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by qwertthrowway 882 days ago
Theo problem is when you say bad things about someone that isn’t true it’s called slander and if it’s true then it’s backbiting. It’s not good in general to malign people or put a negative look on them without a good reason.
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aidenn0 882 days ago
The original comment said nothing about Fred Rogers. It was "I ... always found Mr. Rogers himself creepy"

Furthermore it induced a few interesting replies about his style of looking directly into the camera and long-takes, and parasocial relationships (to be fair, it also induced a single reply with someone implying that while Mr. Rogers probably isn't a pedophile, "better safe than sorry").

As an aside, I'm somewhat surprised nobody's mentioned the puppets yet; lots of people find puppets creepy.

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pimlottc 882 days ago
> The original comment said nothing about Fred Rogers. It was "I ... always found Mr. Rogers himself creepy"

That’s pretty passive aggressive. Wouldn’t you be offended if someone said that about you? “I never said you were stupid, I just /think/ of you as stupid.”

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aidenn0 881 days ago
Firstly, I can say that I definitely would not be offended, since people have said that about me, and I wasn't offended.

Secondly, we are talking about a performer while performing[1] Sharing personal reactions (both positive and negative) to public performances is, IMO, well within the bounds of polite discourse.

1: This is harder to distinguish when the actor's name is "Fred Rogers" and the role is "Mr. Rogers," but the original comment referred to "Mr. Rogers" rather than Fred Rogers and used the phrase "especially while singing," so I think it's a safe assumption here.

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