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Posted on 04/12/2026 8:55:45 AM PDT by V_TWIN
A viral TikTok video is sparking widespread mockery after a user declared that maintaining a nice, manicured grass lawn is “racist” and “based in white supremacy.” The clip, posted earlier this week by TikTok user @softchaoschannel (who goes by JustJaim and uses she/they pronouns), opens with the bold claim, “I can’t stop thinking about how grass lawns are racist and like, based in white supremacy.”
She continued, “If that doesn’t make sense, that’s okay, I guess. It seems really obvious to me. It’s really upsetting. Bring back weeds, bring back clover yards. Can anything just be okay in its natural state, or do we just have to whitewash everything, make it a competition and use it as a sign of your worth as a human being in society? Like, can we just have weeds?”
The activist frames perfectly kept lawns as symbols of “control,” “dominating nature,” and a “uniform, colonial aesthetic,” tying them to broader accusations of systemic racism and suggesting that letting yards grow wild with weeds is the more enlightened choice.
The video quickly spread across platforms, including X, where it was amplified by accounts like Libs of TikTok and drew immediate ridicule.
Commenters fired back with lines such as “I’ve never heard my lawn say an unkind word about anyone” and “This lady is just venting ‘cause she got a letter from her HOA.”
This latest theory is not entirely new, as the Post Millennial pointed out.
A 2020 Sierra Club article noted that young people on TikTok and other platforms were already sharing “anti-lawn memes” that criticized grass yards for lacking biodiversity, requiring excessive water and chemicals, and allegedly symbolizing “racial exclusion” through historical HOA rules that once barred sales to people of color.
In the grand tradition of progressive activism finding racism in the most ordinary corners of daily life, this claim fits right in.
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Never in the history of this great country have so many people needed to GET A LIFE.
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Crazy white liberal woman.
Black people don’t cut their lawns??
first world problems ...
“”Black people don’t cut their lawns??””
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The false presumption is that blacks don’t have lawns and that they either live in apartment hovels, ghettos or are homeless, living on the streets. This looney, SFB’s leftie is being racist and is too stupid to realize it. Too bad a weedeater couldn’t clean up what subs for her brains in there. That lot is a lost cause.
If these morons ruled the nation, even golf courses would be declared “racist and evil”... as a mostly rich/white sport. In fact, considering Trump’s affinity for golf courses, I’m surprised the leftie loons haven’t already gone there.
I thought LEGALIZE WEED meant something else.
How would you like to have this nut job for your nextdoor neighbor
Back in the day I grew an immaculate lawn to annoy my liberal neighbor who avoided pesticides and fertilizers. He had a patchy brown lawn next to my vibrant healthy green lawn. The nice thing about the lot was my backyard rose up like a berm. Looking out the window, even from the second floor, the lawn looked like a green wall. My liberal neighbor put in desert grasses and plants. Looked like shit.
Well, my front yard is mostly sand with some weeds (more weeds after a rain), but not because I fear being called a racist. Rather, it’s because I live in the Sonoran Desert, and don’t care to put in the expense and effort to maintain a green lawn.
There’s a guy about a mile away who keeps a very nice lawn and yard, but I’m glad I don’t pay his water bill.
Need to add CWLM to the LGBT moniker.
So anything that’s bad or chaotic, or ugly is (fill in the blank) supremacy?
Why would someone want to be proud and advocate for disrepair, ugliness, and filth?
“In May 1899, John Albert Burr, an African American inventor from Maryland, patented very innovative technology that is still being used today in modern-day lawn mowers. He did not invent the first lawn mower, but he did design a lawn mower with traction wheels and rotary blades that would not get easily clogged up from grass and weeds. He also drastically improved the lawn mower’s design making it possible to mow closer to buildings and wall edges.
“All in all, Burr held over 30 U.S. patents for lawn care and agricultural inventions.”
Tik Toke - America’s new Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s where all the morons with unresolved mental issues hang out until they die young or commit suicide.
My gosh, but ALL DEMOCRATS ARE SO UGLY!
My neighbor is half black and he shames me in lawn cutting. Sometimes twice a week in the rainy spring and fall seasons. Like a golf course fairway.
“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
First it was abortion, now it is weeds!
Scotty, beam me up!!!
Every racial group has a dysfunctional minority.
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