# Latest Sign of the Apocalypse: Bieber at the Anne Frank House **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2013, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709 "2013-04-14T20:33:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DataX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DataX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DataX)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/21 "2013-04-15T01:31:44Z")
Not really seeing the issue. Perhaps not artfully phrased, but how many of his fans now know who Anne Frank and may learn something. He is a little full of himself - hard not to be when you are literally chased by mobs of women. He could have gone other places in that country… ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/22 "2013-04-15T01:38:39Z")
Just when you think Brad Paisley and LL Cool J have the lock on Celebrities Completely Failing to Understand Systemic Violence and Cruelty Inflicted on Racial Minorities By White Supremacists Of the Month … If Bieber’s publicist has a lick of sense, there will be a statement to the effect that his intention was to point out that in a just world, Anne Frank would have been just another teenager with nothing to worry about other than singing into a hairbrush along with mindless pop songs. My gut feeling, though, is that the most sophisticated thought he had during his visit to the Anne Frank House was how her experience related to his own fandom. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/23 "2013-04-15T01:53:35Z")
[Kim Kardashian on the Armenian Genocide](http://youtu.be/eOlIcCHEP1o) Every airhead celebutante should be assigned a historical disaster. There’s no shortage of either. If you’re doing your initial tryout on American Idol, you should say “I’m going to sing ‘Mamma Knows Best’ by Jessie J, and this is for those Australian nurses machinegunned by the Japanese in 1942.” ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/24 "2013-04-15T04:03:48Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > He may look like he’s 12, but he’s 19. That’s not a “kid”. Yes it is. I don’t know far you are from 19, but looking back, me and most of my friends were dumb about lots of things. Everyone expects him to be…something, I’m not even sure what, but he’s a typical teenager. As he should be. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/25 "2013-04-15T04:12:56Z")
Color me in the not seeing the outrage seats. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/26 "2013-04-15T04:14:20Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > Color me in the not seeing the outrage seats. Beige, then. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/27 "2013-04-15T04:27:25Z")
Funny, when I was at the Anne Frank house, I didn’t sign the guest book, because I couldn’t think of anything profound enough. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/28 "2013-04-15T04:49:47Z")
> [@](#): > > “Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber,” Bieber wrote. What, like the Nazis needed more reasons to want her dead? ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/29 "2013-04-15T04:50:37Z")
But considering how long he’s been in the business, he should know better from a PR standpoint. It might not be “OMIGAWD, THAT’S SO OFFENSIVE!!!” but it is disgustingly ignorant, and egocentric. 19 is old enough to know better. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/30 "2013-04-15T04:53:21Z")
This just in… Justin Bieber visits mass grave at Nagasaki leaving written momento: “Too bad you don’t didn’t survive to have great grandchildren. They would have loved my concert tonight.” ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/31 "2013-04-15T06:12:06Z")
Anne Frank was a fan of the movie stars of her time. Her father would give her fan cards (like baseball cards, often a bonus with a pack of cigarettes or something like that) with photographs of the stars that she would hang on her bedroom wall. So yeah, I could see if 13 year old Anne Frank was alive today, she’d have posters of her favourite pop stars and actors of this time up on her bedroom walls. Sure, quote Bieber’s statement out of context and it’s outrageous. The only thing I find more outrageous about this incident is that I find myself posting to a thread about this guy and actually defending him. THAT is just WRONG!! And keep offa my grass, you goddamn kids!!! ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/32 "2013-04-15T07:19:52Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > If Bieber’s publicist has a lick of sense, there will be a statement to the effect that his intention was to point out that in a just world, Anne Frank would have been just another teenager with nothing to worry about other than singing into a hairbrush along with mindless pop songs. Honestly, if you need Bieber’s publicist to point this out to you (because, let’s face it, this is obviously what he meant), you shouldn’t be allowed near a computer. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/33 "2013-04-15T08:08:29Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Funny, when I was at the Anne Frank house, I didn’t sign the guest book, because I couldn’t think of anything profound enough. You don’t sign things for a living though. There are so many ways they could’ve spun this vaguely non-story and they went with ugly. What I hate is he has played ball with TMZ for years and they suddenly pull this crap. This is Perez Hilton low. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/34 "2013-04-15T08:39:41Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > That boy, I say, that boy’s about as sharp as a box full of wet feathers. (Then there was his “Sixteenth Chapel” comment on Letterman.) Watch that clip and note Bieber’s total lack of reaction when Dave says “Canadian high school.” The sarcasm goes completely over his head. The nimrod hasn’t a clue that he’s been put down like few others. Dumb as a stick. Face it, douchebag: “Grampa” Letterman is a thousand times cooler than you are or ever will be. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/35 "2013-04-15T08:52:30Z")
They don’t have high school in Canada. How is he supposed to react? (Sixteenth Chapel though - OUCH! Even I will give up that one.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/36 "2013-04-15T08:58:58Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > They don’t have high school in Canada. How is he supposed to react? Odd. My daughter is graduating from one this year, though they do refer to themselves as a “collegiate school for the arts.” I fail to see the distinction. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/37 "2013-04-15T09:27:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > I fail Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/38 "2013-04-15T09:37:14Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > Exactly. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MfB1VdNWtEU/maxresdefault.jpg "exactly") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfB1VdNWtEU) ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/39 "2013-04-15T09:42:01Z")
Did he finish school? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2013, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/latest-sign-of-the-apocalypse-bieber-at-the-anne-frank-house/655709/40 "2013-04-15T09:49:25Z")
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