It was the sixites and seventies, like Vietnam, you weren't there, you don't know!
Why did Daniel Cohn-Bendit say this?
This episode has been fairly widely known for ages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Cohn-Bendit
"Cohn-Bendit acknowledged that the passage had been carelessly written and recognized it as inappropriate. He asked for the text to be understood in the context of the sexual revolution of the 1970s and the provocations of the time. No former parent or child from Frankfurt Kindergarten expressed any complaint, and a group was even formed in his defence."
Still, really weird though ...
Quote:
this kind of shit flies in France?
It's an established spectator sport in Belgium. In retrospect, I bet Danny wishes he had exclaimed “Get your hands off my zipper you little slut!, you’ll get me nicked!”…
FT wrote:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/9f16699c-d5e6-11db-99b7-000b5df10621.html
”In those times a lot of people, including me, wrote some foolish things. Provocation was an ideology.” He says nobody batted an eyelid when the book came out, and it should be seen as ”a crazy sign of the times”. The storm, which might have finished some politicians, blew over. Parents of the kindergarten mounted a campaign in his defence. He seems almost to embrace the affair as having added just another stratum to his multi-layered life.”You have to stand by your history,” he says.
From his 1976 book ‘’Le grand bazar’’.