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> The SVP is a very strong party in Switzerland. It is not a stretch to call it xenophobic. It is for anyone outside of Twitter and I say this as an immigrant

> The SVP is a very strong party in Switzerland. It is not a stretch to call it xenophobic. It is for anyone outside of Twitter and I say this as an immigrant but the extent to which people use the word “xenophobic” is ridiculous.

pell 6y ago
The SVP was considered a xenophobic party a long time before Twitter existed. Here's an article from 2000 about the referendum on the migrant quota. You can read about the SVP's initiative and reaction here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/18-prozent-initiative-deutlich-abgelehnt/1673558 https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/18-prozent-initiative-deutlich-... Here's another article from 2000 comparing different right-wing parties in Western Europe (including the SVP) and also mentioning xenophobia as part of their make-up: https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1243322 https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1243322 Here's an article from 2002 about then SVP-president Oskar Freysinger and his infamous poetry. Please read what he wrote and explain how it's not xenophobic: https://www.nzz.ch/article8J5AD-1.443107 https://www.nzz.ch/article8J5AD-1.443107 Here's an article from 1999 about a thank-you letter written by SVP-cantonal president Christoph Blocher to the holocaust-denier Jürgen Graf: https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/nachrichten/vermischtes/kontroverse-um-blocher-brief https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/nachrichten/vermischtes/kontro... It really doesn't take a lot of digging to understand what the SVP stands for. I mean today their initiative for a ban on burqas/niqab went through with 52% of the vote despite there only being around 20-30 burqa/niqab wearers in all of Switzerland. I often do see this take that whatever Twitter might currently be mad at is supposedly a hysterical view on things, yet it seems this automatic opposite view is never seen for the hyperbole it is.

pell 6y ago

The SVP was considered a xenophobic party a long time before Twitter existed. Here's an article from 2000 about the referendum on the migrant quota. You can read about the SVP's initiative and reaction here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/18-prozent-initiative-deutlich-abgelehnt/1673558 https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/18-prozent-initiative-deutlich-... Here's another article from 2000 comparing different right-wing parties in Western Europe (including the SVP) and also mentioning xenophobia as part of their make-up: https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1243322 https://monde-diplomatique.de/artikel/!1243322 Here's an article from 2002 about then SVP-president Oskar Freysinger and his infamous poetry. Please read what he wrote and explain how it's not xenophobic: https://www.nzz.ch/article8J5AD-1.443107 https://www.nzz.ch/article8J5AD-1.443107 Here's an article from 1999 about a thank-you letter written by SVP-cantonal president Christoph Blocher to the holocaust-denier Jürgen Graf: https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/nachrichten/vermischtes/kontroverse-um-blocher-brief https://www.bielertagblatt.ch/nachrichten/vermischtes/kontro... It really doesn't take a lot of digging to understand what the SVP stands for. I mean today their initiative for a ban on burqas/niqab went through with 52% of the vote despite there only being around 20-30 burqa/niqab wearers in all of Switzerland. I often do see this take that whatever Twitter might currently be mad at is supposedly a hysterical view on things, yet it seems this automatic opposite view is never seen for the hyperbole it is.