I must confess that until today I had never really listened to the lyrics of Maryland, My Maryland, the official state song of the eponymous state. If called upon to sing along, I just mumbled the words to O Tannenbaum, and no-one seemed to mind.
Turns out the real words, taken from a nine-stanza poem written in 1861 by James Ryder Randall are the latest target of the cultural jihadists,
because they are (rather obviously) pro-Confederate and anti-Union, therefore offensive to snowflakes, SJWs and all right-thinking [left-thinking, shurely! Ed.] people. So it comes to pass that the University of Maryland marching band has been ordered to stop playing the state's official song, while officials "evaluate if it is consistent with the values" of the school.
Ed. has found a short (under two minutes) video so that you can see the problem. The word "despot" refers, of course, to Abraham Lincoln. But the phrase "Northern scum" is only included in the full-length version. Anyway, the band just played it. They didn't sing it. So what's wrong with that? How about if we all agree to just hum along? Another problem solved by Walt!
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