Why aren't whites told to go back where they came from?

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Irish immigrants were told to go back to Ireland when they came to North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I'm sure that Germans were told to go back to Germany after WWI and WWII for a short period of between 5 and 10 years. I'm sure that a lot of Russians have been told to go back to Russia many times. However, I do agree that was a terrible mistake that Trump made telling coloured people and refugees to go back to where they came from. That's one of the few things that I disagree with him about.

People don't tell whites to go back "where they came from" because Natives are routinely ignored and belittled.

Being of largely German extraction, I can attest to how German Americans during WWI were suddenly regarded with suspicion and hostility to the point where the President, Woodrow Wilson, voiced such prejudice, the use of the German language in public had been forbidden by law, and was often accompanied by violence and even murder. It was thankfully different during WWII, where despite the fact that recent German immigrants had been arrested and even deported for Nazi sympathies, there had been little question about the loyalty of German Americans with roots in this country.

All through American history Whites were told that...by other Whites...here in America.

Ben Franklin was convinced that German settlers of Pennsylvania "would NEVER assimilate".

In the 1840's the Irish were told to go back to Ireland during the wave of Irish refugees from the Potato famine.

In the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, during the huge wave of Ellis Island era Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, those immigrants were told to go back to Poland and Italy by members of the core population of White Anglo Saxon Protestants native born Americans.

It was only in the 21st century a few years ago that the KKK finally allowed Catholics to join. Religion isn't just religion. Religion is tied to ethnicity. So by implication the KKK is finnally inviting Micks, Wops/Dagos, and Pollocks, to join its ranks.

So for most of US history Whites were racist against other Whites (ie folks from the wrong part of Europe).

BUT...White racists are starting to drop their racism against other Whites. I guess that's.... progress!

They were bigots, but probably not racists since that would mean thinking of themselves as part of an inferior race.

Whites can be prejudiced towards other Whites.An elderly relative that was English/German first generation American talked about the Slovaks that lives down the road when she was a child.It was obvious from the conversation that neither of her parents thought the Slovaks were equal to them.Like you might hire them to do farm work but not invite to tea.
Also Black folks can be bigoted to other Black people.Lighter skinned sometimes look down on darker skin.

My dad had told me how when our Palatine German ancestors had lived in the Black Sea German colonies in Russia, they had held the ethnic Russians in utter contempt, and vice versa.

(I'm well aware that if white people act neutrally they can't specifically tell the difference between one hard C Celt and another so it's not 100% the same thing, I still don't think telling people to go home to the country of their ethnic origin is ok though and I'm not moderating my behaviour based on idiots)

First time:
I was in Boots having a private conversation about Ireland. This guy turns around and stands up straight over me and bellows 'why don't you go home' in this weird slow voice he hadn't been using before and which was creepy. I told him to f off. Hypocrite, I was in my home town and judging on his accent he wasn't. I continue shopping all around the town centre, I must have taken hours on it. When I'm done, a voice comes out of nowhere as I'm getting into my car and he yells 'Fenian scum' at me.

Second time:
I was in a shopping centre in my Celtic kit and this guy comes up close to me and whispers 'Famine's over scum go home'. I ignore him and carry on with what I'm doing. I go to the food court. Then I come down the escalator. He's there waiting for me. He tells me in a normal voice 'Famine's well over scum, time to go home'. Then I continued what I was doing. As I was leaving the store he looked me up and down and said 'Fenian'.

The second time this happened was 8 days ago so I'm def talking about things which still happen.

It just doesn't happen in the States cos the States is basically a melting pot as far as white identity is concerned.

Thing is apart from the Irish healthcare system being bad, if I was deported I wouldn't mind it. I like being of Irish descent. The Irish Scot who moans most about this is Phil Mac Giolla Bhain which is ironic cos he did what they said and went back to Donegal...

Not too sure about the last bit. The Centre-Left parties in most European countries often have 'Socialist' somewhere in their names, but generally support largely capitalistic systems and have little appetite to extend (or even maintain, in some cases) public ownership. The last Labour government (theoretically committed to some form of socialism) in Britain lasted 13 years, and they fully supported the extensively privatized economy that was imposed under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, and extended by her successor in the 90s.

Even so most of them are a bit to the left of the US Democratic Party, though that probably doesn't take much doing.

Being of largely German extraction, I can attest to how German Americans during WWI were suddenly regarded with suspicion and hostility to the point where the President, Woodrow Wilson, voiced such prejudice, the use of the German language in public had been forbidden by law, and was often accompanied by violence and even murder. It was thankfully different during WWII, where despite the fact that recent German immigrants had been arrested and even deported for Nazi sympathies, there had been little question about the loyalty of German Americans with roots in this country.

I was in my home town and judging on his accent he wasn't. I continue shopping all around the town centre, I must have taken hours on it. When I'm done, a voice comes out of nowhere as I'm getting into my car and he yells 'Fenian scum' at me..

How ironic that European Germans with superiority complexes indirectly caused so many member of the German diaspora to distance themselves from their heritage.

I read somewhere that nearly 50% of white Americans have at least one German ancestor. That would be ironic if they took the one drop rule (conveniently applied to blacks) and locked up half the US population in internment camps in WWII.

When my daughter traveled in Mexico and Guatemala she said that the Mexicans told her don’t go to Guatemala you’ll get killed, then the Guatemalans said the same thing about the Mexicans.

WTF are you talking about?
First off you must have made a typo and meant "think of the other as being of an inferior race", or you meant "think of themselves as a superior race".

Second they often did view other nationalities as being inferior due to ancestry (ie its "racism").