Your lawn is racist

[George K]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-is-it-time-to-decolonize-your-lawn/

When most people think of lawns they picture carefree kids playing in backyards, picnics in well-kept parks – perhaps they even feel a sense of pride at how green and immaculate their own swath is.

But the traditional lawn – manicured, verdant, under control – now finds itself at the confluence of two hot-button issues: climate change and Indigenous rights. Some environmentalists, First Nations leaders and even hobby gardeners are calling for a different approach to how we view and treat the ubiquitous urban green space. It is, they argue, a lasting symbol of how settlers appropriated Indigenous land and culture. And the rigid Western ideal we have imposed continues to hurt the planet and, in turn, all of us. The lawn, some go as far to say, needs to be decolonized.

“What is a lawn but a statement of control over nature?” asks John Douglas Belshaw, a Canadian history professor at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.

“That’s a huge part of settler culture. You see that river there? We can dam that. We can organize that water, we can make that water work for us. It’s essentially the same mindset. I can reorganize this landscape, flatten it, plant lawn, find a non-indigenous species of plant, of grass, and completely extract anything that’s not homogenous, that doesn’t fit with this green pattern and control it ... A backyard with a big lawn is like a classroom for colonialism and environmental hostility.”

If you're white, and you own a dog, you're a racist:

If you are white and own a dog, you are openly participating and advocating for cultural appropriation and colonialism. Reinforcing this culture is NOT acceptable and will come with its repercussions.

Dogs are and always will be the living reminder of how tainted our history is as a whole. POC deserve to exclusively own dogs as a form of restitution for their stolen ancestor’s work. Supporting the idea of white dog ownership is spitting on the grave of past POC generations.

With International Dog Day coming up, it is important we remember and advocate for the work of POC, and never let this unbalanced history be forgotten.

If you are white and own a canine, please consider donating them to a local POC family or non kill shelter so it can truly find the perfect home.

[Aqua Letifer]

Kulaks.

[Loki]

I wonder if we all returned our lawns to nature what impact that would have on our outsourced labor requirements?

The dog thing was a fun read. I wonder if that group is larger than the flat earthers?

[LuFins Dad]

“ These filthy white savages took the work and credit from the Eurasian people and branded these magnificent creatures as their own.”

Niiice. Published by Cayde 6. Who is Cayde 6?

[LuFins Dad]

By the way, correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t “western Eurasia” be Europe? Where all the white people come from?

[Mik]

The Mexican economy would collapse.

But seriously - it is cultural appropriation. We appropriated lawns from the French aristocracy.

[Doctor Phibes]

I think the lawns are really a British rather than a European thing. I've never understood why you'd do it over here in this climate. You don't get anywhere near enough rain, so you have all those ridiculous sprinklers and what-not fighting the inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn

Edit - OK, maybe the Brits pinched it off the frog aristo-pigs, too. But for regular folks, it makes a lot more sense in the English climate.

[Jolly]

We get around 60 inches a year...

[Catseye3]

I'm in favor of more creative aesthetics for lawns, as against the broad swaths of flawless green -- mainly because I find the latter boring.

As for the dog thing. Ima getting me a Rottweiler and getting him a doghouse with a sign over the entrance: "Repercuss this, sucka."

In a saner age, I'd regard that as spoof, but now? Who knows?

[Mik]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Hence the rice.

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Hence the rice.

Well, that's half of it. The rice farmers double crop with these:

[Mik]

Now yer talkin'.

I got into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

[LuFins Dad]

Mankind has been shaping nature to fit man’s needs since they first sharpened a stick as a spear, first planted a crop, built a shelter instead of a cave, etc...

By their logic we should stop farming, all mining, do away with all fossil fuels, solar farms, wind farms, hydro-electric dams, etc...

[Jolly]

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

[George K]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance

But, but...THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!

[Jolly]

@George-K said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance

But, but...THE CARBON FOOTPRINT!!!!

It gets worse...that's a BX23s, meaning it's under 25hp(it's 23hp engine, less at the PTO). Under 25hp, tractors do not have to have a regen cycle. That means they are allowed to pollute more!

I didn't show one with the five foot belly mower, which does a fine job cutting large lawns. Just think...belly mower, front end loader, backhoe...Why, the possibilities to chug out a constant stream of diesel smoke are endless! How deliciously upsetting to the overwrought green crowd!

[Mik]

Yes. They'd be so upset, why they'd have to land their Lear Jet and see their therapist.

[mark]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

Sweet rig!

[Jolly]

@mark said in Your lawn is racist:

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

@Mik said in Your lawn is racist:

Now yer talkin'.

I giot into a little spat with my brother on FB last night. He posted some meme about lawns that proclaimed we must socially stigmatize the idea of having a lawn. In other words, cancel lawns.

There is nowhere in our lives they wil not try to control.

Now, don't get me wrong, I have long thought lawns wasteful, certainly a waste of my time and resources. But social stigmatzation as a change agent? Please.

Shame you can't tell brother you just bought a new toy for yard maintenance...

Sweet rig!

That's Kubota's best selling under 25hp rig. Compare it directly with a 1 series Deere.

Both are very good at what they do.

[Larry]

@Jolly said in Your lawn is racist:

We get around 60 inches a year...

Let's see.....

52 weeks a year, 3 times a week... 156. 156 X .....

Yep. My wife gets 1,560 inches per year.....