Two-time Super Bowl Champion Tony Dungy is feeling the weight of the woke media crashing down upon his this week. The former Indianapolis Colts Head Coach announced that he will be attending the March For Life on January 20, saying that he is going “to support those unborn babies who don’t have a voice.”
Tomorrow Lauren and I will be in Washington DC attending the 2023 March For Life. It will be my first time at the March and I’m looking forward to joining my friend @BenjaminSWatson and thousands of others who will be there to support those unborn babies who don’t have a voice. pic.twitter.com/4rOBEbdsgP
— Tony Dungy (@TonyDungy) January 19, 2023
Almost immediately after this news got out, Dave Zirin of The Nation wrote a deranged article about the how the “Right-Wing Zealot” Tony Dungy is and how evil the NFL and NBC must be for allowing Dungy to remain on air as a broadcaster.
The March For Life describes its mission on its website as one of love and compassion, saying:
“We promote the beauty and dignity of every human life by working to end abortion—uniting, educating, and mobilizing pro-life people in the public square.”
Zirin, however, has his own description of what the March is all about, writing:
“I’ve covered the March for Life in Washington, D.C., for years. It is a madhouse of right-wing gadflies, disinformation addicts, Qanon adherents, and, most disturbingly, class after class of teenage and tween-age children dragged there by teachers who abuse their authority in ways that would make Ron DeSantis smirk.”
Now, reading this, you might still think that the article could take a turn and become a reasonable discussion about whether what Dungy is doing is the right thing, but Zirin blows any hope out the water by comparing the former coach’s ideology with that of domestic terrorists:
“This is a staggering indictment of the politics the NFL and the network’s partners allow and the kind that they condemn. When someone like, gee, I don’t know, Colin Kaepernick steps up and kneels down to end police violence and racial inequity, he becomes a pariah. Meanwhile, Dungy is held up as a deeply religious man and nearly a patron saint of the league. Dungy has used his devoutness as a cover for his anti-gay rhetoric and sharing platforms with unapologetic bigots. But what in the world is “religious” about bearing false witness against teachers and children with a lie that has had real-life repercussions? Every bomb threat leveled against children’s hospitals, every physical assault, bears the fingerprints of these lies. Dungy should feel shame. Instead, he is emboldened, ready to take the stage at a rally that’s been a blunt instrument for robbing people of their rights to privacy and the rights to their own bodies.”
Of course, all of this stems from the Left’s belief that any narrative other than exactly their own must be silenced, for fear of others falling victim to right-wing lies. Ian Miller over at Outkick concisely summed that up:
“That’s the modern left in a nutshell; freedom of speech for me, not for thee.
Conform, or be cancelled. Tony Dungy refuses to conform, and so “left wing zealots” and “disinformation addicts” like Zirin want him to be cancelled.”
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