vapspwi
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Innocuous to you.
You're also a middle aged white dude. So it's easy to say everything is innocuous.
Trolling notwithstanding, changing "cheer" to "join" makes no sense in the context of the song. Both the sons and daughters in the verse are cheering, not participating. The proposed change is fixing a problem that doesn't actually exist in the literal text of the song.
I appreciated a comment from a GT coed on the anti- petition that talked about a "feminist" method for evaluating stuff like this by simply swapping the gender of the nouns and pronouns and seeing if the meaning changes. In this instance, the meaning doesn't change in any appreciable way if you reverse the roles of the daughter and the son.
In other words, if you support this change, your opinion is bad and you should feel bad.
JRjr