tens of thousands of people that were begged to come to the UK to do jobs that the so called natives of this country turned their noses up at. I could go on, but what i will say in conclusion is what gives you the right to say you deserve to be here more than anyone else. I would welcome all people who are willing to make positive contributions to the country where i live, and the only people who are averse to that are the homophobic, uneducated, individuals who continue to teach and preach unfounded opinions to their children, grandchildren, freinds etc. I just think it's really quite sad that so called educated segments of society continue to perpetuate hatred or constantly find ways to justify their hatred for people who have apparent differences, without any good reason whatsoever. I find it painful that a number of pink people have had the cheek to commit so many criminal acts against their own as well as others and then when they have stolen all they can steal from us they say ''why don't you go back to where you came from'' and then society wonders why there is so much hatred.
Well maybe the important people that claim to be just are not just in the slightest. I think the Winthorpes summed it up in the film Trading Places. I don't know enough about you to say your racist, but i would say you need to have a broad number of facts to have an objective view, and i think that's virtually impossible as so so much is kept from the broader public. Credit to you though, you have taken an important step in that you are questioning your conscience, or i don't know maybe you need to have a somewhat warped view endorsed by individuals who are maybe more ill informed than yourself. Finally a 2 part question: Who decides what truths should be in the public domain, and how do they decide, and why do we as an intelligent public have no say in this process.
I'd like to know what the queen meant when she said to Burrell
''You do not know what forces are at work''. Anyways i wish you true success if it really is knowledge you seek...........

Answer 5

Why only dark skinned illegals? What about illegals from England with blonde hair and blue eyes? I knew a bunch of them in San Francisco not to mention loads of Germans staying way past their visas.

And how do you know they are illegal? Just the brown skin or do you ask to see thier birth certificates and green cards before telling them to go home?

Answer 6

Why are you so discriminatory? Do you realize that God
created men in his own image and that men are born equal
in the presence of God. Yes, I believe you are a racist and a
bigot. I hate to tell you this, but you are hurting a lot of people
who do not belong to your race, whatever it is. Are you sure
that you are more superior than us. In our country, we don't
tell people to go home, but instead show hospitality whenever
people from other races come to visit or work in our place.
I respect your opinion, but please avoid asking this kind
of question because if ever you visit us and i came to know
that you were one onewho asked this question then without
any remorse, regret and hesitation, I will shout in your face.
scram.,

Answer 7

I know that America is the melting pot of the world, "we" will let anyone in and all we ask is to please become a citizen which several of the immigrants do not but we still tolerate them and give them chance after chance. It is not polite to tell anyone to "go home" but it sure makes you feel better inside.

Answer 8

I do not mind immigrants, our nation was founded on immigrants. What I mind is my taxes going to support those that pay no taxes. If those that came to this country to work, paid their fair share of taxes and supported the infrastructure, I wouldn't care less if they were citizens or not.

Answer 9

In the UK the Race Relations Act makes it illegal to use language likely to offend. Telling someone to go home (presumably to wog-land) will likely fall foul of the act and get you in trouble.

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Answer 10

if you live in america... the whites are also immigrants.. and the browns are the locals... and I am talking about the native indians.. they are the original owners of the land and the whites just grabbed them..

so technically the dark colored people "native indians" has the logical position to say "go home you "..." trash"

Answer 11

Not if they are complaining about where they are now. I never got that. Blacks talking about how great Africa is. Yeah right, you would be starving in some village with a dirty mud-puddle as a community drinking well, and your AIDS-infested corpse would be some lions meal when you died from gunshot wounds. And Mexicans coming over and saying that Mexico is better; it makes NO sense then WHY then came here in the first place.

People just like to b*tch.