Some Douchebag Changed ‘O Canada’ To ‘All Lives Matter’ At An MLB Game

Look, there’s one sure-fire way to get people riled up, and that’s to take it upon yourself to change the lyrics of a National Anthem while you’re singing it.

And if you happen to change those lyrics to make a political statement, it’s gonna get people *really* bloody steamed.

And if that political statement just-so-happens to be the current catch-cry of the ignorant and mostly racist, then you’re better off getting ahead of the mob by bashing yourself just to save them the trouble.

The MLB All-Star game is currently happening in the sunny city of San Diego (the whale’s vagina, colloquially), where the best of the American League and the best of the National League are duking it out for bragging rights.

Prior to the start of the game, as is American tradition, the teams lined up, hats over hearts, for the American national anthem. The ole’ Star Spangled Banner. Fitting, given the game of baseball is often referred to as “America’s pastime.”

But, owing to the existence of the Toronto Blue Jays, the Canadian national anthem was also sung before the game. And this is where it all went bung in an enormous hurry.

Canadian/American-based vocal group The Tenors were enlisted to handle the duty of singing ‘O Canada,’ which is usually a fairly uneventful, straightforward task.

Only on this occasion, one member of the group took it upon himself to alter the lyrics of *CANADA’S NATIONAL ANTHEM* to include a reference to All Lives Matter: the ignorant, reactionary, inflammatory phrase that crops up every time the phrase “Black Lives Matter” is uttered, almost always by people who don’t fully understand the issue they’re discussing.

Where normally the song should go “With glowing hearts/we see thee rise,” it was instead sung as “We’re all brothers and sisters/all lives matter.“

Yep.

Yikes. As thunderously stupid a decision as you could possibly ever see in that situation.

Changing the lyrics of O Canada to support “All Lives Matter” is an incredibly efficient and effective way to piss off literally everyone

— Greg Balloch (@GregBalloch) July 13, 2016

o canada
our home and native land
i’m not racist but hear me out a minute

— Scaachi (@Scaachi) July 13, 2016

I don’t mind the 4 Tenors changing the words to O Canada so long as they don’t mind me changing their name to the 4 Morons

— Bill Hayes (@billhayes226) July 13, 2016

Canadians watching O Canada at #AllStarGame pic.twitter.com/gmQ8T3JZ3F

— Sunil Johal (@JohalSunil) July 13, 2016

What’s impressive with the Tenors’ rendition of “O Canada” is how they added a racist verse while preserving the misogynistic one.

— Thierry (@tcote) July 13, 2016

??O Canada
Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams
Cops aren’t racist
It’s only in your dreams
Well actually, this is about
ethics in anthems now…??

— Traptorized Frza (@TheRealFRZA) July 13, 2016

Maybe next time just… I dunno… sing the damned anthem as is.