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.
LOL
I thought they were called AWFLs.
Under protest.
I wonder if vacuums, washing machines, and dishwashers are misogynistic? Keep them stupid bitches busy, the thinking went, and they simply won’t have the time to get all these silly ideas in their heads, you see.
How much does it cost nowadays to get a neighbor boy to cut your lawn? $50?
I bet lotsa Blacks will be voting Republican this mid-term.
At the risk of sounding whitey supreme - Springtime, for a few reasons, is really not a very good time to try and grow bluegrass from seed. It can be done, but it’s tricky.
The fall, with cooler temperatures, the return of more precipitation and less weed competition is when the pros do it. Interestingly when you go to the hardware store or garden center this time of year, you’ll see the bluegrass seed & fertilizer front and center.
It’s Spring. People expect this, not knowing any better, and they would be foolish not to try and sell it, or carry it. They would just buy it somewhere else. Can’t have that.
With that dad, I bet they’re doing very well.
I love Santa Fe, NM. I used to, I should say. I dunno how libiot Santa Fe has gone.
Not weeds, its trash, blunts packaging, dilute liquor bottles, bics, etc
I like the gravel lawns in Arizona.
“Everything I don’t like is racist” is such a narcissistic attitude.
Haircut and combed hair is racist.
So is bathing and deoderant.
I guess being civilized is racist.
JustJaim is trying to justify why she won’t cut her lawn. If she is too lazy to cut her lawn, give the job to some young person for a good wage.
“”I bet lotsa Blacks will be voting Republican this mid-term.””
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No doubt. They don’t like being marginalized (replaced as a voter block) any more than whitey does.
But it is a good match for their other meme - “Everyone I don’t like is Hitler”.
Was it ever. Case in point: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Commies hate beauty and fun and try to destroy them whenever they can.
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How did I know it would be a white woman before even reading the article?
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