(Jewish Group) How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank -- why a fringe group declared war on her

[Behind the Aegis]

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

Author’s note: In the past few weeks, Anne Frank has been trending online again. This time, some users are saying Anne Frank benefited from white privilege. Arguments include the claim that she would have been worse off as a Black woman under the Nazi regime, that she would not have had access to the Annex as a Black woman and even that she did not face racism. Of course, while Jews are often considered white in today’s landscape, during World War II, Jews of any skin color were considered a separate, nonwhite race. The Forward is republishing this article from September 13, 2021 about a similar Anne Frank discourse that examines the social and historical forces that so often collide to boost Anne to the top of Twitter’s trending lists.

Anne Frank trending on Twitter is rarely a good thing. From January to May this year, Black Hammer, which calls itself a “revolutionary organization” working for “all colonized people worldwide,” tweeted monthly statements condemning the most famous victim of the Holocaust as a “colonizer” and a “bleach demon.” In one video, Gazi Kodzo, the founder of the organization, says “Anne Frank is white, and white equals colonizer.” He later calls her a “parasite.” Another post features a photo of “The Diary of a Young Girl” next to a fire, implying it will be burned.

Most responses on Twitter adamantly objected, asking how a child who died at the hands of the Nazis could be an oppressor. But multiple Black Hammer-affiliated accounts, including the main account and regional chapters, doubled down, insisting that Anne Frank “benefitted from the looting of stolen land,” colonialism and slavery by virtue of living in Europe, and that “Anne Frank is literally amerikan propaganda used to silence colonized people on the harm yt jews are doing today to colonized people.” (The spelling errors were theirs.)

Black Hammer has not tweeted about Anne since May, and the group began to publicly hemorrhage members in early August, after Kevin Rashid Johnson of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party accused the organization of being an undercover right-wing group trying to sow division within leftist movements.



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Saying Frank benefited from white privilege demonstrates two fucking things, pure bigotry and incredible ignorance. Of course, it also demonstrates just how much some REALLY hate the Jews!

[reymega life]

1. there cowardly and scared because they are into evil

[question everything]

3. There were always people full of hate, irrational, but they were in the fringe

Now, thanks to social media it spreads.