I think that's just the thing with Western "leftists/liberals". She obviously did a lot of good things as you pointed out. The problem is that its always with an "America first" bend. So she may have really spoken to the American working class in a way you wouldn't expect, or a feminist, or been good on LGBTQ+ issues, but that all ends when it comes to practicing anti-imperialism. Suddenly she doesn't look all that different from all the raving maniacs that claim the same culture she did.

So I get where you're coming from when you say you feel a bit uncomfortable about her legacy. I never really had much of a connection to her, but I can pick out any number of seemingly good people who also fall flat on their face when it comes to anti-imperialism (or race/religious issues). It gets even more awkward when you get a bunch of people who profess to being "anti-imperialists" getting mad at these things being pointed out.

Am I saying Dolly Parton is cancelled? No, though that may just be cowardice on my part. If I think about it more then maybe I will. But, making it less about one dead woman who took some good stands and bad ones, it’s gotten me grappling more with how perplexed I’ve felt at liberals and even left-leaning people — not just white, black too! — leaning into the cowboy country wild western aesthetic. When people were falling over themselves about Lil Nas X fusing country with hip-hop and queering it, my only reaction was “Meh — what in country can be disentangled from white supremacy? Why would you want it?” Everything cowboy-ey is tinged with slavery and genocide to me, and it’s weird to see anyone desiring it at all. If you want some American Southwest desert culture that’s cooler, there were and are people living there who weren’t genocidal colonizing slavers! I cannot shake this feeling that fetishization of “country” is inherently white supremacist, even when queer poc do it, even when they obviously don’t mean it that way.

A couple of weeks ago I had talked a bit about this in general terms. Too many people feel the need to appropriate an image of America's past and try a put a more POC positive spin on it and its just not all that helpful. Hanging on to the white supremacist legacy of America and "reimagining/sanatizing" it is only serving the very institution they believe they are defying.