"This is an article about Fred Rogers."
(inserts random paragraph about incels, misogyny and the fear of being shot at for being a woman)
Talk about a big-lipped alligator moment.
(inserts random paragraph about incels, misogyny and the fear of being shot at for being a woman)
Talk about a big-lipped alligator moment.
> Visiting the archives of Canada’s public broadcaster this past May was more complex than usual due to increased security in the building. Five days after Alek Minassian had killed ten people and injured multiple others by driving a white van through a crowd, Canadaland reported that a post had appeared on the Incels.me message board with the subject, “[Serious] our next task: shooting up CBC headquarters.”
Rogers (I learned from this article) got his start on the CBC.
Honestly this was clearly the intention just from reading the paragraph in question.
The point of the piece: Mr. Rogers provides a model of maleness and masculinity that works especially well for boys and men who feel scared, alienated, or attacked by society. This model, rooted in love, contrasts with other models for that subpopulation that ground out in anger or hate.
In other words, the very thesis of the piece is that there is a salient relationship between incels/mysogyny and Mr. Rogers: the latter provides an alternative to the former.
The generic term being non-sequitur I would say.
Mr. Rogers is a hero who directly addressed exactly the issues facing us today, and people are figuratively sticking their fingers in their ears and refusing to listen.