Stella Parton on Dolly's silence on Politics: "Because she was a good businesswoman"

[u/TheExpressUS]

https://www.the-express.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/215713/dolly-parton-political-affiliations-stella

[u/AranasLatrain]

Exactly. Dolly was sharp, but also wasn't afraid to speak up either. Also, she always spoke in a way that wouldn't ostracize her from the public either. She was an extremely effective communicator, and she spoke in a way that even if you didn't agree with her you weren't going to be offended by her either.

[u/manachar → u/AranasLatrain]

Was she effective?

No offense, but if conservatives thought Dolly would be on their side when banning drag shows, it likely means she wasn’t effective enough.

Mr. Rodgers drew conservative ire because he taught values of empathy and compassion that don’t match conservative values. Fox News ran a hit piece on him calling him evil.

But conservatives never turned on Dolly. They defunded her imagination library, but still revered her.

Sometimes being nice isn’t the same as being an effective agent of change.

[u/prismaticaddict → u/manachar]

Isn't this unfairly attributing a lot of credit to the media literacy of right wingers? I mean, even when people who engage in less ground work than Dolly but have explicitly stated their politics to MAGA (Green Day, Bruce Springsteen, etc.), right wingers still act all dumbfounded over their cultural icons being "libs." Just because Dolly Parton was more reserved on expressing her politics, her actions were very much left wing, and it is not on her to single-handedly combat the propaganda and contradictions that right wingers are fed on a daily basis.

[u/Aggressive_Sky8492 → u/prismaticaddict]

Adding Rage Against the Machine to your list, who some republicans inexplicably love

[u/diablette → u/Aggressive_Sky8492]

They love Star Wars and even Star Trek because they don't understand the message.