Anne Frank Was Not Deported by ICE

A Pox On Those Who Equate Deportation With Genocide

Over the past few days, ICE has been conducting immigration raids in Los Angeles where protests erupted in response — featuring pro-Palestine flags and BLM-style street violence. To my shock, I’ve seen at least three social media climbers quoting Anne Frank, as if, in their feeble little minds, it somehow relates to what’s happening in my city’s streets. Talk about a desperate, clickbait-whorish attempt at comparing apples to oranges.

These misguided morons are mostly on TikTok — what a lame excuse for a Gen Z news service it has become — where pompous influencers have found their life’s mission: spewing nonsense while alone in their rooms. How dare they desecrate the memory of Anne Frank in their meager attempts to chase views, likes, and new followers. I’d like to put them on a train myself… to nowhere. (Too late. They’re already there — a bunch of nobodies doing nothing special, void of any value to humanity.)

I’ve even seen tweets crying “never again,” with no historical or moral grounding.

[SIDEBAR]
As someone who’s stopped saying “never again” — as it pertains to Jews in the diaspora since the Holocaust — they can have their little slogan. It’s been proven to be void of meaning for decades. If “never again” actually meant something, we wouldn’t currently be knee-deep in antisemitic rhetoric and violent threats, which we see plaguing our country and many parts of the world.
So, girls, go ahead — enjoy the “never again-ing” of your nonsensical movement. Just know: it really doesn’t matter.

Let me be very clear — I’m saying it loud, and y’all better pay heed:
What is happening with these ICE raids is nothing like what happened to Anne Frank.
So, listen up, you clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junkies.

Anne Frank wasn’t undocumented.
She wasn’t deported for overstaying a visa.
She wasn’t trying to navigate a broken immigration system.
She was hunted down and murdered by evil, violent perpetrators of death — targeting innocent, law-abiding citizens just for being Jewish.

Anne died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp of typhus after fleeing, hiding, being betrayed, arrested, and deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz. She was one of the six million who perished in the tidal wave of Nazi violence.

So, you see, that’s not what’s happening in Los Angeles. You’re in LaLa Land if you think you’re onto something. Because comparing the two is not only historically ignorant — it borders on wishing for a similar outcome in your blithering, pretentious foolishness and desperation to make a point.

Alas, here we are — activists, influencers, and keyboard warriors quoting Anne Frank as if invoking her name earns moral authority. It doesn’t. It earns backlash from people like me, who know firsthand the pain and suffering of those who were in the actual same boat as Anne Frank — family members who survived what she couldn’t.

When you quote Anne Frank while your comrades are stealing iPhones from the Apple Store or setting fire to trash bins in downtown LA, you're not in the same league as those who perished in the Holocaust.
They earned their angels’ wings.
You, on the other hand, are going to hell.
You’re also embarrassing yourself, as your idiocy is on full display.

Anne didn’t have the luxury of looting, burning cars, or vandalizing stores.
On the contrary — that’s what was happening to Jews all over Europe. That’s why she was locked in an attic. That’s why she had to hide in silence — because outside, the world was actively trying to erase her and everyone like her.

There is no moral equivalent to sending immigrants back to their native countries, especially if they are here illegally.
And burning our American flags?
Comprende, inglés?

No one is being forced to dig a shallow grave for their siblings.
Yeah, that shit happened.
No one is being marched off to gas chambers.
That shit did too.

You think quoting Anne Frank is some kind of flex?
It’s not. It’s ignorant.
You think her words matter to the same people who revel in chaos?
They don’t.
They matter to people like me.

There is a spiritual cost to this kind of appropriation.
You don’t get to take the words of a child murdered in the Holocaust and drape them over your protest signs without consequence.

Anne Frank is not a meme.
She is not a metaphor.
She’s a warning.

Anne did not die so you could weaponize her to score cheap points.
She died because the world turned away while people justified evil in plain sight.
And if you think that shit is going to happen again, think again.