Amy Sterling Casil
1 min readJul 11, 2022

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It's punching down, Jessica. I understand what you are saying about Anne Frank's diary being so widely adopted in so many schools. I less appreciate your lectures about how poor nonwhite Americans are, how much they suffer, and how difficult it would be for them to relate to Anne Frank. I know the extreme poverty and deprivation within the U.S. that primarily white, better-off neighborhoods and towns have no idea of. This crap about Anne Frank is punching down at a little murdered girl. You could educate others in your own writing about how the actual German Nazis copied U.S. Jim Crow laws and took concentration camp and "Final Solution" inspiration from the Native American genocide. You've made a little cottage industry yourself, with thousands of readers. Good for you. There's nothing good about saying this about Anne Frank. Include others' stories so all can understand and relate and begin to empathize with others whom we do not know, have not grown up with, and should have a care for. But I see you are always on trend.

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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