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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Our HOA just awarded our next door neighbors with the yard of the month. My elderly black neighbors. Damned racists!
This character Botti must not get out much.
Because, while some areas of wilderness are nice, or even spectacular, many others are hell on earth. We have a quite nasty area of mostly briars not too far away that I'd like to (gently) drop this guy in to.
Yup. A couple of the nicest lawns I know of are owned by blacks.
Unmown lawns are also magnets for rodents and other critters; more Third World ideals brought to the West...
The left will drop this once they realize their dogs can be bitten by snakes hiding there - seriously.
Yes, lawns provide the same benefits as the rain forest in providing oxygen; the NYT knows many Americans within their dwindling reader base are too stupid to make the connection.
The NYT is infested with rodents posing as journalists.
Author has cognitive dissonance. If the masses are enjoying lawns, is it really "privilege" anymore?
Social Justice: When the earth has been scrubbed clean of all low-life humans except for self-ordained elites and however many slaves are needed for the sustainment of a quality of life suitable to elites.
What is the ‘old’ fact/statement...
Half of the people are ‘dumber’ than the ‘Average Joe’
Or,
as Yogi would say
That place is so crowded no one goes in there anymore.
Of course it’s OK to laugh on FR. I do to keep from crying...
Exactly - “Go Green, it’s the only responsible way to go........but it can also be racist...go green..it’s racist, go gr...racis... ... .
Inner city basketball courts are not racist. Lawns are.
the old gray whore is a race baiter. absent race baiting it would be out of business
the presses need to be destroyed
Liberals are f@cking idiots!
Socialists want everyone in those ugly public apartment buildings like in Russia.
Lawns started not only for that but for vermin control. Short grass leaves pests like mice exposed to predators. Helps to prevent vermin infestation in home.
Lawns started not only for that but for vermin control. Short grass leaves pests like mice exposed to predators. Helps to prevent vermin infestation in home.
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