@cptshazam: They are Americans. The US school system might not tell youngsters who lost Vietnam, but it does instill a disdain of British royalty.
As a Canadian, I'll join you in pouring out a pint for Lizzy.
As also a Canadian, the last residential school closed in 1996, 43 years after she became queen. If she was concerned about dignity in death she probably could've spoken up about the genocide.
@franticfinesse@muttonbanditIMO it's the same as him using slurs in the song, an illustration of the difficulty of breaking out of ingrained ignorance and how the progression of the song itself is meant to mirror growth. If I heard correctly the first time he refers to Mary-Anne as "her" is when he's standing up to the preacher, while the music is building from relatively muted to a more passionate instrumental. The next time he's going to use an anti-gay slur he changes it to "f-bomb", and only uses the slur itself again in the final line- Where it's contrasted as a slur he could say that would hurt other people vs. a slur other people could say that would hurt him. I think it's an acknowledgement that growth isn't some beautiful perfect spontaneous thing, it can be ugly and unwieldy and uneven and sometimes even selfish.
Deadnaming people is shitty. Homophobic slurs are shitty. But between shitty and not-shitty is a journey that involves a lot of shittiness and I think this song is supposed to be somewhere on that midpoint. This is almost certainly going to be an agree-to-disagree thing but on balance I am glad this song happened.
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