Posted on 08/13/2019 6:50:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While most Americans are spending time this summer enjoying the sun in the comfort of their houses’ yards, the New York Times is out with a new exposé on how lawn care is problematic, once viewed through the lens of social justice. Lawns are contributing to pollution and climate change, asserts narrator David Botti, and their origins are far from woke, in a seven-minute video on the history of American lawns.
Botti says lawns are part of the “colonizing of America,” which transformed the landscape from “pristine wilderness” to “identical rows of manicured nature.”
“These lawns come on the backs of slaves,” he continues, zooming in on a painting of George Washington in a field to highlight men cutting the grass with scythes. “It’s grueling, endless work.”
“By the 1870s we also see American culture slowly start to embrace lawns for the privileged masses,” he states.
The video explains that the perfect lawn is associated with being a model citizen, how the first sprinkler was invented in 1871, and about the advent of “so-called trade cards” that “advertised the hell out of lawn and garden products.”
The Times also refers to the work of historian Ted Steinberg, who calls lawns the “outdoor expression of ’50s conformism.”
To drive home the point, he inserts vintage footage of two women being interviewed in their yards talking about how they moved to their communities to live exclusively near other white people. Neither of them says anything about desiring, having, or maintaining a lawn.
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Good luck with your lawn sod. You have accepted the racism of the lawn itself and now can “leave a place where you have been” rather than stay in denial, thanks to that acknowledgement of the problem. The lawn has been externalized. The lawn itself is still racist, though.
Doncha’ just love NYC style liberal psycho mumbo jumbo?
Lawn jockeys....
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Someone on FR must have the meme of this. The photo caption was Bill saying to Hillary “Whatever happened to that Obama fellow who wouldn’t let you have the nomination?”
Near them was a lawn jockey with Obama’s face on it.
Lol! Never saw it, but I hope someone has it and will post it!
What? dig up Central Park?
Read up on Nazi Brown Shirts.
Antifa was a communist terrorist group that was formed to fight them.
My Grandpa went through the Bolshevik revolution. As they went through his village and took everything they had, they were screaming “For The People!”
Same slogan as Kamala Harris.
Yes, history is repeats itself. This is an attempt for a Marxism redo.
My white lawn boy and his wife work awfully hard running their own business...I wonder if I should pave over my yard though, just to be sure I’m not offending somebody.
Why are people still referring to the NYTimes as a newspaper?
It hasn’t been that for a very long time now.
It’s no better than the gossip tabloids at the check-out counters, but the tabloids do serve a better purpose.
There are Lawn Jockeys in Central Park ??!? Does Al Sharpton know this?? Lol
An unmown lawn is a fire hazard. Fires release sequestered CO2.
People who don’t mow their lawns are contributing to GlobalClimateWarmingChange.
If my legal Hispanic groundskeepers don’t maintain my & others’ lawns, they won’t be able to earn a good living & their kids won’t be able to go to good schools.
Who’s the racist?
NYT. Ok so you don’t want lawns. Move to Mars. No lawns, of course red rock gardens might be racist.
LOL!!!
Doesn’t quite look like lawn mowing day at Cuttnhorse’s place!
We live out in the county of a small-medium town. MLK Jr. St. has some of the nicest lawns, pretty flowers, & cool potted plants. Not big houses, but pride is definitely taken in their landscape. So go figure.
I am tired of these ridiculous people making their dumb ideas some twisted academic m***urb*t**n fantasy. Go away.......
These a-holes should go lay in a ghetto slum and stay there.
Huh? I’m contributing heavily to the local economy by hiring a company - at which its owner has made a living for 30 years - to cut back my weed population and also to beautify my neighborhood. But leftists don’t care about pretty, nice, good - you know, any of that old, un-woke stuff, before we all got so wise we realized that a trashed, overgrown yard and ugliness all around is actually a good thing. Mother Gaia wants it that way,
I myself have a lawn jockey and pink flamencos : )
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