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.
These are the same dimwits who want to to go to net zero, get rid of the evil chemical companies, or all industry and corporations in general, grow our own food, and then are surprised to find out that weeds are a problem.
They have this bizarre mental picture of smiling, rosy-cheeked enviroweenies wearing flannel shirts and boots, coming out of their little organic gardens with large wicker baskets overflowing with bounteous, wholesome, robust, harvests.
They completely don’t get that, in the absence of technology, it is more like thin, undernourished, unhappy people with baskets filled with stunted, wilted, pest-infested produce that won’t last more than a meal or two.
Weeds are nature actually working against your own greenie plans of self sufficiency, and damn, it...it actually takes work, hard work, done every day, to rid yourself of them, if that is even possible.
Of course, in an ideal, meritocratic world, they are the ones who die off first because it takes at least one complete growing season for them to learn the lesson, that it sometimes takes chemicals to control weeds, pests, and vermin.
But, if they can’t leech off those who understand these things and use them without hesitation, starvation would take them out first.
Tore out the lawn and put in flower beds .
Still get weeds though , no getting around that .
Looking at some lawns one would think they were in the dandelion business .
One lawn was a sea of yellow flowers , over 24 hrs they had all turned to the white seed heads. A time lapse of that would have been interesting .
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.” Lady, it, I don’t think you’re all there.
These are the types that make up HOAs and school boards.
Fortunately where I am at sea level the water table is quite high.
My last 2 homes I installed my own shallow well and pump and all my irrigation.
Being in an HOA community this time they watch the yards pretty closely.
All my neighbors have secondary city water meters to supply their irrigation.....in the summertime they scream bloody murder about the cost......I just laugh and laugh. 😁
When I was a kid in rural Georgia or Alabama, “I gar-on-tee” you those “Billy Joe Bob” racists with white sheets in their closets did not have well-kept grass lawns.
“The false presumption is that blacks don’t have lawns and that they either live in apartment hovels, ghettos...”
In my experience when it comes to lawn maintenance there is no such thing as racism.
Some people just aren’t cut out for it or are just too damned lazy to keep up with it no matter what skin pigmentation.
For those who “get it” it’s a sense of pride and accomplishment as part of owning a nice home.
I began mowing our lawn at 12 years old. My dad paid me 50 cents a cut and I was greatful to get it, which made for a terrific life lesson.
All of which completely escapes this little twit.
And she is full of s***.
Strange .
I just passed a black dude on my run yesterday.
He was mowing his lawn
Underlying principal: “Having nice things” as such, is racist.
The 19th Amendment was a terrible mistake.
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The first time I saw this video last week I thought she was pulling our leg. A longer look at her and it was clear: She’s as serious as a heart attack.
I turned my yard into a mulch and shrub landscape architecture project. No grass anywhere. Of 5500 square feet of land, there are about 1000 square feet of vegetation. The other areas are a thick layer of mulch. I water the shrubs and perennials and allow the mulch to prevent evaporation. The shrubs convert lots of CO2 into oxygen. Far more oxygen is produced via shrubs and a tree than a grass yard. My visitors say my front and back yards look like the local botanical garden. Yet that is just me. It is a lot more fun to walk barefoot on grass. I have to wear flip flops to walk on mulch. Oh Gee. What a complicated life.
Used Schaeffer in a class in college. Oh, my. 1977 graduate.
Some people see racism in everything.
Used to be predominantly blacks but for some strange reason now white women have joined the imaginary cause.
I blame colleges and universities.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
I can’t even imagine what I’d have to go through here in Arizona to get a water well permitted and drilled on my property, nor do I know how far down the water is. A long way, I’d bet.
Rush said something many years ago that an average-sized lawn produced enough oxygen to supply the needs of a family of four for a year. Just rememberd that little bit from Rush.
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