Round-up

1. The Swiss government says that while racism is unacceptable, it stands by freedom of speech. This comes in response to the controversial "black sheep" campaign by the "rightwing" Swiss People's Party, which calls for foreign criminals to be expelled from the country. It is not clear to me, however, how this is remotely racist in the first place. They didn't call for all FOREIGNERS to be deported, only foreign CRIMINALS.

2. This is a sensible and level-headed post by a blogger who describes herself as "a short Asian girl" on the subject of unintentional racism. I don't agree with the author's label of racism for the case she describes, but it is good to see that she advocates NOT being offended by every little thing that appears racist and that actually racism is "not necessarily bad". Interesting stuff.