Immigrant Minority Persecuted
Swiss anti-discrimination authorities move to protect a minority immigrant population from vicious discrimination and hate speech. Germans are being cruelly stereotyped by native Swiss as “boorish” and “domineering.” They have even been mocked as “Nazis.”
In tough economic times, some of the cheese-gobbling yodelers see the spike-topped sausage-eaters as competition and wouldn’t mind seeing the Auslanders the heck aus of Switzerland. AP here. SwissInfo here. Caricatures of the loutish, uncouth “ugly German” are circulated on the Internet. Hurtful Swiss newspaper headlines include: “The Germans are coming” and “How many Germans can Switzerland stomach?”
Good question, but I dunno. They took a powder with that neutrality figleaf back in the day, and spent decades getting rich banking for some of the world’s worst dictators while being all high and mighty about how moral they were.
With a cross-border tussle over tax havens underway, one Swiss lawmaker compared Germany’s Finance Minister to the “generation of Germans who marched through the streets in leather coats, boots and armbands.” Swiss daily Blick gleefully to print the headline “Nazi!” over the Kraut dignitary’s photo.
And deposited large amounts of Jewish cash in Zurich. If anyone ever deserved a horde of Siegfrieds and Brunhildes …
Topics: Germans, Nazis, money, racism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:08 pm on Friday, March 27, 2009
8 Responses to “Immigrant Minority Persecuted”
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March 28th, 2009 at 3:37 am
But the Swiss always seemed so reasonable.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Please try to avoid stereotyping of an entire group of people, gP.
March 28th, 2009 at 9:56 am
This is ironic. There’s been cultural and genetic (heh!) cross-over along European borders for centuries, and Switzerland is at the center of it. For example, Switzerland is a hodgepodge of European languages.
This complaining about the recent influx of Germans into Switzerland is sort of like complaining there’s chocolate in German chocolate cake.
Maybe we should rename that delicious confection “Swiss chocolate cake” to commemorate this particularly silly version of history revisionism.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Well, a lot of German chocolate cakes are made out of Swiss chocolate, you know. Much like the Nazis used Swiss corporate fronts to conduct business in the time of armbands and jackboots.
March 28th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Hang on. That would be more like a Swiss corporate cake made of Nazi chocolate.
March 28th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Nazi chocolate? You speak more rightly than you know, Jules.
Or do you mean this? (SFW, but have your speakers on…..low.)
No wonder the Swiss took all those deposits of Jewish cash back in WWII. Hitler turned chocolate, even Swiss chocolate, into an unsafe food. No doubt this is the same reason Sweden collaborated with the Nazis.
March 28th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Unaccountably, I now have a craving for chocolate. Thanks a heap, guys.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Dere iss only one possible answer to such an insult! Ve must have a duel!
As t’e offended party, I get to choose weapons - BALLONS UND BLUNDERBUSSES!
- Baron Ludwig Von Automatic, Graf Shiesskopf