Friday, November 17, 2017

Peyton Gatewood- Here’s Why A Nonprofit Named For Anne Frank Keeps Attacking Trump

The article

"Mr. President, that’s an alternative fact on a psychedelic acid trip ... Have you been adding magic mushrooms to your chopped liver on matzo?"

 Before this year, the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect rarely made headlines. On the rare occasions the group, named for the young Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, appeared in the news, it was never tied to controversy. In the months since President Donald Trump took office, the New York-based nonprofit has catapulted to national prominence with a series of aggressive attacks on the new chief executive and his policies. Unlike other advocacy organizations, which take hours to craft carefully worded statements that usually land in reporters’ inboxes after their stories are already published, the Anne Frank Center’s executive director, Steven Goldstein, posts his unfiltered responses directly to Facebook. He knows his style is provocative, but he says that’s intentional ― and that, in some ways, it’s similar to how Trump reaches his own audience. Goldstein’s goal “is to speak with equal directness, but add compassion and justice and morality to it,” he said.

Here's a statement that I feel sums up my attitude on this situation: AHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAH! If this were literally anyone but Donald Trump, these "attacks" might be uncalled for. Alas, this is Donald Trump- It's fine. Speaking with "equal directness" only seems fair. This presidency is a joke, a really bad joke. Respect is earned. If the majority of your supporters are almost comically uneducated, how has Mr. Trump earned my respect? Someone get this man a therapist ASAP. 

1 comment:

  1. I think this is the most random organization to be making these statements but I love it. It is entirely true that the best way to get back is to go with the same unfiltered thought stream that Trump seems to continually spewing.

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