Justin Bieber on Anne Frank: It is even
worse than you think
“Mary
McGrory once said that “to be a celebrity in America is to be forgiven
everything.”
Justin Bieber treated
Anne Frank like a kid. Where’s the harm in that?
One
newspaper, two columns, two hundred answers, maybe more.
I
find the comment by Beiber tasteless, repugnant, and suggesting that the pop
culture performer knows little of history and has no probability of becoming
better informed.
Alexandra Petrie wrote what I might
have written if I knew more about Beiber.
I don’t, know more about him; have never listened to more than a few
seconds of what he presents to the mob of PR pumped pre-teens. I am not at all likely to expand either
knowledge or appreciation of him, or any other performer of a similar
nature. I appreciate musical
talent. I have no use for musical
hype.
Richard Cohen voices a different
view. He may well be correct in believing
that Anne Frank was, like many young teenaged girls, then and now, attracted to
popular culture performers, actors, etc.
However, growing up in Nazi-occupied Europe as a Jew, being captured and
shipped to a death camp would tend to lessen the energy and interest in shallow
entertainers so that such energy and interest could be focused upon daily
survival. I think Cohen is in
error.
It’s academic. We don’t have to afford pop culture
performers any credence about anything that doesn’t involve their own
egocentric existence. In most instances,
they make that both easy and the correct behavior toward them. Petri’s closing remarks about Beiber seem to
be appropriate.
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