The big question that Justin Bieber’s comment at the Anne Frank House’s guestbook raises… and you know the comment:

Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber.

Creating awkward paragraph juxtapositions such as this one:

Adolescent and teen girls obsessed with the Canadian singer are known as “beliebers.”
Anne Frank died a teenager in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945.

So, the big question this guestbook comment leaves:  would she have?

The best you can do is extrapolate her attitudes from her book, and the answer one comes to is… No, Anne Frank probably would not have been a Justin Bieber fan.  As much as the Anne Frank House is trying to cover for him.  (For his part Justin Bieber is brushing aside the controversy with a shirtless photograph and a sarcastic retort of “so very crazy” in the “stop the presses” mode.)

Is there a lesson to all this?  Hm…  Yes and no.  No and yes.

Actually I kind of want to dig into the realm of stormfront and the neo-nazi (and holocaust denying) web forums to see their take on the controversy… but … I don’t know… I’m afraid to.

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