All through the 1990s Mr Rogers was seen by adults as a hilarious target to mock as everything corny and cringey about old school children's TV The tide didn't start turning until he died in 2003, and even then the sheer devotion to him in the late 2010s would've been weirdhttps://twitter.com/blanketboat/status/1236835096541290497 …
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The Fox and Friends clip people pass around where they call Mr Rogers an "evil man who ruined a generation of children" was trolling, yes, and you can see Shep Smith get super pissed at everyone else in it But in 2001, when it aired, it wasn't that hot a take honestly
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It was relatively common including among people who saw themselves as left-of-center to sneer at "political correctness" and "the cult of self-esteem" and celebrate the idea of being tough and speaking your mind and so forth Everyone who was cool liked South Park
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The pendulum swung back REALLY HARD on that one and I honestly think it's striking in hindsight how predictable it would be that we'd eventually get so poisoned by irony and cruelty our whole generation would go desperately searching for an icon of earnest compassion in the past
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Replying to @arthur_affect
FWIW I think the fact that the people we put in this position culturally in the UK pretty much all turned out to have a history of sexual abuse of children is part of what's caused our collective psyche to go into a tailspin
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Yeah there's a lot of black comedy in how the reason Rogersmania exploded with Won't You Be My Neighbor in 2018 was "He's been dead for 15 years and if someone was gonna MeToo him it'd have happened by now"
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Wasn't "he really was like that in reality" more or less the core theme of WYBMN as well?
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More or less And it's kind of telling that one of the cast members of Mr Rogers Neighborhood who strongly disagreed with that take refused to participate in the documentary
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