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(Jewish Group) How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank -- why a fringe group declared war....
How could anyone ever hate Anne Frank — why a fringe group declared war on the Holocaust’s most famous victimAnne 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.
But whatever Black Hammer’s bona fides, its tweets mark something of a new paradigm in the complex history of Anne Frank across American popular culture, education and political debates. While Anne herself was in no way a colonizer, the fact that school systems, museums and public figures so often prioritize her narrative over those of people of color is troubling.
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So, when reading this, I realized I recognized the name of the asshole Gazi Kodzo. I was right, it was from another article:
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Anne Frank is being called a ‘Becky’. But here’s what that tweet got right
Last week, a tweet about Anne Frank — the beloved memoirist of “The Diary of Anne Frank” through which most American children learn about the Holocaust — went viral. The tweet referred to Anne Frank as a “Becky” and lamented the lack of education in America about genocides besides the Holocaust. A “Becky” is a term with roots in African American Vernacular English that’s shorthand for a woman, generally white, who is not politically conscious, holds unexamined racist views, and has very generic materialist interests.
“Anne Frank! As a Black Child in america all through school I was propagandized to mourn a BECKY,” read the now-deleted tweet. “I wasn’t told about the COUNTLESS Black…and Indigenous girls america GENOCIDED! Palestinian girls that israel is killing through GENOCIDE right now!”
The tweet was bemoaning the fact that its author was expected to sympathize with a white victim of genocide, as opposed to other, more worthy victims. It went viral before it was deleted and the account that posted it was suspended, mostly due to people sharing it with derision and mockery, though some also defended the tweet on the grounds that “the Shoah is given more historical weight than other genocides” because Ashkenazi Jews are white.
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Last week, a tweet about Anne Frank — the beloved memoirist of “The Diary of Anne Frank” through which most American children learn about the Holocaust — went viral. The tweet referred to Anne Frank as a “Becky” and lamented the lack of education in America about genocides besides the Holocaust. A “Becky” is a term with roots in African American Vernacular English that’s shorthand for a woman, generally white, who is not politically conscious, holds unexamined racist views, and has very generic materialist interests.
“Anne Frank! As a Black Child in america all through school I was propagandized to mourn a BECKY,” read the now-deleted tweet. “I wasn’t told about the COUNTLESS Black…and Indigenous girls america GENOCIDED! Palestinian girls that israel is killing through GENOCIDE right now!”
The tweet was bemoaning the fact that its author was expected to sympathize with a white victim of genocide, as opposed to other, more worthy victims. It went viral before it was deleted and the account that posted it was suspended, mostly due to people sharing it with derision and mockery, though some also defended the tweet on the grounds that “the Shoah is given more historical weight than other genocides” because Ashkenazi Jews are white.
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Just a reminder that anti-Semitic bigots are all around us!
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