Breitbart:
New York Times: Lawns Are Symbols of Racism and Bad for Global Warming.
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. read more
Which of their KGB agents/”reporters”/”analysts” worked on this? Since W Durante is dead I am sure he did not contribute. but the NYT has a long history of being run by the KGB so of course they want to destroy America. And have for 90 years.
…since we can already stipulate that, to a Leftist, EVERYTHING that ANY White person, past, present, and future, has EVER said, done, or thought about , is 100% irredemably deplorably rayciss, then what’s the POINT of them going through INDIVIDUAL acts of Whiteism, like having a nice (gasp!) Lawn?
…we get it, you hate White people. Move on to the next Russian conspiracy theory already, my birds NEED all the “news that’s fit to print” so they can edit it with the finesse that it deserves…
Everything is racist except for the real racists on the left of course. And to think I got an A in my racism and sexism course in college nearly 40 years ago, I must have been parroting all their liberal bullshit back to them since I couldn’t do that now. Which is why when I graduated from college I had to unlearn everything that I was taught in order to be able to think straight.
…although, come to think of it, the poop the birds will adorn your fine publication with is more White than Black, too.
…guess even avian excrement be rayciss too…
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Bring back the Nissan commercial from the early 2000’s where all the dirty birds were pooping on cars, that was hilarious.
…well, here’s a Renault @geoff the aardvark, will THAT do?
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…I used to work on cars. This is better than Renault deserves…
Should come by and check out my 4.5 acres of colonial repression. It looks great from the front porch as I sit looking at my repressive pond while sipping my sweet tea. (I had to add the sweet part so that the yankees could maybe keep up.)
Two words Le Car, that French and AMC POS should’ve never been made. Bird poop all over it would only make it look better.
…The Eagle line was Renault too, you know, @geoff, and what a masterpiece IT was…
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I’m afraid to admit that my wife and I looked at a Renault/AMC car at a new car show back in the late 70’s or early 80’s and we thought it was cute, fortunately all we did was look. I used to call AMC Eagles Beagles because they were dogs.
I read some years ago that environmentalists want to stop seeding and watering golf courses. To save the Planet, of course. They even suggested that golfers get used to brown dirt golf courses. I think it was in a Golf Course Management Magazine.
Liberals ruin everything they touch. Imagine watching The Masters played in mud?
David Botti is batty.
One look at the elbow side of my forearms, you’ll know why I grow grass and maintain it. Poison oak, sumac, ivy or maybe something else, I don’t know. The grassy areas and trails are generally safe.
Call me a racist all you want.
If it weren’t for my lawn my black slave would have nothing to do.
Lawn in rural Arizona. Hard as hell to maintain. I have it so my kids don’t have to play on rocks.
It’s not a race thing. It’s a how hard do you work thing. Lazy mofos aint got no lawn. Hard workin’ Americans have lawns in varying states of lushness.
NO ONE IN NYC HAS A LAWN.
David Botti is a Marine Iraq vet but of the Mayor Pete the peter beater type is my guess. All that time spent in Iraq, turned him against green grass.
I love my lawn. It took me years to cultivate it. Thank God for Sears Roebuck for allowing me to buy the tools I needed, on time. Once I put the down payment on the little Cape Cod I didn’t have a pot to piss in ’till the next pay check. It took me about two years to build a retaining wall and get a healthy lawn going. And there wasn’t a fucking slave in sight to help me. So fuck off
Botti, Ya fooken asshole.
Obviously this little pansy made $0.00 cutting lawns as a kid.
I am a slave to my lawn yet also now a racist. If I don’t exhibit my racism on a regular basis the city will practice my racism for me and give me a large bill.
So do we concrete everything like in the cities? I think all the “elite” college repressive greenery should be allowed to go back to kudzu, blackberry canes and poison ivy.
Whoa now Tim, we’re not slaves to our lawns….. we just cater to their every need and whim. Endlessly. From now until the lawns in hell freeze over…..
Crap. We are slaves.
To a couple of points made or alluded to already, @ Moe Tom and CC, the ‘fookin’ asshole needs reminding:
a) he never made any cash cutting a lawn (I did not)
b) he never bought tools or plants for the lawn
c) he does not like the feel of grass on the feet
d) he does not like the animals the eat the grass, the grubbs the worms, etc, etc, there is an entire ecosystem within a lawn.
e) lawns do not act as heat islands as does asphalt in most major cities.
f) lawns, and back yards, are where memories of a wiffle ball or volley ball or frisbee or or horseshoe or CORN HOLE or WHATEVER…are made.
g) lawns are the mere left over land in developing suburbs, that the house does not occupy or is zoned in such a way where open space between homes is required, side yards, front and back setbacks.
H) THIS might be the most important. I HIRE a LEGAL immigrant (been here 40 years who owns his own company) that I have had cut my grass and blow the leaves for the past 20 years PARTICIPATING in Trickle Down Economics down to his crew. It’s all of a 1/3 of an acre. That will end as my own crew is gettin’ big enough to do it and we could USE the cash.
I can get to Z but you get the message…
What is this guys’ problem??
Oh @Aaron Burr – I know what you are saying BUT not true! I’m from the citay and especially in the outer Boroughs and places like Riverdale located in the Bronx DO have lawns as do places out in Staten Island, the only borough that voted for Trump!
Me? I grew up in the Projects, so when I bought my first and still living in twenty five years ago, I thought “I was in heaven”. I made it.
For the car heads. Got YUGO?
If your lawn is smaller than 5K square feet, you have a rabbit patch, not a lawn. I’ve seen carpet remnants bigger than a NYC “lawn.”
An acre of grass puts out more oxygen than its equivalent acre of trees.
“once viewed through the lens of social justice”
I think I see the problem and solution all at once.
Social Justice WILL die. It’s just a matter of how long it takes to take itself out.
Let’s talk Al Franken, Sara Silverman, and Evergreen’s current enrollment for a minute.
It will tighten it’s own noose to the point no one is left standing.
I find it humorous that Alinsky’s tactic to make them live by their own rules is being applied by themselves to themselves.
When I bought my house in MN, my intent was to make much of the lawn into flower gardens. I had about 1 1/2 lot sized lawn and I turned all of the back into wild flowers. Along the sides were bushes and herb gardens. I planted about six or seven trees, all with mulch around them with some of them containing flowers. A few smaller flower gardens and one mesic (with lots of ferns) section near the house.
My goal was to get my resulting small yard mowed in 1/2 hour with my tiny electric mower. Almost succeeded by the time I moved (45 minutes, tops). I didn’t have to water much except a few times in August.
Working with my flowers and other assorted plants were such a pleasure. I worked as a manager and after my job, I sure enjoyed putting plants where I wanted them without them complaining about everything! Getting my hands dirty in good soil was satisfying, too.
However, I did NOT do it for the stinking SJW idiots or climate creeps. I did it because I wanted to. So just shove your woke piss-ant attitude up your …
AndLawn God. There are no NYC lawns except on top of skyscrapers owned by billionaires. They also have pools on the roofs. But the only lawn for New York City dwellers is Central Park. And you better be to fuck outta there before dark.
My little 3/4 acre is forty miles North of Central Park.
I grow tomatoes, Egg plant, lettuce, and other little things for my enjoyment.
Can we get back to being slaves to our lawns? I mean, I can stop taking care of it any time I want.
Right?
None of us are in some sort of home and garden twilight zone episode are we?
“Meet Jeff. A typical homeowner in a typical town. Everyday is the same for Jeff. Weeding, mowing, spreading fertilizer. It’s a good life. The only life Jeff has ever known. But all that’s about to change because Jeff has just entered….The Twilight Zone.”
And one day I was weed whacking when a snake showed up and I just whacked the bitch, cut her fucking head off. My neighbor, a big time liberal, told me that that was unnecessary because garter snakes are harmless. I told him that snakes were snakes, just like democrats. We didn’t speak much. He passed away a few years ago. No loss, even his crazy wife hated his guts.
Go ahead, ask me, how did I know the snake was a she?
I know my racist lawn is racist. It provides about 30 racist chickens with racist victuals in the forms of bugs, mice, and french fries. Has anyone ever noticed how racist Crested ducks are? They hate chickens, cockerels, too. Racist fucking french fries. Bananas are racist, too.
Ever notice how racist chickens HATE yucca plants? They squash my plants for spite. And they shit on my deck. It’s because I’m white. All I ever wanted was a yucca plant. And they squash it. It’s not like they can eat them. Nothing can eat a yucca. Except a racist chicken.
This particular stupidity burns my eyelids.
A lawn traps and turns more carbon dioxide to oxygen than cement or gravel.
A lawn brings life giving oxygen to the area around your house
Having a lawn teaches caring for the environment
Taking care of a lawn teaches responsibility
Making things inviting and beautiful is good for a person.
What type of asinine dumbass has the gall to put this out as honest work?
Andrew Jackson would publicly horsewhip this idiot in the center of the street.
I miss those days..
Can you imagine a real US Marine writing shit like that?
Who the fuck is David Bobbi?
Little Crested ducks will gum you with their little gummy bills. The HORROR! I’ve been attacked by little racist ducks — a mal-lard, no less! He (I’m not assuming gender, his head was green and he had a drake) grabbed my sock-top in his bill and twisted his head, violently! I cried. I expostulated. I wept. I reasoned. All to no avail!
For people who longed for a home and saved every penny to get one must detest this little murherfucker . New York Times Asshole.
Goats piss in their own mouthes. If that’s not the definition of a democrat, I don’t know what is.
Oh shaddup already!
We’re all racists now.
Well, I’ll ponder this while I have Mammy bring me a julep and fan my pale white face as I watch the field hands scythe the grass on my little 1.5 acre plantation in rural Indiana. Thinking about planting some cotton next year …