Bob Dylan Charged With Inciting Hate

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/03/bob-dylan-charged-with-inciting-hate-under-french-law/?hp&_r=1

December 3, 2013, 11:42 am
Bob Dylan Charged With ‘Inciting Hate’ Under French Law
By ALLAN KOZINN

To people who follow the pronouncements of Bob Dylan, his comment in a Rolling Stone interview in September 2012 suggesting that American blacks could sense whether whites had slave-master blood “just like Jews can sense Nazi blood and the Serbs can sense Croatian blood” may have seemed just the sort of vaporously impressionistic, emotionally pointed kind of thing that Mr. Dylan has been known to say for decades.

But to the Representative Council of the Croatian Community and Institutions in France, an organization that looks after the interests of France’s 30,000 Croatians, those were fighting words. Now they have led to Mr. Dylan, who built his early career singing songs that denounced racism, being charged under a French law prohibiting “public insult and inciting hate.”...

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1. Did he REALLY say something so unfathomably stupid?

[roody]

2. Well he did do an Escalade commercial

a few years back.