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New York Times: Lawns Are Symbols of Racism and Bad for Global Warming
Breitbart ^ | 13 Aug 2019 | Penny Starr

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Our HOA just awarded our next door neighbors with the yard of the month. My elderly black neighbors. Damned racists!


61 posted on 08/14/2019 12:57:05 AM PDT by gop4lyf (Gay marriage is neither. Democrats are the party of sore losers and pedophiles.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“pristine wilderness” eh?

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.

62 posted on 08/14/2019 2:14:58 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: gop4lyf

Yup. A couple of the nicest lawns I know of are owned by blacks.


63 posted on 08/14/2019 2:17:59 AM PDT by Paul R. (The Lib / Socialist goal: Total control of nothing left worth controlling.)
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To: TigersEye

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.


64 posted on 08/14/2019 2:31:47 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

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.


65 posted on 08/14/2019 2:33:01 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT is infested with rodents posing as journalists.


66 posted on 08/14/2019 2:41:13 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
the privileged masses

Author has cognitive dissonance. If the masses are enjoying lawns, is it really "privilege" anymore?

67 posted on 08/14/2019 2:54:52 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (“They are openly planning to murder you. Have a plan to prevent that.”)
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To: Gay State Conservative

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.


68 posted on 08/14/2019 3:01:27 AM PDT by spirited irish
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To: Sirius Lee

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.


69 posted on 08/14/2019 3:02:33 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is cast as the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Might as well bring this one out again.


70 posted on 08/14/2019 3:06:14 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: frank ballenger

Of course it’s OK to laugh on FR. I do to keep from crying...


71 posted on 08/14/2019 3:55:41 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: frank ballenger

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... ... .


72 posted on 08/14/2019 4:28:07 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Inner city basketball courts are not racist. Lawns are.


73 posted on 08/14/2019 5:09:18 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has beco</me my worst enema.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

the old gray whore is a race baiter. absent race baiting it would be out of business

the presses need to be destroyed


74 posted on 08/14/2019 5:12:07 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.btyC. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Liberals are f@cking idiots!


75 posted on 08/14/2019 5:12:34 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has beco</me my worst enema.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Socialists want everyone in those ugly public apartment buildings like in Russia.


76 posted on 08/14/2019 5:13:57 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (Prov 24: Do not fret because of evildoers. Do not associate with those given to change.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; Liz; V K Lee; HarleyLady27
Lawn Racist Brainwashes Innocent Boy to Become an Apprentice Lawn Racist & Capitalist!


77 posted on 08/14/2019 5:15:12 AM PDT by poconopundit (Will Kamel Harass pay reparations? Her ancestors were black Slave Owners in Jamaica.)
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To: octex
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Blnk
78 posted on 08/14/2019 6:06:50 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Boomer

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.


79 posted on 08/14/2019 6:10:05 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Boomer

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.


80 posted on 08/14/2019 6:10:05 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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