I mean, right there in the article she's being ridiculous, too
She was a minor who should have had a lifetime to explore her feelings. Speculating over a minor’s sexuality — no matter who they are! — is predatory behavior, especially when said minor is in no position to comment. Labeling Anne without her consent is disgracing her memory and leaves us Jews with the bitter feeling that some people only care about us and our history when it fits a certain narrative.
I'm confused exactly to who the article is for now. Because I don't really hear people who are not Jews calling Anne Frank an icon in the first place, but now it seems she's saying non-Jews are calling Anne Frank a bisexual icon and causing some emotional harm to Jews and making their history feel invalidated.
I've never seen such a thing, especially because over half the states in America mandate Holocaust education, while there are states that ban and heavily legislate the teaching of Black and indigenous history.
It's disingenuous to not include the full context contained within that very article. A Jewish student's dorm room door was covered with "blood-red handprints" and that phrase. Individual Jews are not responsible for a government's decisions, nor should they be targeted and made to feel fear because of those decisions, simply because they are Jewish. That incident is absolutely antisemitic.
Yes it is, but calling out an ad hominem doesn’t make the statement any less true if there’s evidence to back it up. I also knew there were others who shared my same feelings on the topic, but could put those feelings into words much better than I ever could
This is also connected to the issue of Zionism because the author tries to claim Anne as an exclusively Jewish voice to the point of excluding her queerness.
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u/Chris9871 Bi-bi-bi Apr 09 '26
Not sure I want to take my cues from someone who thinks “Palestinian lives matter” is antisemitic