Yes, the latest victim of the culture of sealing and unraveling is Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager who hid in a basement for years to escape Nazi persecution during World War II.
It was during this time that she wrote the diary, which, in addition to its invaluable importance as a historical document, became a moral reference for several generations, an example of resilience to evil and a symbol of resistance to the horrors of antiSemitism.
On August 4, 1944, the hiding place where Anne Frank lived was attacked by SS soldiers: she was arrested, interrogated and finally taken to the AuschwitzBirkenau concentration and extermination camp. In Auschwitz, half of those who arrived went directly to the gas chambers, the other half were forced to do forced labor.
Three months later, Anne Frank, already exhausted and in poor health, was transferred to another camp in BergenBelsen, also crammed with Jewish prisoners living in inhumane conditions with no food or sanitation. There she contracted typhus and died. His body was buried in a mass grave.
Anne Frank was 15 years old.
Well, last week the Holocaust was one of the trending topics on Twitter. The reason: Activists of the socalled Critical Theory of Race, which interprets the world and all social relationships exclusively through the prism of skin color, defended the thesis that Anne Frank and the Jews enjoyed “white privilege”.
Judging by the content of the posts, the genocide of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust seems disturbing not because of the suffering of the victims, but because it turns on its head a valuable premise for the militants who can depose Anne Frank: the white people who are necessarily oppressors cannot fall victim to discrimination and intolerance.
Some of the posts read: “Anne Frank had white privilege”; “If I were black, no one would care about this girl”; “Nobody says the Nazis didn’t persecute whites, but whites can hide behind their whiteness, while blacks in Nazi America can’t hide.” There were others, cruder ones.
Yes, identity mania has reached this point. Nothing good can come of it.
Prejudices against human fossils?
Also on Twitter last week, Canadian archaeologist Emma Paladino sparked controversy when she suggested that researchers in her field should stop identifying the biological sex of human fossils. Their argument: The anatomy of the bones, which reveals whether an individual was born with a female or male genital organ, does not define his sex.
For precisely this reason, Palladino argues, it is not possible to know whether the human fossil identified as male or female during life. And to assign a sex to a fossil based on its physical characteristics without knowing how it identified itself is an oppressive practice inconsistent with the awakened values of our time.
Incidentally, the debate has already reached the coroner’s office, where activists claim that “current standards of forensic human identification do a disservice to people who don’t clearly fit the gender binary.”
That’s the way it is.
Joseph Stalin arrested in Sri Lanka
Joseph Stalin was arrested in Sri Lanka. It’s about a union leader who organized violent protests against the government of the small island in southern India. The protests eventually led to the invasion and prolonged occupation of the presidential palace in early July and the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who was nearly lynched.
After Rajapaksa’s resignation, Ranil Wickremesinghe assumed the presidency of the country. His first steps were to send troops of soldiers and police to force the demonstrators out of the palace and … arrest Stalin. Because of this, the hashtag “Free Stalin!” has gone viral on Sri Lankan social networks in recent days.
But what matters here is something else: Sri Lanka, a former British colony, not so long ago had a dynamic economy with positive social indicators and a solid middle class. The deep crisis the country is going through, with uncontrolled debt, corruption, shortages and widespread famine, shows how mismanagement can quickly lead a country to tragedy.
How did it happen?
There are those who say that Sri Lanka was a laboratory country for the Davos Economic Forum advisers, the same that says that in 2030 you will have nothing, but you will be happy.
In 2019, the newly appointed Rajapaksa invited several Forum advisers to form his economic team and followed their recommendations to the letter including a ban on the use of agrochemicals and a strong campaign for vegan diets for the islanders (“No thou shalt eat meat” is a another requirement of the 2030 Agenda).
The result: food shortages began, hunger and malnutrition increased.
Upon reflection, the proposition may be the same. Turn the planet into a huge Venezuela where nobody will have anything but everyone will be happy. Because if you look to the side, you will see that the other has nothing either.