Posted on 05/21/2019 12:08:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Alexandria says growing cauliflower in community gardens is ‘colonial’
Here she is, talking total hogwash => https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=87&v=PUJ6o4tqwyM
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said yesterday that growing cauliflower in community gardens is part of the “colonial” attitudes that her Green New Deal will stamp out.
The New York Democrat, who introduced the proposal to tackle climate change by radically transforming the economy, posted a series of Instagram videos filmed in her home state talking about community gardens as a “core component” of her proposal.
“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” she said as she filmed a community garden in the Bronx.
“So that’s really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it’s an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, ‘Why do you need to do that? That’s too hard.’”
“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
“That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.”
I’m having salmon tonight, with potato and colonial, I mean cauliflower. And both those vegetables are still smarter than AOC.
AOC: culturally familiar to the community
She is so racist......
Don’t know about yucca. But yuca is what you get when you chew on chopsticks for about 30 minutes, then try to eat it.
AOC “Great News! My IQ test came back negative”
More here: https://imgflip.com/i/2uy78l
The cauliflower caucus.
Why would anyone chew on chopsticks????
Nice picture of the democrat side of the House...
Amazon has 752 listings for cauliflower.
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cauliflower&crid=3NSLDCYXCNTXZ&sprefix=cauli%2Caps%2C149&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_6_5
Chewed up wood is what yuca tastes like. ;o)
Well I’ll be a suck egg mule!
Oh....OK, I see...LOL
“That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.”
You know, I was thinking that EXACT same thing the other day while re-reading Heart of Darkness. Earlier environmental movements—such as the movement to recycle the tusks of dead elephants into ivory for decorations—WERE very Colonial.
Do I need /s?
“I think you grow what matches your local growing season, average temperature, average rainfall, and who’s putting the work in and what do they want. “
Well, If I have to plant a ‘community garden’, I growing COTTON!
...old time hippie communes. They might have been naive about some things, but they knew how to grow a garden.
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Knowing wasn’t the same as doing.
Many were weed plots with a few hardy surviving edibles.
Weeding and similar chores always seemed to fall on a few members, while the others had “more important things to do”, like writing manifestos or getting high.
The pot, though....the pot was meticulously groomed. And, of course, someone had to sample it because, marketing.
The word was: “4 acres and a divorce, but at least no one had to can the damn stuff.”
Ever been to a Farmer’s Market? They know how to grow veggies, trust me. In fact, in my experience the Granola types don’t much care for drugs, especially pot. Potheads usually can’t grow weed anyway, too much work.
I _am_ an old hippie. I KNOW the people at my local farmer’s market and most are capitalists, not the commune types....besides being way younger. They are farmers who have adopted some of the 70s/New Age style.
And of course you are joking about potheads not growing weed? You understand why it is called *weed*? Although, I do know a guy who got so paranoid about growing, he stopped smoking. Another one inherited a fortune, so he hired out the work, including the grooming.
Looking at the marijuana stock touts, I’d guess most of the world smokes the stuff. It’s like beer, now.
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