Bah Bah Black Sheep

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(Q) said:
It's certainly not surprising you misunderstood the article and the campaign as you put your own bigoted stamp of hatred on it, sam.

It's got nothing to do with secularism or 'darkies' (shouldn't you get an infraction for saying that?) and everything to do with the deportation of immigrant criminals.
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And their families.

So whats with the black hand and the black sheep?
 
(Q) said:
It's about having a 'black sheep' in the family, sam. Haven't you ever heard of that metaphor?
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And the black hand that won them the election?

Are you really that dense?

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On Thursday Swiss Interior Minister Pascal Couchepin revealed that the UN special rapporteur on racism, Doudou Diène, had contacted the Swiss government seeking an explanation. Couchepin added that the government was preparing its response.

The letter, which was sent three weeks ago, was co-signed by the UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Jorge Bustamante. Earlier this year Diène published a report, castigating Switzerland for its "political climate influenced by xenophobic tendencies".
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According to Pascal Sciarini, professor of political science at Geneva University, the People's Party's recent electoral success is down to its tough line on foreigners, the European Union and the UN, and it is now a prisoner of this strategy.



"They have to keep the fires burning, and that means they have to come up with new ideas and at the same time harden their stance," he said.



Sciarini cited the initiatives against minarets and foreign criminals as evidence of the People's Party's desire to push an ever-harder line and to keep control of the immigration debate.



"They are getting more intelligent and more subtle, and are the best when it comes to marketing their policies and attracting the media's attention," he said. "They are polarising people more and more: you are either for them or very much against."

Calmy-Rey's comments came on the same day that the People's Party was ordered by a judge to remove a campaign video from its website.

Footage showed staged scenes of youth violence and pictures of foreigners juxtaposed with picture-postcard scenes of Switzerland, along with the message: "Heaven and Hell".

The ruling came after seven of the youths featured complained they had been duped into taking part.
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http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/...Sect=105&sid=8156064&cKey=1188502954000&ty=st
 
(Q) said:
It's about having a 'black sheep' in the family, sam. Haven't you ever heard of that metaphor?
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SAM can quite take care of herself, but this is disingenuous.

"Oh but we just put little lambs on the poster,
we did not even realise that the front one was black"
 
Apparently they've always been allergic to integration

http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-erlanger-s06.htm

The effort to prevent Jewish immigration was central to the Swiss authorities long before the rise of Nazism in Germany and the resultant waves of refugees who reached the Swiss borders in the 1930s and 1940s. Special regulations were enacted to prevent "foreign infiltration," making it increasingly difficult for Jews to settle in Switzerland. Instead, the aim of Swiss policy was "transmigration" or onward migration; permanent asylum was to be denied.

The transmigration policy was suspended during the war. However, most of the Jews who managed to reach Switzerland were interned to prevent them from striking roots in the country. Transmigration was resumed in 1944, and subsequent improvements in Switzerland's treatment of the refugees were made in this context. By 1954, Switzerland had succeeded in compelling almost all the Jewish refugees to leave.
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Chris Cremin said:
And why are you responding for Q? :shrug:
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I'm responding for myself. I don't have to respond for Q.
How would my statement be responding for Q, anyway?
If Sam can respond for herself, which she can, and we all know it, then there really wouldn't be any need for you to play Captain Obvious and make a statement about it, is there?

Sam said:
Apparently they've always been allergic to integration
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Doesn't Australia have pretty stringent immigration requirements too?
challenger, D&E, is there any truth to this? I've heard that it's hard to get a visa there.
 
S.A.M. said:
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I don't understand. All the hands were black? There were no others? And people equate a black sheep with black people? So when we say 'he's the black sheep of the family' we mean he is literally a black person? :confused:
 
Images can be very powerful, I bet all the "nazi-likes" there are enjoying this poster.
The two other white sheep looking in shame to ground while third kicks out the black sheep.
Just a side note.
 
Orleander said:
That's what I thought. The black sheep just meant a bad person, not a black person.
Are all the hands in the other poster black?
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Haha...however, the more I do look at that pic, the more I see how easily it could be interpreted as racist. Three white sheep kicking a black one out. :roflmao:
I almost could guarantee that if a billboard/ad like that was posted in the U.S. civil rights activists would go ape shit; regardless of the intention.
 
mikenostic said:
Haha...however, the more I do look at that pic, the more I see how easily it could be interpreted as racist. Three white sheep kicking a black one out. :roflmao:
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lolol

I always took it as......you are the odd one out..like the weirdo in the family or something. I never thought of its a actually "black"
 
It was, originally, (because so few sheep were black), but the PC crowd here in the UK have now got school kids singing "Baa Baa Green Sheep".
(And they can't sing the words "one for the master" any more either...)
 
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