SBB: Censorship for Nazi Poster of the Young Greens
The Young Greens' poster campaigns have often been criticized for lacking substance. Now, the youth wing has designed a sensational poster that the SBB has refused to approve.
The poster showed a bald neo-Nazi tattooed with a swastika from behind. The subject is underlaid with the slogan: "He votes. You too?". This writes the NZZ on Monday. The poster should hang from Monday in the Zurich main station. As the Young Greens announced on Sunday, the SBB refused its consent. Now, instead of the neo-Nazi subject hangs a poster that shows a stylized black and white Hitler silhouette.
SBB spokesman Renzo Cicillini justified the rejection of the subject with the fact that the sketched moustache is significantly less aggressive than the real photo with the swastika and the SS logo, as 20 Minuten am Sonntag writes. The question of whether a poster violates morality and decency will be examined on a case-by-case basis. The SVP's minaret poster, for example, is only displayed by the SBB in cities without a posting ban.
The SBB's justification that the poster could hurt the feelings of its customers sounds like "double standards" to Alma Redzic, president of the Young Greens, according to 20 Minuten. With the SVP's minaret poster, this apparently would not have played a role. For the Young Greens, it is therefore still perceived as censorship, Redzic said.
