Anne Frank Memorial in Idaho Vandalized

[shenmue]

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/10/anne-frank-memorial-idaho-vandalized

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Ugh.

Kick and Rec for exposure.

[demmiblue]

2. Snippet:

Racist and anti-Semitic graffiti were scrawled on two outdoor marble tablets at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise, Idaho — the only memorial of its kind in the United States.

The site, on a greenbelt in downtown Boise, also is one of the few places in the world where the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is carved in stone.

Police are investigating but have made no arrests in the felony vandalism, discovered Tuesday by maintenance crews at the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights. The center is named for the late Bill Wassmuth, a former Catholic priest who is legendary in civil rights circles for his fight against racism.

Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in New York, called the vandalism an “act of unfathomable evil.”

“This act … demonstrates how we, as a society, have not yet reached the world of Anne Frank's dreams,” Goldstein said in a statement. “That's why our organization now focuses so strongly on contemporary injustice.”

[luvMIdog]

3. so tragic :(

seems humanity is trying to take giant leaps backwards

[shenmue]

5. Yes

[Aristus]

4. Stay classy, Idaho.

Those of us in Western Oregon and Washington view the eastern halves of our state along with Idaho as the PNW's crazy wall-eyed uncle who sits in the corner drooling and eating library paste.

[Stuart G]

6. Very Sad..

[Behind the Aegis]

7. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Anne Frank

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. --Anne Frank

I really do wonder sometimes.