then the boy would love mine, mostly dandelions
Posted on 09/01/2019 2:44:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Once again, a traditional symbol has become a target of those who attack private property rights and the American way of life. In this case, the symbol is the lawn – those closely-cropped grassy areas that surround most single-family homes. The basis for the attack is very typically environmentalism and racism.
The messenger is an article in The New York Times. Its title is unassuming enough – “The Great American Lawn: How the Dream was Manufactured.” The vehicle is an embedded seven-minute film, produced by David Botti.
The Attack
The film’s first minute summarizes the environmental concerns:
Later, Mr. Botti makes the link to racism. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson planted large lawns at their estates. These lawns were planted and maintained through the back-breaking labor of enslaved people.
The film furthers the racist narrative by asserting that mechanization made lawns available for the “privileged masses” about the year 1870 with manual lawnmowers. Then it fast-forwards to returning G.I.’s from World War II who settled in the suburbs with green lawns – unless they were black. The narrator condemns “a symbol of an American dream that is recognized by most, but only attainable to some.”
A Rebuttal
Such attacks are simplistic in their reasoning. Like all plants, grass absorbs carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. Thus, they can serve an environmental function.
(Excerpt) Read more at returntoorder.org ...
Get off my lawn.
Does that make me a person of color because of all the lawns I mowed????
Watered? Fertilized? What kind of crazy talk is that? Ours was fenced off of a cow pasture so it is endophyte-free tall fescue. Tough stuff. Keep it mowed and it looks OK. Burn it down, rut it up, it still comes back. Lawns and trees help keep the house naturally cool.
F these retarded morons.
I want to see a study done by the Open Borders crowd in the Democrat Party and their cohorts in the media that tells us how much more carbon is released simply by ALLOWING millions of illegals into our country.
Think about it. Back in their own shithole countries they probably aren't contributing much of anything to the total carbon output that Lefties are so concerned about.
Ah, but allow them to enter the US and what happens? These illegal aliens now have access to cars, homes, jobs, carbon, carbon, CARBON!!!! GALORE!! So just how much more carbon are these people from their shithole countries now contributing to our atmosphere compared to if they had simply stayed home?
My lawn here in Arizona is ... rock ... I suppose that’s racist as well
bkmk
I’m glad I live in a nice Midwestern town. We don’t worry about our lawns being politically incorrect. We just keep em mowed and edged and nice and thick and green around here.
then the boy would love mine, mostly dandelions
When they start in on golf courses, I’ll hit them with my cane.
I don’t need or have a cane but it seems like a useful, anti-liberal thing to carry around.
White is the new untouchable. Anything associated with white people is as immoral as they are, per the new liberal moral code.
There’s many areas of the country where water shortage isn’t an issue. More often then not where I live flooding is the issue.
We could build reservoirs and aqueducts like the Romans to supply others with the water they need.
My wife found one of those a couple weeks ago while helping her mom de-clutter her house. I wanted it but it was beyond restoration
LOL!!!
Can you update me on cauliflower? Were you serious?
I fought the lawn and the lawn won.
What to do?
“A Rebuttal”
Is a rebuttal really needed for such obvious drivel??
By rebutting it you’re giving it a modicum of respectability. Pissing on it is the right response!
I’d rather read blog posts than mindless bitching about blog posts.
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