Yesterday on Twitter – or as I like to call it World War Three Dot Com - the phrase “Anne Frank” was trending. And no it wasn't a good thing. Anne Frank was trending because tweets were going viral – woke tweets – talking about Anne Frank's “white privilege”. Anne Frank, the young woman who wrote a famous diary and was murdered by the Nazis in a concentration camp during the Holocaust, has now been posthumously granted “white privilege”. What did she have white privilege to exactly? Living in an attic in secret? Having access to a pen? Being, uh, literate enough to leave a documentation of what European Jews faced in the 1930s and '40s? I'm sorry I must have bumped my head. And in the meantime, on another tab of the internet, we see that there's been zero widespread acknowledgment that the Highland Park shooter who targeted a large Jewish community on July 4, had previously tried to enter a synagogue. Nobody wants to know about that. Antisemitism? Oh please. Not here in our America. Don’t be so unpatriotic. Look at the fireworks. Open an IPA. Better to be distracted by Anne Frank, and her lack of victim status according to our excellent American race binary.
The discourse is broken.
It struck me that this isn't a moment of gasping for breath while insisting that it can’t possibly have gone this far, because “Anne Frank has white privelge” is realistically the natural progression of the woke theories we've had rammed down our throats by the elite now for years. The anti-colonialists of America are so obsessed with debunking colonialism, they're establishing a brand new form of it, by colonizing everyone's identities and mental faculties. The Jewish people have been around much longer than Americans have been discussing race theory. And now we're supposed to rewrite our history and reframe our existence according to the racial binary established by skin tone? No. It doesn't matter what color of skin a Jew has, antisemitism will kill us. Put it in your textbooks. Anne Frank did not die so that clever-clogs wokes could make fair-skinned Jews apologize for their pigmentation.
It's garbage. Social media accounts are empowered by absolute nonsense that becomes weaponized to terrorize and destroy people who actually know what they're talking about. It's arrogant beyond words to imagine that Jews who refused to characterize themselves by their levels of Melanin can't keep up with the way of the progressive world. Do you think Jews have lasted thousands of years because we couldn't keep up? We're doing fine. We have a great country that's very progressive; more progressive than America's becoming. America has become a slave to Twitter. Its media is edited by Twitter. Its legal system is governed by Twitter. Its educational instutions are led by Twitter. All the while, Twitter is monetizing hatred, division and chaos, beating down the collective hive mind of Americans, and forcing them into segregated chambers of identity-orientated belonging. If you don't feel this is happening to you, then mazel tov. Please tell me your secret.
I've spent years refusing to have my identity defined by elite schools of thought that have been popularized by social justice agendas. The agents of these theories insist upon hierarchies of oppression that erase and dismiss the experiences of my ancestors. I resist all this because we can't repeat history, and I absolutely understand the parallels between the fascism of the dictators screaming these theories in my face, and the evil actors of previous generations who shoved Jews into ghettos and stripped us of our freedoms. My crime is that I am a sane person living in a world that wants to define me as insane so it can continue destroying the truth. My big mistake is that I am a morally consistent person of principle who is labelled a "racist", a "TERF" and a "liar" daily, because moral consistency isn't compatible with the narcissistic wardrobe of victimhood that masquerades itself as progressive politics. This isn’t about morality, it’s about power. If you dare to be moralistic, you will be disempowered.
And there's more to it than just my Jewish voice. This is bigger than me, it's bigger than Jews, it's bigger than Israel. I know that my “audience” is tired of me tweeting and commenting on the Amber Heard / Johnny Depp trial and the rising tide of misogyny, even though this is a subject I am motivated to talk about, but the similarities in disinformation and obfuscation via online discourse are chilling. They are frightening. And why would it ever be a surprise to anyone that the tools used by these new inventions to silence and erase Jews are also being used to silence and erase women; another group who historically suffer from the world's oldest hatred, and a hatred rooted in conspiracy theory, in demonization, and in a simple accusation that Eve lied, and Adam would have been better off without her?
The race for the truth is the biggest battle of our times. And this is an interconnected fight. This is not about a single issue. It's the war of the West and of a generation who have been so removed from any traditional warfare that they’ve become sensitive to the slightest of disagreements. We must stand outside of ourselves and understand the parallels, the tactics, the tools, the strategies, the actors, the evil. Don’t fear that your advocates are being distracted by “other issues” because these issues are mirrors upon each other. This is evil. And evil doesn't discriminate. It eventually makes its way around everything if given the chance. Can you imagine sending your child to school, and instead of reading Anne Frank's diary as it is (ie, a heart-rendering insight into the life of a child living in a different era, finding light amid her inevitable death), there's a moment where the teacher asks: “But let's think about this: did Anne have white privilege?” I ask if you can imagine it, because it is not outside the realm of possibility at this stage. Not in a society that is being hijacked by theories that would ensure that all scholastic subjects are taught via the lens of race. And why is that happening? Because educational institutions are cowering to online moments.
I'm sitting here writing this after spending five weeks more or less alone in a city I was thriving in only a few years ago. I am alone because wherever I turn there's a reason for me to no longer be considered, invited, remembered, thought of, loved, respected, befriended or trusted. And those reasons amount to words, to thoughts, to opinions. Those reasons amount to my refusal to succumb to this sickness of woke. Those reasons amount to my commitment to remain interesting and self-possessed. I have been dis-empowered because of my intergrity. Am I a journalist any more? I really don't know. What is a journalist in America in 2022? Is it someone who reports facts? Or someone who soothes the mob?
Social media discourse has left ordinary people deeply suspicious. Their fingers traverse the keyboard as if on autopilot: “lol”, “THIS”, “based”. In a sea of platitudes about saving humanity by being “nice”, people are wickedly unkind. Twitter has shed layers and layers of advancements in human emotional responses and intellectual rigor, and rendered its worshippers hunter-gatherers of memes and hashtags. You know as terrible as this might read: I'm glad Anne Frank isn't alive to see it.
Anne Frank as white privilege is so absurd that I am unable to understand it.
Nevertheless, it is always good to point out the absurd as absurd.
Thanks Eve.
Have faith, Eve. I follow you, Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Malone, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and other excellent writers and truth tellers who have been fired or canceled, or diminished, and you are gaining eyes and ears in this silent majority hungry for truth and bravery. Please keep talking to us. We need to know we're not alone. XX