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How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank — why a fringe group declared war on the Holocaust’s most famous victim

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores the controversial discourse surrounding Anne Frank's portrayal in contemporary American culture, influenced by comments from the now-disbanded group Black Hammer. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish IdentityAnne FrankEducationCultural RepresentationRacismNarrative SimplificationBlack HammerHistorical Misinterpretation

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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
"The atrocities committed against African Americans are layered onto the genocide of Native peoples in America and thats then layered upon the suffering of Palestinians, and that becomes one kind of political bloc, she said."
Germany
"But Anne may have first become white far before Ashkenazi Jews more generally assimilated. Her Jewishness, and even her hatred for her German oppressors, was downplayed by her father and the writers who adapted her diary to the stage and screen."
Colorado, United States
"Beyond the Anne Frank tweets, the group also attracted widespread ridicule on Twitter when they claimed to have bought a large parcel of rocky-looking land in Colorado where they were building a city for all colonized people, no white people allowed."
Belgium
"Why do we learn about Hitler in high school, but not King Leopold II of Belgium, who colonized huge swathes of Africa, or the United Fruit Companys banana republics in South America?"
Palestinian Territories
"What differentiates Anne from a Syrian child? Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist, asked in 2016. (His conclusion: not much.)"
Afghanistan
"But in the history of American racism, the story is flipped. This worries the critics of curricula such the New York Times 1619 Project, which centers the narrative of American history on slavery and racism."

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