The presence of immigrants and refugees in Western nation-states challenges symbolic national boundaries and is perceived as a threat to the dominant majorities. In this context, hate speech is reinforced in the form of both violent racist (speech) acts (hard hate speech) and –mostly– mitigated rejection and covert discriminatory practices (soft hate speech). In both cases hate speech draws on and simultaneously entrenches national discourse, aiming at representing the nation as a linguistically and culturally homogeneous entity. Studies concentrating on hate speech usually investigate public discourse produced by adults. The present study explores the reproduction of (soft) hate speech among immigrant students in the Greek educational context and the ways in which national discourse is reinforced among them. Adopting a Critical Discourse Studies perspective, we employ analytical tools from the Discursive-Historical Approach, allowing us to identify how specific discursive strategies contribute to the reproduction of soft hate speech, which seems to draw on national discourse in the form of either racist discourse or humanitarian discourse.