A group of prominent Black and migrant-background comedians in Switzerland are openly challenging expectations that they conform to progressive anti-racism narratives, saying the pressure to perform victimhood is itself a form of paternalism. Rash Junior, who migrated from Cameroon at age 14 and became one of Switzerland's most popular social media influencers, said in a podcast that "the left causes us Black people more problems — they pretend to want to help us, but they always make us victims." He and fellow stand-up comedian Kiko (Frank Cabrera Hernandez), originally from the Dominican Republic, both say their relationships with public broadcaster SRF cooled sharply after they deviated from expected positions on race — Kiko notably after a 2020 appearance on political talk show "Arena" (a flagship Swiss public-television debate programme) where he argued that racism in Switzerland was being exaggerated and that local Black Lives Matter comparisons to the United States were hypocritical. Comedian and multilingual entertainer Hamza Raya, from a Lebanese-Iraqi refugee family, has similarly stated he feels "far more threatened as a comedian by the left than by the right," pointing to cases where sponsors withdrew from migrant influencers under activist pressure as evidence of a chilling conformity enforced not by conservatives, but by progressive circles.