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Eric Clapton Tried To Donate 'Way Over' Legal Limit To RFK Jr.'s Campaign: Report (www.huffpost.com)
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The guitarist, who is British, previously railed against COVID-19 vaccine mandates on a podcast with the U.S. presidential candidate and conspiracy theorist.

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[–] Naich@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's always been an arsehole.

[–] Madison_rogue@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

So does Clapton still agree with what he said? “My feeling about this hasn’t changed, really,” he insists. “Years later, when I played at the Mandela concert, one of the promoters said: ‘You know that this is your chance to apologise formally for what you said.’ And I thought: ‘You must be fucking joking.’ I was so insulted.”

~ Clapton, 2004 interview regarding a 1988 concert for Nelson Mandela

Oh.my.god. He was insulted? This literally made me say "oh my god" out loud. I didn't even know about all this growing up in the 80's and then listening to him later on in the 90's.

The original article this quote was taken from for Snopes continues:

This sound of heels being firmly dug in is typical Clapton. Though he is clearly not a racist, he is amazingly stubborn. The remark caused huge offence, but he still cannot bring himself to apologise.

"Clearly not racist." Come on.