one reason "woke cancel culture" is often ridiculed, especially on state history matters, NCD, is that they often even know less shit than politicians about the history and do stuff like this, tear down statues honoring abolitionists who died fighting slavery

https://globalnews.ca/news/7101452/madison-wisconsin-hans-christian-heg/

edit to add: if he was an old timey dude, they don't really care what he did, must have been bad in some way, they want to start allover with year zero, they know better how to run the world, the past was all colonial and fucked it up (Khmer Rouge style)

I posted a piece that explained why minority interests often get their way, e.g. why the few with peanut allergies prevailed over the majority without to have peanuts banned on planes, because those with allergies care much more and it makes a life threatening difference, while the rest don't really care that much, so the few who care for whatever reason can get these changes. But no, most people don't care about the Maryland lyrics, nor do they care about the slave rebellion references to the 3rd verse of our national anthem that's sung at so many sports events, mostly because they don't even realize there's more than one, and if they do, they still likely don't care.