The Discussion of Holocaust Victim Anne Frank's 'White Privilege' Has Begun

[Hagriddy]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

AOC invoked the holocaust when visiting the "kids in cages" at the border camps. Just FYI.

If you want to see more just pick some national political figure and google them mentioning the holocaust or nazis or hitler comparisons and you'll get a bunch.

Let's try a hypothetical. Stick with me on this one and I promise this will all make sense. Imagine there is a country somewhere, and this hypothetical country is currently facing a large influx of asylum seekers or immigrants for whatever reason. These newly arriving people don't speak the same language and are from a part of the world that is seen as fundamentally different than the country they're trying to get into.


As always, the usual social tensions arise, and the typical debates are being had about how to handle the situation. And the political right of this country calls for swift deportation and denying these people asylum, saying, "We can't take in the whole world," etc. You know how this goes.


The debate goes back and forth, and the usual articles are being published showcasing each side of the argument. Here's how one of these might look like:



"The increasing immigration of this new group of people is gradually becoming a serious problem. Although one may be far from wanting to deny these unfortunate ones the right to asylum, it must not be forgotten that a large proportion of these arrivals are made up of people whose immigration and settlement in our country meets justified concerns. Pity for them must not blind us to the fact that they are largely unfit for integration into our society."



Naturally, there are also voices in the press arguing for the opposite, and opinion pieces like this are also published:



"In the public, increasing voices can be heard that demand legal measures against the newly arriving asylum seekers (...).


These people are deemed black marketeers, smugglers and criminals, or as work-shy. All these arguments are aimed at taking the strongest measures, i.e. to cram them into concentration camps or force them to leave the country. A measure that destroys so many livelihoods should not be based on bold allegations. Even less it should be based on demagogic agitation that doesn't live up to the facts nor is capable to effectively remedy existing damage. (...) Truly, the recovery of our country cannot be brought about by the use of force against a small, defenseless fraction of the population."


Eventually, the authorities respond to increasing right-wing pressure and set up facilities to concentrate asylum seekers and immigrants without citizenship to ensure swift deportation. Shortly after they are set up, though, reports of unsanitary conditions and inhumane treatment spark public protests, and a female politician decides to tour some of these facilities to get a picture of the situation.


The conditions she witnesses in these camps are absolutely appalling to her, and in front of Parliament, she claims that detainees are forced into wooden barracks infested with bugs, and that the air in these buildings is unbearable. At night they only have sliced-up blankets to protect themselves from the cold,
and she also talks about the detainees being served substandard food, including rotten potatoes.



Continuing, she says, "It's not just our responsibility, but the one of every upstanding person to bring this shame to an end as fast as possible," and closes her report with categorizing the previous occurrences as, "severely damaging to the reputation of our country."


A different public figure also decides to tour these facilities and comes to the opposite conclusion, stating:


"All in all, we can say that this whole thing has been blown out of proportion and is used for political agitation, by the left."


Okay, enough of this. What was this all about? Well, I just thought it would be funny showing a number of events from a different time and place, considering how much it echoes the current situation in the United States, without you knowing where this happened.


But enough of the funniness; here comes the gut punch. As you can probably already guess, our hypothetical country is not hypothetical at all. It's very real, and this all happened in the early 1920s in the country of Germany. I had to switch a few words for the quotes, like replacing "Germany" with "our country," but the rest is all kept the way it was.


The news piece opposing the asylum seekers was published in the Karlsruher Tagblatt on the 3rd of January 1920, and the opposition piece was written by Albert Einstein a couple of months later. The female politician touring these camps was Mathilde Wurm of the Independent Social Democratic Party, and the quote about the concentration camps being totally fine and used as a political tool by the left also is a real quote.


Now, why does this even matter? Apart from being one of the more interesting historical parallels, it matters because the immigrants in this case were Jews fleeing persecution in the Russian Empire and seeking refuge in Germany. It also matters because these first camps on German soil to literally be called "Konzentrationslager." Not that it should matter, since facilities with the name "concentration camp" have been around since the Spanish-American War. And if you don't know the difference between a concentration camp and a death camp, maybe just, you know, shut your face about it. So yes, these are concentration camps.


Anyway, the reason why I like this German example so much is because in retrospect, we can clearly see it as being a stepping stone to the eventual genocide of the European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators about two decades later.



And not just Jews, of course, but other minorities like Romani, who were also stuffed into the same earlier-described concentration camps in the 1920s. And keep in mind that when Germany's first domestic concentration camps were set up, the country had a left-leaning government which openly condemned antisemitism.


The Nazi Party barely even existed at this point. It was far from entering the national parliament. So now would be the time to write your comment about how the U.S. concentration camps already existed under Obama to "totally own me" or whatever. About two to three years after being established, Germany's first domestic concentration camps would close their doors again, because the conditions continued to spark public protests, and operating them became too much of a fiscal burden for the government. Be that as it may, the arguments from the right when it comes to human rights abuses in the name of immigration enforcement don't change over time, it seems. "If these camps are so horrible, why don't they just stay where they are?"


"This is just a political ploy by the open-borders left," etc. And I can only speculate what these people feel on the inside, but the smug scoffing when someone brings up past atrocities to say, "you know, maybe we're going down a dark path and cramming vulnerable minorities into a confined space and then neglecting them," comes from a total inability to see societal violence on a continuum.

[TheOldPuss]

Some people obviously don't have anything better to do than to ascribe "White Privilege", or any other title, to further their agenda.
Anne Frank, of all people.
These idiots obviously have too much time on their hands, and need to find something constructive to do, rather than sow further division through a victim of the Holocaust. Reprehensible.
Our culture is in the dumper.

[The Philosopher]

This just shows the intense hatred that liberals have for white people and how warped their view of the world is. Even an innocent child who was hunted down and murdered simply because of her religion is seen as the enemy, as long as she is white.

[ChrisC]

Originally Posted by hawkeye2009

Liberals are insane

I don't think there is any question that the modern leftist liberals (authoritarian collectivists) are not only insane, but the enemy of truth and liberty.

[stone26]

Holy moly, that thread on twitter is one big, fat train wreck. The whole thing started by asking if white LGBTQ+ people still had white privilege. Somehow, that went down a rabbit hole and turned into "anne frank had white privilege."

Damn, the internet is crazy.