And maybe most uncomfortably, the film surfaces why. There’s a clip near the end of the film in which a talking head on Fox News decries Rogers and the “narcissistic society he gave birth to.” I briefly expected the audience at my screening to riot, because it was such a plainly stupid response to what we’d just seen. Fred Rogers believed in radical kindness. Focus Features But it’s also a good example of the confusion that marks public discourse today, in which kindness far too often is decried as weakness
Source: Won’t You Be My Neighbor review: a subversive Fred Rogers documentary – Vox