It's nasty.
kodokan
As I said in another thread about Swiss schools, just look at the way Swiss adults behave and you'll get a pretty good idea about what their schools are like.
follow what you say, and you will not tolerate dissent from your opinion.
We'll soon discover that it is some leftist party, charity instiution etc. who actually opposes the viewpoint of the posters, but printed them just to deliberately spark a discussion. I think most if not all Swiss instinctively knew that, but the message was completely missinterpreted here. It's by the way an old tactic of Swiss socialists to take the perceived opinion of their political enemies to an extreme to show "where all this is leading".
I could probably show you a couple of examples of this kind of argumentation.
Swiss dark sarcasm without the slightest hint of humour..
Some background information for those who speak either German, French or Italian:
in german again, but it is a IV campaign...check pics for the add-ons...
Well, I'd suggest they cut down a bit on their advertising budget since they got such a huge debt....
Some things should just not be permitted to be printed/advertised/posted. If this is the Swiss idea of humour then it is a sick sense of humour.
I only hope that person(s) behind this sick campaign(?) fall victim to the idea they are trying to stop. Call it cruel but its usually referred to as Poetic Justice.
Are you the Capt. Jack who flew from Torchwood ? (joke)
Quite right, but what has all this to do with "Swiss humour" or "Swiss idea of humour" ? The IV to me NEVER has appeared to be a nest of "Scherzkekse" and their intention was not to make good jokes. They were illguided and resorted to a lousy and detestable style. But the IV is a serious institution nevertheless and not a cabaret.
I don't think this campaign is against handicapped people but against those who fake it and those who don't put enough controls.
Silly indeed, and genuinly offended some people... so ffs IV concentrate on what you should be doing, provide for those who need our help and filter out those who want to cheat into it, and stop wasting the publics money in such a stupid way!!
And this means that those at IV not only reveal lousy taste, but also regard themselves as too important. Reality is that the majority of people will NOT get into information about the problem as they hope, reality is that no architect just on the basis of this will make his buildings accessible for the handicapped, that no municipal administration will work to make trottoirs and roads easier for the handicapped. I would say that the campaign is in the field of "overkill actions" .
Because I believe this is what this is about. The approach seems to be ineffective/wrong, but there is still a lot to be done in this field... at least I think so.
We're currently discussing technicalities on how to refinance, how to prevent abuse, how to tackle reintegration into work etc... no Swiss in his right mind (the majority, surprisingly for many of you I guess ) would even care to seriously debate if or why we need IV for the disabled...
Wow. It is scary. I really think the debate is provoked in the most disgusting manner and I hope handicaped people can raise their voice against this.
What about the people that will take the posters as a "rule" to follow? The brains that are made to just stick to the rules can easily adopt the least sophisticated, black and white, offensive and downright wrong assumptions? The thought behind it that matters might not even get to people. The company who created this is so focused on their intentions, it is just so unprofessional and redneck.
I realized some public campaigning is weird here when I sat in some waiting room few years back pregnant and there was a huge poster for some financial advisory service, and it pictured depressed pregnant couple, a dark skin young person and sad old person with humongous sentence "If you happen to be one of these, contact us". I was pisSed that they fed this stereotype to people - of wrong financial moves of the preggos, foreign or old. Bad public image.
When we lived in the sticks we had a family of disabled individuals who were clearly abusing the system, living right above us throwing wild alcoholic orgies. They should have been cought, etc. But, if this campaign catches the few that abuse the system but the whole image of handicaped gets portrayed as the lazy bastids milking the system, more damage is done than the possible positive outcome of such debate. I have met so many folks thinking in stereotypes here, affecting negatively foreigners, women, etc.
Sorry I am jumping in late, I didn't even have time to read the whole thread. I really appreciated the info on the background though, that is hard to reach for us here.
Ok. Rant's over.