Liberal Logic
Posted on 08/05/2014 9:36:43 PM PDT by TigerClaws
t is the softly spoken radio show that provides good-natured help and advice to thousands of gardeners every week.
So regular listeners to Gardeners’ Question Time may be horrified to discover it has been accused of peddling racial stereotypes.
According to an academic, the sedate Radio 4 panel show is riddled with "racial meanings" disguised as horticultural advice.
One current presenter, Bob Flowerdew, rubbished the idea, calling it “ridiculous”, and asked whether experts on the show “should stop using Latin names to avoid offending the Romans”.
But Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, claimed the programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promoted nationalist and fascist beliefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
A couple of weeks ago someone was complaining that Thomas the Train was racist.
This has to be a parody. Talking about plant selective breeding is akin to Nazi eugenics? Does he March around I a Nazi uniform while he does? Talk about killing off all Wandering Jew plants?
Liberal Logic
Just think how unlivable this planet will be once the “progressives” take total control.
To these perpetually outraged scum bags, everything is racist. F them.
It’s all code!
“Micro aggressions.”
Look at the NBA situation. The man has a half-black girlfriend and he asks her not to show up with ‘black friends’ (notably Magic Johnson of their arch rival team) and he’s banned for life.
That’s all they got these days?
No “N-word” or ‘bred as slaves’ talk. Just some ‘don’t show up with other men to my owners’ seats’ and he’s a Nazi. This is after being NAACP man of the year and paying millions and millions of dollars to black men.
If that guy is a Nazi, then talking about weeds? Man, that’s all code talk!
He will probably be promoted at the Dept. of Sociology, which exists to produce other professors of Sociology or credentials for other loony leftists.
A Sociology degree should be a black mark on any resume for private-sector employment.
*ping*
Ruh roh .... we’ll have to be careful what we talk about on the Garden Thread!! :-)
Better lay off the watermelon talk.
Of course I have one chilling nicely right now.
LOL!
I am sure it is
apparently this story is real and not a spoof/satire
We need it to be real. We need the masses to wake up.
It is only through stories like this or the "kid suspended for eating poptart into gun shape" stories that we have any chance of getting people to recognize the madness.
I suspect the CA law that allows the boys to use the girl's locker room will be a huge benefit for us in the long run (not such a good thing for teenage girls in CA right now, though).
It will be an idiocracy
Do you have a source for that photo?
Without colleges idiots like this sociology professor (does the world really need this?) would be holding cardboard signs on street corners. “ Will blame whitey for food”
Ein Volk, Ein Reich , Ein Rosegarten
Dear...lord...god.
Ok, so according to this sociologist, gardeners discussing soil pathogens and invasive plant species are not gardeners discussing gardening, but are racist white Britons experiencing a crisis of identity in the new multicultural Britain and are trying to find an acceptable venue to express their fascist and nationalistic views?
I think the real story is that crusading political academics are unable to stomach basic reality that does not emotionally match their ingrained political leanings, and subsequently engage in knee-jerk attacks against innocuous and eminently rational apolitical discussions.
In other words, in this sociologist’s world view, there can BE no invasive plant species, because such a reality would call into question his deeply held political feelings. Much as some liberals are hostile to the concept of animal breeds or basic heredity.
So, when this progressive liberal sociologist turns on the radio one day he finds himself being ASSAULTED by evil white racist bigoted fascist nationalistic nazi gardeners complaining about Japanese Knotweed invading their gardens and killing their tomatoes — which in his mind is exactly the same thing as calling for the extermination of all untermenschen.
I quote the article, quoting another twit of an academic: “I remember back in the late 80s-early 90s when rhododendrons were seen as this huge problem, and people were talking about going out rhododendron-bashing. That was at a time when Paki-bashing was something that was all too prevalent on our streets.”
Patients running the asylum.
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