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Right-wing Swiss party draws fire for anti-immigration ad featuring naked women
By Ben ReiningaNovember 19th, 2010, 4:30 pmComments (16)
Right-wing Swiss party, the Swiss People's Party, has released a series of controversial new, anti-immigration ads. The two-part ads show a photo of beautiful, naked, white women walking into a pristine lake, followed by an image of old women wearing head scarves bathing in filthy water. Presumably, they're a warning about the horrors that come with a more open immigration policy.
The ads come as Switzerland prepares to vote on whether illegal immigrants who commit crimes should be expelled from the country. In a notoriously xenophobic (and racially homogeneous) nation, the ads are also a reminder of the struggles many Western European nations have faced with immigration -- especially by Middle Eastern and Muslim people.
It seems uncouth to remark that the first photo -- heinous racial undertones aside -- is kind of hot. But I said it anyway.
Commentarium (16 Comments)
It's also symbolic because the number four: four national languages.
Yeah, whatever. It's a fact that muslim immigrants are increasingly causing trouble in Europe. Attacks on Jews and gays are up, and it's not from right wing nationalists.
Europeans are so holier-than-thou about the U.S. and our racial problems. Now they have to deal with a multiracial society, and they are not coping very well.
I vote for the top picture.
A fact, moops? Cite your sources. Actually, most of the antisemitic groups on the rise in Europe are the same old groups we've always had. Europeans are indeed holier than thou, but you can't trust American news on anything. Just saying.
@EBE Four? French, German, Italian and ???
So, immigrants aren't dirty? Oh.
So...if the immigrants come in, naked beautiful women won't be allowed to swim in water...And elderly foreigners will make the water dirtier? Wtf?
maybe if you were to bath in the second picture water, you would prefer to keep on your clothes.
because of dirty water, keep on your clothes
and NOT
keeping your clothes makes water dirty
@GeeBee: EBE is right, the four languages are German, French, Italian and Romansh.
I can see vaginas through the bottom, tee hee!
I think the person in the bottom right corner is Terry Jones from Monty Python.
jj: Damn you!!! Now all I can hear in my head when I look at that picture is "Hello, Curry's? I'd like to try one of your thirteen-and-sixpenny brains please..."
Heinous racial undertones — why, because they're white? It's official, brown countries can raise whatever immigration barriers they wish, and white countries can not. Because. They're white. Please.
Yup, that slohud defo do the trick!
What an aewsmoe way to explain this-now I know everything!