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Thu Jun 27, 2019, 03:18 PM Jun 2019

(Jewish Group) A Dutch rapper said she chose the stage name 'Anne Frank' as a tribute. Antisemite.

A Dutch rapper said she chose the stage name ‘Anne Frank’ as a tribute. Turns out she’s anti-Semitic.

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)

When a scandal began to brew around her use of Anne Frank as a stage name, a 25-year-old rapper from the Netherlands defended it as a tribute to the Holocaust victim.

“It’s not malicious,” the rapper, whose real name may be Anne van der Does, according to the GeenStijl news site, told the Het Parool daily in an interview published Wednesday, a week after the release of her debut single titled “Silence.”

The R-rated song is ostensibly about sex (see lines such as “If you come to me do it naked”) but it also contains the lines “Anne Frank is a bossy bitch” and “I stashed shit in the secret annex” — the latter a reference to both hard drugs and the hiding place where the teenage diarist stayed for two years during the Holocaust before the was discovered by the Nazis and murdered (the specific word for “secret annex” that she uses, “achterhuis,” is closely associated with the Anne Frank story in Holland).

Responding to criticism by the Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam over her use of the name — the museum called it “insensitive” — she said that she chose it because it had just been her nickname since elementary school.

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You mean someone tried to "culturally appropriate" something important to the Jewish community and is really an anti-Semite?! I am shocked.
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