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By Humanizing the Children of Gaza, Miss Rachel Is Following in the Footsteps of Her Hero Mr. Rogers

The popular children's entertainer is courting controversy but also channeling of America's greatest figures

The New York Times covered that backlash earlier this month, noting that some advocacy groups and individuals aligned with Israel have attacked her for posting about Gaza’s children, and one fringe organization even baselessly accused her of being financed by Hamas. In the past decade, Americans had lived through the Vietnam War, multiple high-profile assassinations of leading politicians and civil rights leaders, enormous nonviolent protests, and massive riots that rocked America’s inner cities. He didn’t come up with some 500-page report about how to prevent the urban race riots that had terrified white people into the suburbs, integrate communities through the thorny use of policies like school busing, or end racial divisions in America once and for all.

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