to think "get back from where you came from" is so inappropriate?

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activity where everyone has to move seats.

leader then says "okay everyone get back to where you came from!" then claps her hand over her mouth and giggles and says "oops sorry, didn't mean to sound like a BNP supporter."

completely inappropriate in a room full of black, Asian and Chinese people? or aibu?

Which bit do you think was inappropriate? The foot in mouth start? The attempt to apologise? The attempt to make a joke of an awkward faux pas? The giggle?

Yabvvu get a grip. She was not being racist, but telling people to go back to their seats

I think thats quite funny, and I'm married to an immigrant!

Poor woman probably just said it then heard herself and though FUCK that sounds a bit dodgy.

I think it's quite funny actually.

Sounds funny to me, and I've had it said to me in a decidedly threatening manner before. Have you never said anything innocently, then realised it could be interpreted in a completely different way?

Surely you've done something similar yourself, surely we all have. Say something entirely innocent, realise how it sounds then compound the faux pas in our clumsy effort to rectify it. Then hide under our duvet every time it comes to mind for days or years.

Which bit precisely are you objecting to, as someone else said? The original remark, the giggle, the supplement?

She originally just gave a concrete instruction and realised it sounded, entirely unintentionally, like something from Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech and made a self-deprecating joke to acknowledge that in the context of a room full of ethnic minority people, it was capable of other interpretations.

Would you have preferred if she had just left the original instruction hanging in the air, while she tormented herself worrying that she had said something that could be construed as racist and other people in the room looked askance at her?

Were you the leader, OP?

I'm offended!! I pay my taxes .....

I think any mention of the BNP is gauche at best.

It sounds like something out of the Father Ted comedy show. I don't think many people would be offended by this.

I am an immigrant and work as a facilitator. What people don't realise is that when you are running training you are thinking about:

The time and what you can fit in
The schedule and what comes next
Who is looking bored/tired/lonely
Have you covered enough
Is it going in
Who last spoke/answered and who hasn't yet
Have you covered all the teaching styles
Is the room comfortable (generally you are hotter than the participants because you are moving more)
Do you have to do certificates/food/seating or anything else

Sometimes your brain is too busy and something stupid comes out.

Yes. and you cannot mention the bridge is sloped on case there is a Chinese person on it.

ffs .. people need to get a grip. Soon we will just stop communicating for fear of upsetting someone.

Did she goose step a la Basil Fawlty?

phonebox - rumbled.

Oh thank God, I have honestly been so stressed and worried about this. I swear I meant nothing at all by it but there were so many people of different nationalities, I am absolutely dying.

They all laughed and were SO nice - but I just can't help but think they went home and said they went on a course run by Nick Griffin's wife

it would never have occurred to me that anything was dodgy about what she said, in the context she said it, but I tend to take most things at face value.

Sorry OP. Don't worry, whatever we say you will die a little inside every time you think about it. Enjoy.

YABU to be doing reverse AIBUs. The accidental comment, not so much.

I think it makes you sound as if you're anti-BNP, if anything. Which is surely a good thing to most people!