{"id":71558,"date":"2019-06-14T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71558"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T15:26:59","slug":"people-are-basically-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71558","title":{"rendered":"People Are Basically Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Anne Frank&#8217;s 90th birthday.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Erin Blakemore has <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oqTyj80bOG?amp=1\">an excellent article<\/a> on how the Attic may, or may not, have been discovered by the Nazis and their collaborators.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And I urge you to read Blakemore&#8217;s twitter thread (starting below) about the anger she feels seeing the remarks in Frank&#8217;s diary about believing in her heart in the goodness of people are so often ripped out of context today:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today would have been Anne Frank&#39;s 90th birthday. <br><br>And as I do every year on this day, I bristle at people sharing her out-of-context quote about people being good at heart. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WWS9IYKfM3\">pic.twitter.com\/WWS9IYKfM3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Erin Blakemore (@heroinebook) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heroinebook\/status\/1138841744789737473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>If you keep reading, you&#8217;ll note that Frank &#8211; who wrote that three weeks before the Attic was raided &#8211; went on to say she had a harder and harder time believing that.  Justifiably so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Diary of Anne Frank wasn&#8217;t the first book I ever read about the Holocaust &#8211; <em>The Black Book, Treblinka<\/em> and <em>Escape from<\/em> <em>Sobibor<\/em> all came first &#8211; but it was one of many things that convinced me that the hopey-changey of the left were at best a trifle and at worst bait.  It started me down the road toward being a Reagan Conservative, a 2nd Amendment activist, and someone who eschews horror movies.   Who needs to watch <em>The Walking Dead<\/em> &#8211; cable TV&#8217;s excellent show about the complete collapse of civilization &#8211; when it&#8217;s all right there in history? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today would have been Anne Frank&#8217;s 90th birthday.\u00a0\u00a0 Erin Blakemore has an excellent article on how the Attic may, or may not, have been discovered by the Nazis and their collaborators.\u00a0\u00a0 And I urge you to read Blakemore&#8217;s twitter thread (starting below) about the anger she feels seeing the remarks in Frank&#8217;s diary about believing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71561,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71558\/revisions\/71561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}