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.
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It do?
It need a blog if it do that.
Yo.
My “lawn” is more like a dandelion farm, but I keep it mowed.
Same here.
These lawns were planted and maintained through the back-breaking labor of enslaved people.
I call my task the ‘weekly harvesting of the crab’.
My yard is dead, a symbol of urban decay. It hasn’t rained in over two months in East Texas.
I posted it in the blog category, you silly idiot.
The film’s first minute summarizes the environmental concerns:
More water is used to irrigate grass than any other plant in the country.
Americans use millions of pounds of pesticides to keep grass weed- and bug-free.
Lawnmowers pollute the air and cause climate change.
Lawns are environmentally useless.
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And homeowners have gun ports covering their lawns, for ‘gophers’, you know.
After seeing the three foot diamond back dead in the road near the local “native grasses” area, I’ll gladly embrace the racist, environmentally evil lawn mowing.
Most of my yard is a hay field, but I do, sometimes mow the area by the road and around the buildings. That keeps the critters a bit further from the house. Keeping weeds down also helps the hay field. Didn’t know the added benefit was that it signals I’m a racist!
It is a twofer, keeping the property up for various reasons and being a racist!
Mine actually isn’t that great, so leave me alone.
This is the first summer in 30 years when my lawn didn’t burn brown.
First cauliflower, now lawns. I’ve got a bad feeling that peas and carrots are soon to be declared veggies of white nationalism.
I feel good now because I never apply fertilizer or pesticide to my lawn, I pay “TrueGreen” to do it.
I can’t imagine being so miserable in my existence that I have to troll “blog posts” and make constant comments about them. It’s pretty sad. I hope he keeps his cats fed.
Lawns are racist and so is stick housing... Mud huts are the only way to go..
Better yet, make the huts out of dung bricks and burn dung inside them for warmth. If yer not having lung problems, yer a White supremacist!
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