Posted on 09/20/2025 12:35:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Italian rapper Fedez has apologized for publishing music lyrics saying that tennis player Jannik Sinner speaks with "Adolf Hitler's accent," which prompted the musician to be accused of inciting racial hatred. Fedez recently posted an Instagram story featuring lyrics of a new song that said in Italian: "Italian has a new idol named Jannik Sinner. Pure-blooded Italian with Adolf Hitler's accent."
A city council member in Bolzano -- the capital of the German-speaking autonomous province of Alto Adige in northern Italy where Sinner is from -- on Thursday filed a formal complaint with prosecutors over Fedez's lyrics based on an article in Italy's penal code that sanctions incitement of racial hatred and propaganda. "I wanted to take a paradox and it came off terribly, about athletes who are born and raised in Italy but often are not considered Italian due to the color of their skin and apply it to Italy's top athlete," Fedez said during a concert in Milan on Friday, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport.
"I wasn't able to pull it off and all I can do is apologize," Fedez added. "If something like this isn't understood, it's because of a mistake made by whoever wrote it. So I take responsibility."
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Ah, I think I see the problem. Fedez should have said that Sinner speaks with Mussolini’s pal’s accent.
The mention of Hitler sets everyone off. But most folks just see Mussolini as a pompous ass.
(Two pompous asses there. Mussolini is on the left.)
Did funny mustache guy speak with an accent other than German?
Freedom of speech. Boycott him if you disagree. Call his advertisers.
Folks disagree with me about child murder by parents. I require that right to speak by God alone. Nothing is more vile than aborting innocent own children.
Apologize for being wrong and harming or don’t apologize.
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