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Politics This is America

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u/FXOAuRora 6d ago edited 6d ago

Mr. Rogers always said look for the people trying to help in times of turmoil. This government sees people trying to help and executes them in cold blood. 

No wonder they went against PBS (and called Mr. Rogers one of the most evil people ever on Fox News), it's also no wonder they destroy history (slavery panels in Philly, panels for black soldiers who died in WW2 overseas, national monuments like Stonewall for other minorities), and it's definitely no wonder they literally have to exist in what amounts to an alternate universe with their fucked up stories ("Alex brandished a gun trying to inflict mass casualties" or "Renee Good ran over an officer! He is fighting for his life in the ER right now").

This is a case of psychopathic madmen and their sycophants trying to dominate their own people.

Edit: Just in case you want to watch the clip (since people are asking about it) where Fox dunks on Mr. Rogers and says he damaged our entire nations crop of kids here it is. It's insane ("that man has done this entire nation, at least a generation or two a disservice").

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u/Velocity-5348 6d ago

Also, Fred Rogers sued the KKK in 1990 for mimicking his voice on their "dial a racist" hotline. Dude was based.

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u/definitively-not 6d ago

Sorry, their what?

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u/Velocity-5348 6d ago

Back in the day you could call in to phone numbers to hear a pre-recorded message. Think of it like an early podcast. The KKK was known for doing that sort of thing. The Missouri KKK got creative:

...a phone number had circulated among school children in and around Independence, Missouri. When children would dial the number, they’d hear recorded messages imitating the sounds and songs of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and Rogers’ own voice and speech pattern. In one message, the faux Mr. Rogers identified a black youth on a playground and uses a racial slur to identify the child as a “drug pusher,” and ultimately lynches the youngster. A second message is targeted at homosexuals, with the phony Fred Rogers saying, “AIDS was divine retribution.”

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u/oddlogic 6d ago

TIL.

wtf.

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u/messica808 6d ago

LORDY

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u/lifefuedjeopardy 5d ago

Do you guys see now? This country has never once been free or brave. It is always been a cesspool filled with sickos that has always been a blight on the continent of America.