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Celebrities eventually sell out their values (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/facepalm@lemmy.world

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[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 34 points 2 months ago

Marc Brown in conjunction with PBS inspired 4 generations of children to learn tolerance, respect, and community. The good this man has done is arguably more far-reaching than Mr Rogers himself

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

gestures at America if he's been at it for 4 generations then what's all this?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 2 months ago

He got 2 in 3 of us. The other 1/3rd I'd rather not talk about

[-] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

1 in 3. A third decided to be bystanders in the fact of abject bigotry.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

Well that's a fine example of your "tolerance, respect, and community"

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

Perfect is the enemy of good

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

For four generations we've been associating tolerance, respect and community with childish cartoon characters; something to be outgrown.

[-] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

I got about as much tolerance left as Bugs Bunny.

[-] xxam925@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 months ago

You are probably on to something here. We shouldn’t have tolerated everything. We shouldn’t have entertained their conspiracy theories or gave them a seat at the table at all.

We will have to figure out a way to do better.