'Anne Frank' kindergarten is being renamed for the sake of diversity: 'We wanted a name without a political background'



A school in northern Germany has decided it's high time for a name change. For over 50 years, the kindergarten in the town of Tangerhütte has been called the "Kindertagesstätte 'Anne Frank'" after the Jewish German girl who provided future generations with a firsthand insight into life in hiding under Nazi occupation. She was ultimately captured, taken to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, and murdered along with her sister.

Parents and school officials no longer feel the Holocaust victim's name is diverse or inclusive enough for their institution. They would rather the school be called "World Explorers" to both evoke a sense of international diversity and accommodate immigrants' preferences.

Linda Schichor, the director of the kindergarten, told the local newspaper Volksstimme, "We wanted a name without a political background."

Schichor indicated that not only was Anne Frank's story difficult to explain to children, it did not resonate with immigrant families who had "often never heard of her."

One local suggested to the German paper Bild that this explanation failed to pass muster, noting, "Here in Tangerhütte we mainly have Ukrainians and Russians – hardly any Arab roommates."

Officials have nevertheless stressed that such a name change would move the needle on emphasizing the "self-determination and diversity" of the children at the center, reported the Telegraph.

Mayor Andreas Brohm, an initial supporter of the change, said, "It is important to the institution to make this conceptual change visible to the outside world."

"If parents and employees want a name that better reflects the new concept, that has more weight compared to the global political situation."

Christoph Hebuner, the deputy head of the International Auschwitz Committee, has implored the local council to reverse the decision, criticizing the apparent eagerness "to forget one's own history so easily, especially in these times of renewed anti-Semitism."

The country has recently seen a significant spike in anti-Semitic violence. Extra to the massive anti-Israel protests that have popped up across Germany following the savage Oct. 7 Hamas terror attacks, there have been reports of radicals once again marking the residences of Jewish citizens as part of a broader intimidation campaign.

Max Privorozki, chairman of the State Association of Jewish Communities in Saxony-Anhalt, told Bild, "I am not sure that now is the right moment to change the name of the day-care center, which has existed for more than 50 years."

"The reference to the parents with a migrant background, who often cannot do anything with the name of Anne Frank, is the best argument against the name change," added Privorozki. "This argument means that the integration of these parents into German society is failing."

In the face of mounting outrage, the town noted in a Monday statement, "These discussions are still ongoing without a decision being made at the moment."

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Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters faces backlash for wearing Nazi-like uniform at Berlin concert, comparing Anne Frank with George Floyd and Palestinian journalist



Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters is facing backlash to imagery at his concert in Germany that some critics are calling "anti-Semitic." During his recent concert in Berlin, the controversial rocker was dressed in garb resembling a Nazi uniform, and there were comparisons of Anne Frank with George Floyd and a Palestinian journalist.

Waters' concert at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin last week has recently garnered attention after video clips were posted to social media.

The enormous screen at the concert highlighted numerous names during the show, including Anne Frank – the German girl who was forced to go into hiding because the Nazis were hunting down Jews.

Other names included U.S. victims of deadly police encounters, including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Philando Castile.

Also broadcast on the screen was Sophie Scholl, an anti-Nazi political activist murdered by the Nazis; Mahsa Amini, a protester who died in the custody of Iranian "morality police" under suspicious circumstances in 2022; and Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian journalist for Al Jazeera who was shot and killed during a firefight between Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian militants in the West Bank in 2022.

Also during the concert, Waters was dressed in a uniform that resembled that of a Nazi SS soldier. He is seen on video wielding a replica rifle and firing off rounds.

A large pig balloon floated over the crowd that reportedly had the logo of Elbit – an Israeli defense company.

\u201cjetzt hat sich der roger offenbar als waffen-SS verkleidet samt roter armbinde und er\u00f6ffnet das feuer mit einer gewehr-attrappe\u201d
— Nicholas Potter (@Nicholas Potter) 1684347686
\u201cHere is video footage of Roger Waters dressed in facist SS Nazi garb, shooting the machine gun at the show:\u201d
— Ari Ingel (@Ari Ingel) 1684879937

On Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter, "Good morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust."

\u201cGood morning to every one but Roger Waters who spent the evening in Berlin (Yes Berlin) desecrating the memory of Anne Frank and the 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.\u201d
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@Israel Foreign Ministry) 1684913341

"Roger Waters compares the tragic death of a Palestinian journalist covering a firefight between Israeli forces & Palestinian militants to the death of Anne Frank who was led to the slaughter with over 6 million other Jews at the hands of the Nazis," said Ari Ingel – director at Creative Community for Peace, a self-described "non-profit entertainment industry organization comprised of prominent members of the entertainment community who have come together to promote the arts as a bridge to peace, to educate about rising antisemitism within the entertainment industry, and to galvanize support against the cultural boycott of Israel."

Waters' concert opened with a statement that read: "On a matter of public interest: a court in Frankfurt has ruled that I am not an anti-Semite. Just to be clear, I condemn antisemitism unreservedly."

At a concert in Belgium in 2013, Rogers also donned a Nazi-like uniform and had a floating pig with the Star of David emblazoned on it.

The Times of Israel reported in 2013:

Waters, who recently urged other performers to boycott Israel and compared Israel to apartheid South Africa, was singing on stage on July 20 under the balloon while toting a machine gun replica and wearing a long black leather jacket with a red-and-white arm band, reminiscent of a Nazi uniform. The former Pink Floyd member was singing “get him up against the wall, that one looks Jewish and that one’s a coon, who let all of this riff-raff into the room” – the lyrics of the song “In the Flesh.”

"In the Flesh" is from Pink Floyd's 1979 album "The Wall." The song is about a jaded rock star named "Pink," who "hallucinates himself as a Nazi-like dictator ordering his audience to attack ethnic minorities."

The song ends with Waters as Pink declaring, "If I had my way I'd have all of you shot!"

Waters – who turns 80 in September – is currently on his farewell tour, called "This Is Not a Drill."

'Anne Frank had white privilege' was a trending topic on Twitter, the outlandish claim was immediately torn apart: 'It's time to shut the internet down. Completely.'



A trending topic on Twitter was that Anne Frank had white privilege. Yes, that Anne Frank. The Anne Frank who was forced to go into hiding at age 13 because the Nazis were hunting Jews and she later died in a concentration camp at 15 years old.

On Saturday, one of the top-trending topics on Twitter was "Anne Frank." The reason that the famous diary author was trending was because leftists claimed that Anne Frank had white privilege.

\u201cBoth of these screenshots were taken today (Anne Frank, to save you the click, went viral for people saying she benefitted from white privilege). It\u2019s getting harder and harder to say with confidence that Jews have a safe and secure future in this country. Anyway, Shabbat shalom.\u201d
— Melissa Weiss (@Melissa Weiss) 1657394886

The original tweet that ignited the outlandish debate was allegedly started by Twitter user @Ka1zoku_Qu0d. The user's bio reads: "Marxist-Humanist" and "Hedonist-Utilitarian." The bio also uses anarchist slogans: "I want to eat the rich" and "ACAB" (All Cops Are Bastards).

"Hold on I want to make sure I say this carefully. Yeah Anne Frank had white privilege. Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that," the Twitter user wrote on July 8.

The tweet has since been deleted.

Another user added, "Yes, all white people are safe. No one is saying the Nazis didn't target white people, just that white people can hide behind their whiteness, whereas in Nazi USA black people can't. Go tell black people the whites got it hard."

\u201cBabe wake up they\u2019re calling Anne Frank a colonizer on Twitter again.\u201d
— Celebrimbor (Niche Internet MicroCELebrity) (@Celebrimbor (Niche Internet MicroCELebrity)) 1657324545
\u201cIt\u2019s time for our bi-annual garbage Holocaust take featuring Anne Frank and Jews as \u2018white people\u2019.\u201d
— Claire (@Claire) 1657381637

The inflammatory tweets ignited a whirlwind of controversy and Twitter reactions tore apart the shocking assumption.

BlazeTV personality Steven Crowder: "I can't believe there are actually people saying Anne Frank had white privilege. Morons."

Writer Katherine Brodsky: "Somehow a discussion broke out on Twitter today about how Anne Frank, of all people, had 'white privilege.' A girl literally murdered for being Jewish, what was considered--at best--by Nazis as a inferior race. How delusional does this identity politics discourse get?"

Conservative commentator Matt Walsh: "According to the Left's doctrine of white privilege, yes Anne Frank had it. If that makes the concept of 'white privilege' sound insane, well right exactly."

Writer Ashton Pittman: "If you think 'Anne Frank had white privilege,' you don't know what 'white' means. Race isn't real. It's made up. What makes you 'white' is relative to your society's ideas. In Nazi Germany, she wasn't 'white:' the Nazis saw her as part of a 'Jewish race' & murdered her for it. If Anne Frank could've been transported into 21st century America, we'd consider her 'white.' But in Nazi Germany, she wasn't 'white;' she was Jewish and considered part of a separate race. That's why anti-Semitism is a form of racism even though most Jews appear 'white.'"

Columnist Eric Michael Garcia: "A lot of the discourse about Anne Frank and 'white privilege' shows a gross misunderstanding of the history of racism and whiteness has been historically defined. Europe (and America's) definition of 'white' in the first half of the 20th Century is VERY different from now."

Real estate investor Adam Milstein: "Twitter goes full antisemite as tweets about Anne Frank go viral accusing her of having 'white privilege.' Heartbreaking indeed to see such antisemitism in 2022."

Singer Clay Aiken: "I think it's time to shut the internet down. Completely."

Novelist Stephen Marche: "This has to be the low point of our discourse, right? I mean it can't get stupider than this, right?"

Writer Jordan Weissmann: "'Anne Frank had white privilege' feels like a nail in the coffin for a certain kind of discourse. But also, an immediate contender for all-time worst tweet.

Congressional candidate Robby Starbuck: "The woke left is legitimately so insane that they’ve reached the point where they even accuse ANNE FRANK of having white privilege. This is just one of many reasons normal Americans will elect a massive red wave of Republicans in November. We’ve ALL had enough of this nonsense!"

Socialist Asher Wolf: "Trying to posthumously cancel Anne Frank for ‘white privilege’ in 2022."

Even far-left journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones dismissed the preposterous notion, "Anne Frank did not have white privileged in Nazi Germany. Literally wasn't considered part of the white race."

The Jerusalem Post reported, "The debate about Anne Frank allegedly spawned out of a series of convoluted unrelated arguments on Twitter over the course of months, according to one Twitter user starting with sexual stereotypes about white women. This reportedly devolved into accusations of racism, and discussions on racial identity."

In 2020, Time magazine claimed that disability rights advocate Hellen Keller was "just another privileged white person."

Actress Cheryl Hines rips husband Robert Kennedy Jr.'s  'reprehensible' suggestion that Anne Frank had it easier than us as we face vaccine passports



Actress Cheryl Hines blasted husband Robert Kennedy Jr.'s "reprehensible and insensitive" remarks Sunday suggesting Holocaust victim Anne Frank had it easier than us as we face loss of freedom under vaccine passports.

What are the details?

"My husband’s reference to Anne Frank at a mandate rally in D.C. was reprehensible and insensitive," Hines tweeted Tuesday. "The atrocities that millions endured during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinions are not a reflection of my own."

Kennedy — son of late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of late President John F. Kennedy — said during his speech at the rally against vaccine mandates that they're part of looming totalitarian control.

He said that "even in Hitler's Germany ... you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in an attic, like Anne Frank did."

Kennedy added that — unlike life under Hitler — technology within the next five years will make it so that "none of us can run, and none of us can hide." With that he mentioned Bill Gates' satellites, 5G technology, digital currency, and vaccine passports.

"The minute they hand you that vaccine passport, every right that you have is transformed into a privilege contingent upon your obedience to arbitrary government dictates," Kennedy said. "It will make you a slave!"

What else?

Anne Frank ultimately was taken to a Nazi concentration camp where she died, and Kennedy faced widespread condemnation over his reference to her, including from the Auschwitz Memorial: “Exploiting of the tragedy of people who suffered, were humiliated, tortured and murdered by the totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany — including children like Anne Frank — in a debate about vaccines & limitations during global pandemic is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decay."

When a Twitter user asked Hines, "Do you stand with your husband?" her response was much less direct.

"My husband’s opinions are not a reflection of my own," Hines replied Monday to the Twitter user. "While we love each other, we differ on many current issues."

The Hill reported that following Hines' initial tweet, another Twitter user said she should go further with a statement that her spouse was “wrong” and that “no one should compare anything to the horrors of the Holocaust.”

“Yes, I agree with you,” Hines replied, according to the outlet.

Kennedy — apparently minutes prior to Hines' Tuesday tweet blasting him — tweeted the following: "I apologize for my reference to Anne Frank, especially to families that suffered the Holocaust horrors. My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the perils from new technologies of control. To the extent my remarks caused hurt, I am truly and deeply sorry."

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