The whole story sounds contrived. The school board was to remove a specific illustrated version of Anne Frank, temporarily, and they're making it sound like any and all editions of the book are banned for good.
I knew by the fifth grade that you can’t trust a librarian.
I read Anne Frank’s Diary 3 or 4 times. Yep, they’re pornograhizing Anne Frank.
Well, it was written by her father...
Just like they deliberately mischaracterized the Florida bill to keep all sexual matters out of grades K through 3 by calling it the "don't say gay" bill.
We read the play in school and I have seen the movie. I’ve never read the actual diary. There was certainly none of that in the play or the film (which was based on the play). Even if she did write that in the diary, it should probably be censored from a grade school version of the diary. Also, it is an inclusion on Anne’s privacy to reveal private and intimate adolescent thoughts she would never have expressed in public.
They’re talking about a young adult comic book adaptation (graphic novel) of the classic. I’ve found most of those adaptations to be vehicles of indoctrination.
> “Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation,” by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman and illustrator David Polonsky <
Huh? Anne Frank had a diary, a simple diary. Let age-appropriate kids read that diary. Why must a filmmaker and an illustrator be involved?
I’m guessing that they put their own spin on the diary, which of course would be very inappropriate.
If a school district in the US (as opposed to Hungary or Russia) is fighting to keep a book available to minors, I know which side I’m taking!
It’s not the Diary of Anne Frank. It is a loose comic book adaptation with homosexuality as one of its themes.
Does the left ever think about anything except their genitalia?
Perhaps it is that fascination that is the core of their dumbassery.
I'd like to know more about this person.
I think the unstated implication is that this is some "super Conservative / Christian fanatic" who hates sex.
But I wonder if it's more like a "communist educator" who is stirring the pot and getting people angry about book banning -- so that she can start stocking the shelves with truly objectionable material (which people will then be afraid to object to).
The Left is crafty.
I saw her diary in Amsterdam. It was eerily quiet.
The “tell” is that the Bible is also a target.
Lotta more explicit stuff in the Bible than Anne Frank ever put on paper.
Nor did I that I can remember.
Some years ago, a new edition of Anne Frank’s diary was released with additional chapters that had been excluded from the previous printings. These new chapters included Anne’s musing about her growing sexuality and are pretty explicit, thus they had been left out of earlier editions, probably due to more stringent moral standards of yesteryear, and because the sex stuff took away from the impact of the horrors of Nazi abuse.
One of my favorite urban legends has to do with a performance of the play “The Diary of Anne Frank.” A critic’s review was reported that actress _____’s portrayal of Anne Frank was so bad that when the Germans came in searching for her, audience members yelled “she’s in the attic!”
This is a new version supposedly based on a secret version.
Its pretty much soft core porn in parts.