Yes, and when Sesame Street teaches kids about sharing, it's actually promoting socialism.

[tzikeh]

Fox News blames Mister Rogers for ruining everyone born after the people on Fox News were.

They quote a "study," which is actually nothing more than an Wall Street Journal interview with a professor of finance at LSU. In the interview, the professor is thinking about the entitlement zeitgeist of students who demand A's, and says, "It just hit me. We can blame Mr. Rogers."

Here's the video from Fox & Friends in which the hosts discuss why Asian students perform much better in school than American students--it's because the Asian students didn't grow up listening to Mister Rogers tell them how wonderful and special they are.

Also, from the video of the show:

"This evil, evil man has now ruined a generation of kids."

"Instead of telling them 'you're special, you're great', why didn't he say, 'there's a lot of room for improvement, keep working on yourself'?"

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[bkwyrm.livejournal.com]

What? WHAT? Oh, you don't fuck with Mr. Rogers. Not in my house. Grrr.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

This is my reaction as well.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Yes, and when Sesame Street teaches kids about sharing, it's actually promoting socialism.

No lie, I heard that argument from an ex-classmate of mine.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

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I honestly have no response to that. Nor any appropriate icon. I just...

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[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

My reaction exactly. I just stared at them, mouth gaping open. This had been preceded by a tirade on how CTW was basically a liberal propaganda machine.

[brak666.livejournal.com]

That's why my father would never let us watch it. Also, he felt that its presentation of a happy neighborhood where everyone gets along was a scewed version of reality that we could do without.

[athena4lynn.livejournal.com]

And I suppose that means Mr Dressup, instead of promoting imagination, was promoting *GASP* homosexuality, and cross dressing?

[amy_vic.livejournal.com]

Dear Fox News,

Shut the fuck up, take you "studies" and shove them sideways, and then go die. Also, seriously? What the fuck kind of drugs are you ON to come to these kinds of "conclusions"?

Immense hatred,
Me

Wow, um...apparently my inner 6-year-old is not having any of this.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

'there's a lot of room for improvement, keep working on yourself'?"

Which is certainly true for anyone who regularly watched Fox News.

[brak666.livejournal.com]

Well, there is a bit of sense of entitlement these days. I'm not sure how much of it (if any of it) has to do with Mr. Rogers, but a lot of it has to do with parents today being pathologically incapable of allowing their children to feel bad about anything, especially not succeeding at something.

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

I have a friend of many years who fell apart at the news of Fred Rogers' passing. She had had a miserable childhood - beaten, screamed at, one time left in a department store. (She's my age, early 40s. Parents could get away with that back then.)

Aside from the presence of a caring aunt who told her that she was somebody, the one bright spot in my friend's young life was this gentle, kindly man who told her that she was special and that she made a difference. Even at a distance of decades, his demeanor still touched her.

So, yeah. This kick-in-the-teeth isn't setting particularly well in our house either. Mister Rogers made more of a positive difference in young lives than Fox News ever will, and his name will elicit fond memories long after Fox News has crumbled to dust.

[klia.livejournal.com]

I guess I didn't realize Mr. Rogers personally raised every single person who now has entitlement issues. *rolls eyes*

I'm sorry, but kids get that stuff from their parents, not from TV, and I'd bet money that the ones who demand A's saw their helicopter parents do it first.

And we all know Fox News is a bunch of fucking nimrods.

[arallara.livejournal.com]

They quote a "study," which is actually nothing more than an Wall Street Journal interview with a professor of finance at LSU.

Ahahahaha, oh Fox News, never change!

By which I mean, GET OFF THE AIR YOU LYING ASSHOLE FAKE JOURNALISTS. *sigh*

[brivinex.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHA! Fuck man. These people are crazier than I thought.
So what the fuck are we supposed to teach our kids? To fuck everyone else over? Idiots.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Interestingly, I have another tab open on ACTUAL narcissistic personality disorder. The use of the term "narcissism" this way irks me almost as much as when people use the term "spastic" out of context.

Also, Don Music disapproves of Fox and Friends.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

Fox News: Just When You Think They Couldn't Possibly Be Bigger Assholes.

Let them try to come by me and blame Mr. Rogers for anything negative. I'll show them how this particular member of that "generation of kids" can kick the shit out of them. You do not fuck with Mr. Rogers around me.

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

in which the hosts discuss why Asian students perform much better in school than American students--it's because the Asian students didn't grow up listening to Mister Rogers tell them how wonderful and special they are.

No, the reason Asian students perform much better in schools than American students is first, because they go to school more than six hours a day and year-round. They go to public school in the morning, then one or more academies/hogwans in the afternoon/night. They're studying constantly. Secondly, Asian parents, besides being more than a little overbearing in their aspirations for their children (i.e., you're growing up to become a doctor and that's it) don't tolerate a lot of misbehavior. Asian kids, in general, are better behaved, and thus easier to teach.

Just saying, from what I've experienced working in Korea and teaching Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian (well, half-Indian) kids is that they're not lazy. Nothing whatsoever to do with Mr. Rogers (who actually scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid).

[fragilistikal.livejournal.com]

"Instead of telling them 'you're special, you're great', why didn't he say, 'there's a lot of room for improvement, keep working on yourself'?"

Uhm, maybe because Mr. Rogers didn't like pushing kids to suicde.

Results 1 - 10 of about 787,000 for asian student suicide rate.
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=asian+student+suicide+rate&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8