Report: Mormons Posthumously Baptize Anne Frank (this past Saturday)

[jsmirman]

90. They are precisely chosen analogies

because, taking the Shepard case, it is a negation of, or at the very least, a tampering with the very aspect of the person that they died because of - which is the reason that they both remain such painful and vibrant memories for the respective groups (Douglass did not die for being black, but I use him as a representative of the struggle which involved the daily torture, misery, and death of a people).

Those examples are not just run of the mill revisionist history - they strike at the very heart of the thing that makes them the cherished icons that they are for many of us today. Anne Frank was a wonderful, articulate, thoughtful little girl and a wonderful human being, but that isn't why she is remembered. If she was all those things and was allowed to reach old age and die naturally, she may have accomplished other things that we might remember her by - and her thoughts are beautiful enough that they may have gained some breadth of memory and acclaim. But she is remembered and loved as widely as she is because she was a wonderful, articulate, thoughtful little girl and a wonderful human being who composed such beautiful thoughts despite horrible suffering under the Nazis and who was ultimately murdered because she was Jewish.

As lovely as her diary is, I don't think there would be an Anne Frank House minus the Nazis and her murder.

It's nice that you have a friend who think this is ridiculous, and I can't speak - at least in detail - for any Jew but myself, but I am not a Jew who goes around looking for imagined affronts, and this rouses my extreme ire. When it comes to the Mormons, don't baptize her, don't say a freaking thing about her soul - leave us alone and leave her alone.