Translation: The president of the SVP wants to expel any foreigners who commit a crime in Switzerland. These foreigners he calls black sheep ( Schwarze Schafe). What sort of a stupid racist attack is that?
Parteipräsient Toni Brunner. "Wir wollen, dass die schwarzen Schafe endlich ausgeschafft werden." Die SVP greift denn auch erneut auf das Schafe-Plakat zurück, das vor den letzten Wahlen Diskussionen ausgelöst hatte. Damals sammelte die SVP Unterschriften für die erste Ausschaffungsinitiative.
Translation, please.
The black ones...
And come on man...we have enough threads on this already...search for "expulsion initiative"
That might be so but the statement is from today.
True but I think "everyone" knows about SVP and the thing they have with sheep. So, moot point IMO.
Yes maybe Brunner thinks of himself as a Shepherd
Why don't EF forum members who are fed up of racism got together and tried to change things politically. Switzerland is a free country-you have the right to free speech and public demonstration. there is an organization that you can join- I already provided links. Otherwise you can form your own.
We've had a lot of these too.
Im wasn't aware that criminals were a race.
I wasn't aware that foreigners were a race.
I wasn't aware that criminal foreigners were a race.
So if I'm against racism, why should I be against expelling criminal foreigners?
Or is it just that everything we don't like is automatically racist?
I think if the EFers formed their own political party it would just make it easier for SVP to herd us all up (and out on the next cargo train).
wasn't this last year's initiative which BTW has been discussed ad nauseum in the EF?
Really? I can't remember that.
I think its obvious that Brunner is indirectly pointing his finger at dark skinned people.
Switzerland paying some expats loads of money doesn't mean we close our eyes and shut up our mouths on obvious racism, some people need to be objective a bit and forget about their bank accounts.
Criminals foreigners expelled ....Yes.
Calling a someone black is totally different story.
For me, it's one word....screw the SVP and everyone supporting them big time and i don't really mind packing and leaving immediately now if this is what Switzerland is
Nonsense, it's just an expression, as it is in English.
Tom
Are you blind- have you seen the posters? How much clearer can that be?
I am absolutely sure you are not that naive.
En Suisse, l'UDC affiche son racisme sans complexe
Then you don't understand the " psychology " of the SVP campaign.
Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but we had a vote here last year and Brunner's argument is aimed at Bundesrat Sommaruga's seeming inability to initiate the legal process in writing the articles into law.
Sorry, no need to debate this again here, nothing to see, let's all move on and keep a smile. It's Swiss democracy working.
If you'd care to read the SVP's gripe, it's here .
The issue is whether one chooses to feed it though.
Ignore it and it's as good as dead then they have to spend more time and money trying to figure out the next fire-cracker of a campaign to outrage these people .
This image is truly shocking...the overtones of racism are not even a little subtle. Even if "black sheep" is an expression, no one can ignore the visual impact of such a display.