Nobody is safe from the mean-spirited cancel culture mob and that includes beloved country music icon Dolly Parton.
The 75-year-old singer, actress, and businesswoman who in a career spanning over five decades has won multiple awards and endeared herself to generations of music fans was savaged by far-left website Vox in a despicably nasty hit piece that all but accuses her of being a racist.
In the piece entitled “How Dolly Parton became a secular American saint,” Vox cloaks their disgusting attack in the guise of a biographic story that recognizes her long career and popularity, but it is only a pretense for tearing her down.
Parton’s major crime according to Vox is that she was insufficiently deferential to the now-deceased former Fentanyl addict and criminal George Floyd, who became a martyr figure to the left after viral video of his fateful encounter with a Minneapolis police officer last year set off a wave of violence, looting, and mayhem that stretched from coast to coast and received the blessing of Democrats, corporations and the media.
This despite Dolly’s comments during the left’s summer of rage where she was sympathetic to the divisive message of the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter movement:
“Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!’” said Parton as sections of major cities were engulfed by flames.
Dolly Parton is in the midst of a career revival that has seen her hailed as a kind of secular country-pop saint. But there’s a dark side to Dolly’s ability to appeal to everyone at all times: https://t.co/HAueodeUja
— Vox (@voxdotcom) February 27, 2021
According to Vox:
“Parton was speaking to Billboard in July 2020 as the country was engulfed in protests following the police shooting of George Floyd. The interviewer asked her what she thought of the movement.
‘I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen,’ Parton said. ‘And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!’
This kind of deft political quasi-answer is the sort of move Parton’s been pulling her entire career. She expresses empathy rather than solidarity — she understands why people have to make themselves known, even if she’s not showing up at a protest herself — and she affirms that she loves everybody. And since she loves everybody, of course their lives matter.”
Granted that Parton didn’t get down on her hands and knees and beg for forgiveness for her white “privilege” but anything less than total fealty to BLM is completely unacceptable to Vox.
Vox huffed about her conciliatory remarks and attempt to be accomodating to both sides:
“But as Parton’s 21st-century career revival continues, viewers are willing to see more sinister undertones in her “both-sides-ism.” After all, what do we do when “both sides” includes neo-Nazis and armed insurrectionists waving Confederate flags at the Capitol?”
The author also sneers at Parton’s extensive work for charity over the years, instead choosing to trot out a litany of recycled innuendo including everything but the kitchen sink, running down her looks and ample buxom and comparing her to the “town tramp” using a series of cherry-picked exerpts from other articles.
Vox is also mightly pissed that Dolly refused to take the bait during a 2017 appearance at the Emmys with “9 to 5” costars Lilly Tomlin and “Hanoi” Jane Fonda to take a cheap shot at then-President Donald J. Trump.
Not even Parton’s contributions to the fight against COVID earned her much love from Vox:
“Dolly Parton is a brilliant artist, and she also seems to be a nice lady who is doubtless doing her best for all her many fans. But asking her to solve America’s fractured social landscape and calling her Jesus is putting a lot on her. It’s putting a lot on anyone. And Parton knows it.”
It matters nothing to the poison pen “journalists” at Vox that Parton’s career was groundbreaking for a woman in country music which should mean something for liberals but alas, the normal liberals are long gone now that the left has been consumed by hatred, especially for successful, white, heterosexual Christian women.
In a sad sign of these miserable times, even dumping on Dolly is a thing now.
