(07-17-2019, 11:13 AM)BLINGMW Wrote: But if I were in a conversation at a local bar with a white guy from the UK, and he was going on and on about how much our health care sucks and how great their NHS is, and I got tired of hearing his nonsense and said "go back to where you came from", no-one would bat an eyelash.
Disagree. It's being exclusionist and dismissive based on someone's country of origin and never okay.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48993211
Iain Tyson says that when he was stopped while driving by a Los Angeles police officer, the officer heard his British accent and - using an expletive - told him to go "back to where you came from".
He said that during his travels in the US, he has frequently been told: "If you don't like it, why don't you go back to where you came from?"
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth