Next Up On The PC Chopping Block: The Sound Of Music

The hills are alive … with the sound of screeching Social Justice Warriors.

It seems that “The Sounds of Music” is political correctness’ latest victim.

Why? Because there’s NAZIS in it, of course.

The principle at NYC’s famous LaGuardia High School has decided to ban all Nazi symbols during the production. You know, even though the fact that NAZIS are AFTER the Von Trapp family is a huge part of the plot.

According to NY Daily News:

The principal at the elite “Fame” school, Lisa Mars, ordered Nazi flags and symbols removed from the stage set of the beloved tale of the Von Trapp family, who fled the Nazis from their native Austria as Adolf Hitler took power, students told the Daily News.

“This is a very liberal school, we’re all against Nazis,” one sophomore performer told The News about the fuhrer furor. “But to take out the symbol is to try to erase history.

“Obviously the symbols are offensive,” he added. “But in context, they are supposed to be.”

EXACTLY.

What are they trying to prove by banning history?

Nazis existed. Are we supposed to pretend they didn’t? Should we make sure younger generations have no idea what a swastika looks like? What is the purpose of this other than erasing history? What good could possibly come from that? NEVER FORGET means AWARENESS.

In the 1965 movie starring Julie Andrews, Von Trapp patriarch Georg — as played by Christopher Plummer — famously rips the Nazi flag in half. The story was based on a memoir by Von Trapp’s daughter Maria.

How exactly do you do this WITHOUT A NAZI FLAG?!

Does the principal not get that? How is that hard to understand? Simply SHOWING Nazi symbolism in no way glorifies it. In fact, nothing shows disgust for Nazis MORE that ripping up the symbol that represents them.

It seems that at the very least, many students understand how ridiculous this all is:

The prop flags and emblems were all designed and created by the theater students at the performing arts school, but Mars had insisted they all be removed from the stage, the students claimed.

“It’s still going to be a great show,” a senior working in the production told The News. “I’m not going to say it was going to be a bad night because this happened. But it would have been better to explain the symbolism than to just take it away.”

Another student in the show groused the decision was abrupt and unjustified.

“We were rehearsing with them for a couple of days and all of a sudden she came down and said we can’t rehearse with them anymore,” the high school junior said.

Again, all so, SO stupid.

I’m glad the students see through that.

PS this song has been stuck in my head since I started writing this post, so here you go: