"...[E]ditors & readers believe that it’s imperative to acknowledge Anne as a complete human being & a complete writer. The Nazis declared Anne unclean and murdered her in the name of purity. We don’t want to endorse them by blacking out portions of her life as too dirty or insufficiently respectable.
"...As far as the Nazis were concerned, gay people and Jewish people were part of the same 'threat'....
"...[Y]ou can’t separate out a Jewish Anne from a queer Anne. She’s all one person...
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"...Whether you target her for one identity the Nazis despised or for another identity the Nazis despised, you’re still targeting the same girl the Nazis murdered.
"...Censoring [Frank is]...saying that [her] words &...experiences are dangerous, infectious, impure...exactly what the Nazis thought about Jewish people, & about LGBT people too. That’s why they killed Anne Frank. Her words, though, lived on and defied them. We shouldn’t silence her where they failed."
https://press.coop/@Independent/111103974789913336
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Attached: 1 image Voices: Censoring Anne Frank’s diary because of ‘sexuality’ is not just denigrating but a smokescreen There are efforts to silence Anne Frank now as she was silenced in the past #press https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/anne-frank-diary-sexuality-book-b2415987.html?utm_source=press.coop
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