JEWISH JOURNAL
Twitter Debate on Anne Frank and White Privilege Condemned
Aaron Bandler
July 12, 2022

A Twitter debate among some users broke out over the weekend on whether Anne Frank had “white privilege.” The debate was widely condemned among Jewish and non-Jewish users alike. The tweets, highlighted by both The Jerusalem Post and TBZ, involved a couple of Twitter users stating that “Anne Frank had white privilege. Bad things happen to people with white privilege also but don’t tell the whites that.”…These tweets were roundly denounced throughout Twitter. “Over the weekend, Anne Frank was trending on social media with users debating whether she had ‘white privilege,’” the American Jewish Committee tweeted. “It is an absurd and deeply offensive claim that this victim of the Holocaust benefited from any privilege, white or otherwise.” READ MORE