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.
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.”
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If actual Nazis took over the Anne Frank Center, they could not do a better job of destroying her memory than these Leftists.
Push the narrative rather than the truth.
To demonstrate the myth of the “noble savage.” The simple but wholesome bumpkin Clampetts served as contrasts to the venial, scheming urbanites embodied in people like Milburn and Mrs. Drysdale.
It’s no coincidence that, even as successful as it was, “Hillbillies” was cancelled in the “decountryfication purge” that also saw the end of shows like “Green Acres” and “Andy Griffith.” (And many successful westerns as well.)
All those shows presented a strong, positive view of the heart of America. They had to go if Hollywood was going to start twisting minds and destroying our heritage.
Why?
Interesting take on those 60’s TV shows. Much like Mark Twain’s Huck Finn character. An observer without an agenda who saw society’s foibles as they are. As you say, the noble savage.
Hogan's Heroes was a casualty of that purge as well. The network of Edward R. Murrow could not be associated with such "lowbrow entertainment".
At least they are not being called “jack-booted thugs.”
Remember when former-President George H. Bush disavowed the NRA (was a life member) because someone used that term to describe some zealot federal employees?
It was 1995 when Republican leaders were all too glad to hurt our side in an attempt to ingratiate themselves with the left.
What? Liberals re-writing history? I am shocked. shocked, I tell you.
The idiots have no idea how they are trivializing Hitler’s pogrom of the Jews and other “untermenschen,” because they haven’t bothered to read WWII history, much less, pre-WWII-war German history. Or better yet, post WWI, to learn how Hitler became the nastiness that he was.
May all those “scriptwriters” be stricken with ME... (worse than death, one suffers for a lifetime.)
:Oh. wait. Did I just put a curse on those people? Oops:
‘Face
And here I thought Hogan’s Heroes was a victim of Bob’s peccadilloes.
As for the propaganda effect of TV, it’s there, and it’s why the rural purge occurred. Can’t have those hick programs portraying hicks in a positive light. Have to get rid of them so that we can portray the joys of ‘successful’ urban lifestyles. Out with the Clampetts, in with the Mary Tyler Moores (childless singles) and Murphy Browns (you know where that went)...
That didn't come out until after Hogan was canceled, and Bob was reduced to traveling around the country doing dinner theater (among other activities varied and sundry).
I love Hogan's Heroes. Bought the complete series DVD. Still cracks me up. Bob Crane's Hogan is the most insouciant character since Bugs Bunny.
The agenda was situational ethics.
Usual backward logic of leftards and their sheep :
The NAZIS were the illegal aliens in Holland who were seeking jews (citizens) to send to their deaths.
Drowning in a bucket of their own excerement would be poetic justice for these enemies of freedom.
The Nazis used relocation to the east as a cover for the Holocaust. In so far as this play helps Holocaust deniers it is Holocaust Denial
Disgusting. Absolutely insulting to my murdered ancestors. They were legal multi generation German citizens, successful, contributing, with only their religion targeted.
They were locked up and murdered. Actually, they were officially “exterminated” like insects.
How dare this play make them compare to illegal aliens being served with deserved police action?
Where are all the outraged Jews?
Liberals loooooooove beating up that straw man!!! It is an addiction for them lately.
So Mexico is basically Auschwitz....got it.
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