The people who tried to cancel him, to prevent him from seeing broader popularity, saw him as a broken individual who was attempting to disrupt the smooth fabric of public complacency. Ever since Mr Rogers, we have grown up thinking that our feeling are a natural and acceptable part of being a person. Before him, we didn’t even know if love was real or manufactured in our brain. Before Mr. Rogers, it was not socially okay to cry or feel emotion.

He gave us our humanity and he was considered radical for his teaching.