Given how easy the Internet has made it for the masses to contact politicians and celebrities, and the sheer number of unhinged weirdos and idiots, of course they've received death threats.
If Mister Rogers were alive and streaming on Twitch today, he'd probably get death threats from perverts wanting closeup shots of Henrietta Pussycat's feet.
The question is, are the threats credible?
The answer is "probably not," but law enforcement will still need to waste their time investigating, to make sure they don't let the next John Hinckley Jr. slip through.
I forgot to mention: Of course they're crying about death threats to distract from valid criticism.
If Mister Rogers were alive and streaming on Twitch today, he'd probably get death threats from perverts wanting closeup shots of Henrietta Pussycat's feet.
Probably a good thing he's dead, then. He was, by all appearances, too good for this world.
Given how easy the Internet has made it for the masses to contact politicians and celebrities, and the sheer number of unhinged weirdos and idiots, of course they've received death threats.
If Mister Rogers were alive and streaming on Twitch today, he'd probably get death threats from perverts wanting closeup shots of Henrietta Pussycat's feet.
The question is, are the threats credible?
The answer is "probably not," but law enforcement will still need to waste their time investigating, to make sure they don't let the next John Hinckley Jr. slip through.
I forgot to mention: Of course they're crying about death threats to distract from valid criticism.
Probably a good thing he's dead, then. He was, by all appearances, too good for this world.
I'm glad Carl Sagan and Fred Rogers didn't live long enough to become villains the way Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye did.
Imagine Carl Sagan saying "billions and billions… of genders" and Mister Rogers introducing Pea Nussy the Drag Queen, and despair.
I thought that Sagan was big on being an edgy atheist?
Atheist yes, edgy... not so much. He was very hippy dippy about it. "We are all made of stardust" type.
He was big on ACTUAL science, not The Science™
All I've ever heard from the people who knew him is that the Fred Rogers you saw on TV was 100% genuinely who he was.