So have you heard? An actor who is most famous for starring in a film about friends who wake up from a debaucherous bachelor party in Las Vegas feels like he needs to give Justin Bieber a lesson in proper etiquette…
However, this is not what bothered me most. What bothered me about the story is that there’s still people who are experiencing a moral indignation towards Justin Bieber’s comments regarding Anne Frank. I hope that needs no further introduction.
Now, I’m not a fan of mindless hate, so I’m really getting sick and tired of this popular idea that taste in music is somehow a gauge on an individual’s intellect. This is really what is going on at the core of all of this subject and many others.
This kind of pretentious elitist discrimination has got to be opposed with full force. This is especially apparent in the discourse that has been triggered after Justin Bieber’s visit to Anne Frank’s Museum.
The plausibility that, if Frank had lived in our time, she would’ve been a fan of pop music is not only a big one, but I would think it would have been a preferable one to her dying in a Nazi concentration camp.
While many are getting their superiority complex stroked by stabs at Bieber’s intelligence level, few realize that his career began at 14. No entertainer can have a proper education and juggle a schedule as hectic as such a career demands and, in spite of all this, his comment could have been much more ignorant than it wasn’t.
What’s most disturbing is that the hate talk is really an implicit preference of Anne Frank’s actual fate. Apparently, it’s more preferable that she die at the hands of the Nazis instead of having a chance to live in the free world and be a fan of Justin Bieber.
But never-mind those inconvenient truths like the fact that her room was full of Hollywood starlets of her time, we have a pop singer’s intelligence to insult!
Much love,
Zen Politics
“I am a Belieber” – Published October 6, 2013
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