A new RTS article showed that Swiss people haven’t become more intolerant towards people on the other side of their political spectrum in the past 20 years. I personally get the impression that in the past 4 years it’s become pretty bad and hostile, but it might just be an impression, and considering I was a student at the time.
How do you guys feel about this, and if you lived through the 80s/90s, how does it compare?
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Posted by Wonderful_Setting195
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I find Swiss people don’t talk politics much
90% of people are Neo-liberal, good integration of immigrants, rich country. It helps. Just wait until the right totally destroys the middle glass and it will quickly turn to a shit-show like France and others.
Personally I don’t think it has changed much, I have friends of totally different political persuasions than myself. Maybe that comes from living in a small place or maybe im just lucky. People who define their entire personality based on their politics (even if they 100% agree with me) are tiresome to me though
My antipathy towards the right has definitely grown lol
I mean, it’s basically the same with crime. More people feel unsafe, yet crime statistics are going down for decades now. It’s mainly due to the fact we are more susceptible to bad news and drama.
Your wording says it all. “haven’t become more intolerant” instead of “are still tolerant” for example.
If you take a step back and ignore the internet for a second, it doesn’t really seem to change much here in Switzerland.