Posted on 08/08/2018 5:54:17 AM PDT by SJackson
Holocaust victim's legacy is misappropriated by deranged leftists.
A new leftist politics-tainted theatrical production of The Diary of Anne Frank in Los Angeles outrageously compares the Trump administration to the German Nazi regime by replacing Nazis hunting for Jews with ICE agents tracking down Latino illegal aliens.
Although the play is set to open Sept. 6 in Los Angeles, the comparison between Anne Frank and illegal aliens in the United States is beyond farfetched.
Illegal aliens enter the U.S. without permission. They are, legally speaking, the authors of their own misfortune. Nonetheless, efforts to apprehend them are not persecutory, and when they are caught, they are not persecuted. They are treated humanely at all times. They are given a hearing and due process. If they are found to be present unlawfully in the country, they are removed from it, not sent to forced labor camps of death camps.
Apart from trivializing the deaths of six million Jews and many others under Adolph Hitler’s Nazi regime, the play treats those who enforce our nation’s immigration laws as monstrous genocidal brutes and absurdly equates the idea of maintaining national borders with violent governmental persecution. It is a theatrical manifestation of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
In the original version of the real-life story, 13-year-old Anne Frank describes her life in her diary after her family hides in an attic in Amsterdam during the 1940-45 Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The Frank family avoids the Nazis from July 1942 to August 1944 when they are eventually discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a death camp that only Anne’s father, Otto, survives.
The new production comes after CNN published an op-in March by Kyung Lah and Alberto Moya titled “Inside a safe house, hiding from ICE.” The writers argued that deporting illegal aliens was somehow similar to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
The new interpretation of the play depicts Latino illegals hiding from the supposedly Nazi-like officials of the U.S. Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE). Prominent Democrat lawmakers have joined forces with the anti-American activists of Antifa to demand that ICE, which does not have a reputation for police brutality, be abolished.
But to anarchists, any notion of laws and national borders is state-sanctioned violence in and of itself.
The real goal is to rid America of immigration law enforcement altogether. Breitbart News reports:
The production, directed by former Roseanne writer Stan Zimmerman and scheduled to run throughout September, “was inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who created a ‘Safe House’ for a Latina mother and her two daughters after her husband was deported by ICE.” The play’s characters in the attic will be played by a LatinX cast, according to a promotional website.
“We are not changing the Nazi characters to ICE agents in our upcoming production of 'The Diary of Anne Frank,'" producer Anne Kathryn Parma explained. “This will be a word-for-word presentation of the 1997 Broadway script [of the original play]. We are, however, re-imagining the setting with LatinX families reading the play from their Safe House. This new staging was inspired by the true story of a Jewish woman in Los Angeles.”
And in case you were wondering, Latinxis a politically correct neologism, “a gender-neutral word for people of Latin American descent,” according to Merriam-Webster.
“Latinx purposefully breaks with Spanish's gendered grammatical tradition. X signifies something unknown and is used in Latinx to connote unspecified gender. A similar use of "x" is in Mx., a gender-neutral title of courtesy that is used in place of gendered titles, such as Mr. and Ms. It has been suggested that the use of "x" in Mx. influenced Latinx.”
Assaults on The Diary of Anne Frank are, unfortunately, nothing new.
As Daniel Greenfield notes, this so-called reimagining of the play “accomplishes the final de-Judaization of Anne Frank leaving the story truly Judenrein.” Judenrein a German Nazi-era word meaning“cleansed [or free] of Jews.”
At the urging of Communist playwright Lillian Hellman, the original Broadway version of the play worked hard to strip Frank of her Jewishness.
Then there is the dubious Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, a business name used by the Anne Frank Center USA Inc. The nonprofit claims that Anne's father, Otto, "founded our organization as the Anne Frank Foundation," an assertion disputed by plenty of critics.
Since Donald Trump became president, the Anne Frank Center has become a hotbed of leftist resistance. Instead of respecting Anne Frank’s legacy, the group, led by partisan Democrat hack Steven Goldstein, absurdly calls the victim of Nazi crimes “one of the greatest feminist and social justice leaders in history.”
The Left has been growing increasingly unhinged as its supporters find themselves unable to oust the duly elected 45thpresident of the United States from the White House. As has been the case with every Republican president in recent decades, left-wingers have likened Donald Trump to Hitler and GOPers to Nazis. But the intensity of leftist hatred against Trump seems to outdo the visceral hatred the Left expressed against George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush.
This is just beginning.
Brace yourself for another two or six years of Trump-is-Hitler propaganda.
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At least they're leaving Anne female. Given the state of education in the US, should the play become a hit movie, polls would show that most of those who knew who she was think she's Latina.
ALL plays, movies and TV shows are created to promote an agenda. The story line is designed to pull you in, and to get you to willingly suspend your disbelief. With your critical thinking put aside, the producers slip their message into your relaxed mind.
There is no entertainment. It’s all propaganda.
The real Ann Frank would have WANTED to be deported to a place like Mexico.
The real Anne Frank would have WANTED to be deported to a place like Mexico.
I want the libtard progressive left to keep digging that hole for themselves deeper and deeper and deeper......
It’s sad that an icon of a hunted, murdered Jewish girl from WWII can be so twisted, exploited and abused in order to serve a current political agenda. The world likes to transfer Jewish victim-hood to, say the Palestinians or any other currently perceived underdog.
Gotta admit, the RATS find new and more creative ways of hitting a new low.
Surprised they haven’t re-cast Anne as a Mexican transgender.
Interestingly it can’t be used to point out Islamic antisemitism.
That is absurd. There is no way ALL entertainment is propaganda (though much of it is). What was the agenda of "The Beverly Hillbillies"?
Right; because an agency that actually does the job they were created and mandated to do is somehow bad in the mind of the brain-damaged leftists.
I suppose we shouldn’t expect anything else from the left these days...
I doubt I’m alone in thinking leftists act like toddlers more often than adult-like.
So true. Give 'em time. They seem to think the more ridiculous and outlandish they are; the more entertaining. While that may be true in fictional stories; not really on stories based on real history.
You’d of thought that they would of used a black girl to play the part just like they did in “Annie”
Why is she latin-o? Why isn’t she a syrian muslim?
This reimagining of the story of Anne Frank ignored the diversity of nations coming across our southern border.
Does she still die in captivity?
How many kids in these centers have died?
Offensive on so many levels
The Left is taking the governors off the propaganda machine. Remember: all ICE is doing is ENFORCING THE LAWS our Congress — the People’s representatives — duly and properly enacted.
This hysterical propaganda drive doesn’t seek to change immigration law. It advocates ignoring the will of the people — and the rule of law — entirely.
It is anarchy of the minority.
Emotion,emotion, and more emotion.
Emotion is a big part of the Democrat party and liberalism. Everything they say, promote and make decisions about is based on and clouded by emotion. Especially the emotion de jour of the moment
Where are all the outraged Jews?
Pathetic how they willfully desecrate Anne Frank’s memory for this BS. Time to get these pricks out of the country.
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