[Media Insurgent]

"The Diary of Anne Frank"

You beat me to it Hennepin. It's not necessarily liberal, but I will always remember it as THE book that I was forced to read so many times throughout school. It was assigned four or five times between 6th grade and the end of high school! Talk about overkill.

I guess one leftist spin that always seemed to get put on it by my teachers is heavy emphasis on Frank's statement that even after all she went through, she still thought of people as being basically good. My liberal teachers always loved that because it reinforced their naive, utopian, 60's era worldview.

I've always thought that one of the distinguishing traits of us conservatives is our knowledge of and willingness to accept the idea that humanity is very flawed and capable of great evil if allowed to go unchecked. If Nazi Germany didn't prove that nothing does. It's understandable that a teenager who never had a chance to experience a full life would be so naive to believe this (although the cynic in me thinks she may have wrote it because it sounded noble more than because it was a sincere belief.) It does seem that my adult teachers, with full knowledge of the holocausrt and everything that happened in the second half of the 20th Century should have known better.

[A. Pole]

It's not necessarily liberal, but I will always remember it as THE book that I was forced to read so many times throughout school. It was assigned four or five times between 6th grade and the end of high school! Talk about overkill.

Such things make me think that this book is fake. P.C. crowd has an allergy to the truth, they could not promote authentic stuff repeatedly.