Twitter Users Accuse Anne Frank of Having “White Privilege”

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Thanks to her diary which survived World War Two, Anne Frank has become one of the most recognizable names and faces of the Holocaust, but in recent weeks, a trend on Twitter has sought to reframe her memory as something else entirely: as a recipient of “white privilege.”

This heinous rewriting of history is not only an assault on reality, but on the memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, and serves as a reminder of why accurate reporting on history is as important as it’s ever been.

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