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Originally Posted by scastle
That is picking hairs. Generally, it can be assumed that people from different countries are from a different race, so, telling somebody to go back to their own country can be construed as a racist comment.
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Its not splitting hairs at all mate. There is a distinction. What you've said is exactly the problem, regardless of someones reasoning (however wrong it may be) for hating someone from a foreign country it gets put down as racism. Its not racist to hate assylum seekers because you believe them to be getting preferential treatment.
That is not my view before anyone has a go at me, but I do think its important to make the disctinction between what racist and what isn't.