User blog comment:I'm Blue daba dee daba die/Pure Good Proposal: Mister Rogers/@comment-2059440-20191009191207

Rogers tackled issues such as fear of disabilities and racial division, both as a character and a person - now if we purely remove his real self (who was just as pure) his acts on the show alone are of unconditional love, he did everything purely because he knew it to be good and everyone was special to him.. he would never harm anything and cherised not just life but the things that make life worthwhile..

true wickedness is often said to not just be the destruction of life but the destruction of things that make life worthwhile, so too true kindness is not just protecting life but spreading awareness of things that make life worthwhile for everyone.

it is impossible not to go a little into a political subject here but I'll show you one of his most famous examples of unconditional love - in the show he had a neighbor who was African American, he never brought up race ever and had Rogers on the show not just conversing with this gentleman but also helping to dry off his feet.. this sounds odd to modern people but the reason is actually very profound - he did this to show that humans are humans, no matter the color of the skin or social background.. he put great risk in doing this but made sure to do it, so while the show is fiction it is a rare media that transcends a lot of things.

Rogers also made a point to cast the African American neighbor as a police officer, again to try and weaken horrors of reality - thus Mister Rogers, the character, was used as a peaceful means to try and topple very real evils : even if we ignore all that (which would be foolish as it defeats the whole purpose) Mister Rogers was created and shaped specifically to be a guardian and mentor to *anyone* who needed his company.. that should speak for itself.