New York Times: Lawns Are Symbols
of Racism and Bad for Global Warming
Breitbart Media,
by
Penny Starr
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/13/2019 8:48:12 PM
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
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 8/13/2019 8:56:47 PM (No. 151467)
Remind me to get a big bag of Scott;s Turf Builder tomorrow.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 8/13/2019 8:58:41 PM (No. 151469)
Tell you what, NYTimes - You stop killing trees to make paper for your rag, then tear down your wasteful Manhattan huge building and turn it into forest, and stop telling us what to do - and then I'll turn my lawn into wilderness. In the meantime, get off my lawn!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ginadee 8/13/2019 9:04:44 PM (No. 151472)
I'm calling my lawn care company tomorrow and telling them to add two more treatments to my program.
(I haven't seen any slaves working on my lawn. I'll keep watching, though)
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/13/2019 9:08:20 PM (No. 151474)
My beautiful lawn looks a whole lot better than the streets of NY City, Baltimore, San Francisco, Los Angeles... Mr Botti should worry about the city effect on the environment and let us lawn owners keep the oxygen producing vegetation healthy!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DeplorableVet 8/13/2019 9:13:28 PM (No. 151478)
Getting ready to fertilize my racist lawn with the opinions of the New York Times.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/13/2019 9:14:45 PM (No. 151479)
Well, then democrats and the democrat party are MAJOR symbols of racism since they ARE the party of slavery, Jim Crow, the KKK, inner city ghettos, killing black and brown babies. . .
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
BarryNo 8/13/2019 9:16:05 PM (No. 151483)
And yet so many liberals have such BIG lawns! Hypocrits!!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Northcross 8/13/2019 9:20:44 PM (No. 151484)
Great. So I can stop cutting and edging my grass and instead just toss my garbage out there to transform it to be like the liberal utopia of Baltimore.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JL80863 8/13/2019 9:26:21 PM (No. 151487)
He must have been smoking grass when he wrote this piece of fertilizer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
chase9365 8/13/2019 9:27:08 PM (No. 151488)
Oh God, shut up, just shut up, for Christs sake.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Safari Man 8/13/2019 9:27:31 PM (No. 151490)
And not only that... you should see how much carbon I spew when I fire up the Troybilt to mow my 1.3 acres.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 8/13/2019 9:31:37 PM (No. 151493)
i don't know anyone who believes in either "racism" or "global warming" as defined by
these EU Globalists..
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
droopydog 8/13/2019 9:36:24 PM (No. 151497)
Is there anything the left can't or won't ruin? Just in the last month...lawns, soccer, fencing (the sport), August 8th. I'm sure there are dozens more.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Troutgreen 8/13/2019 9:40:09 PM (No. 151500)
Ever read Rip Van Winkle? Nice little allegory about what happens when civilized people get lazy and don't keep the wilderness beat back from the door.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 8/13/2019 9:46:24 PM (No. 151503)
Another unhappy liberal who has to find fault with everything. Just ignore this drivel. If I didn’t know better, I would think we are being trolled. But alas, he is serious with too much free time on his hands. As for me, I am grateful for this summer of rain that has kept my lawn thick and green!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Sandbar 8/13/2019 9:47:49 PM (No. 151504)
I've seen corn fields, lots of corn fields, hundreds of corn fields, maybe a 1000 before I was 10. Not one was irrigated. I suspect these writers know more about asphalt than lawns or corn fields.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
CallMeHank 8/13/2019 10:25:01 PM (No. 151515)
When I was a little guy, lawns were meadows comprised of whatever grew, the grass cutters were four-legged, except for close up to the house where we used a push mower and we little guys were its motor. Vistas were achieved with flowers and shrubs. Rich folks sculpted with boxwood. Not so rich folks used privet hedge. All that lush green stuff reduced the so-called carbon footprint to about zilch. Actually, my preferences haven't changed all that much and I'm not going to worry about it one bit.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ronbet 8/13/2019 10:39:01 PM (No. 151520)
N Y Times headquarters; resident nut-house of progressives and liberals!!
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Well, we with lawns COULD all get a cow to eat the grass instead of a lawnmower.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ming 8/13/2019 10:47:06 PM (No. 151526)
"The paper or record. Huh."
So says my parakeet looking down at it from atop its perch.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/13/2019 10:51:29 PM (No. 151529)
It appears that I am actually quite white because my lawn is well tended (I'm too old to do it myself any more). I live in a racially diverse neighborhood, but mine doesn't yet come up to the high standards others near me have for their lighted, decorated and sculpted lawns. Does that mean that the people of African and Asian descent near me are also white? I don't want to be the one to tell them.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Faldo 8/13/2019 11:23:08 PM (No. 151545)
Ahhhh, this struck a cord...and rightly so!
Great comments...thank you.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MissMann 8/13/2019 11:28:11 PM (No. 151548)
FTA: "Every 600 square feet of grass produces enough oxygen to support one human for one day. That’s pretty efficient production of clean air." Ergo, the NYT is full of idiots.
https://tinyurl.com/y54ncmxn
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/13/2019 11:32:24 PM (No. 151551)
FWIW turf grass has been in the crosshairs for a long time.
It's a high horse the left will mount from time to time because throwing stuff on the wall to see what sticks is what they do.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 8/14/2019 12:10:13 AM (No. 151574)
Rocks, air and the Sun are racists too.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rinktum 8/14/2019 12:42:33 AM (No. 151596)
These people are definite insane and getting wackier every day. They are obsessed with controlling every aspect of our lives. They have officially jumped the shark.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/14/2019 1:40:32 AM (No. 151615)
Actually, it's concrete and asphalt that contribute more to 'Globull Worming'....lawns, not so much. They are working hard to corral everyone in cities where they'll be easier to control.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/14/2019 2:20:56 AM (No. 151635)
I getting a pair of lawn jockeys for mine.
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The people living in high rises in NY are just special. Any of them own a lawn ? BTW, special people, not only do I have a lawn, but trees.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/14/2019 4:37:48 AM (No. 151668)
I see where the communist NY Slimes is going. They want all our lawns ripped up or a separate onerous tax put on them for extra demonrat money to waste, while they get to keep their acres of manicured lawns.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 8/14/2019 6:42:11 AM (No. 151712)
A "Dixie Chopper" can handle the lawn but the back 40 needs a tractor/shredder.
You can turn grass into steak, burgers and cash.
No kidding.
Look into it.
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Ok wise arses at the Slimes, where’s my slave to cut my grass? Hey send one of your lackeys and he she or it can do my grass. Sound ok?
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Daisymay 8/14/2019 8:15:00 AM (No. 151767)
Needed a bit of comedy to start my day, so decided to read this Article. The only "Slave" on my Lawn is my husband who is constantly outside, in the heat of Florida, looking for a blade of grass that does not meet his expectations! We do have a lawn service, but the guys are as White as we are! Not sure where this writer gets her information that the lawns come on the backs of slaves. We RARELY see a Black person working for these Lawn services!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
StrikingViking 8/14/2019 10:28:35 AM (No. 151963)
The Left is flat out of ideas. All they have left is identity politics, especially racism. When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Of course lawns are racist. So are white paper, snow, clouds, cotton (ESPECIALLY cotton), popcorn, chickens, Wonder Bread, and vanilla ice cream.
When a Leftist gets tired of using "racist" they up the ante to "white supremacist". Don't ask me why, but they think it sounds more ominous.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
sailannapolis 8/14/2019 10:46:59 AM (No. 151986)
You (NYT) failed elementary science when we learned that grass acts as a natural air. conditioner for homes and buildings it surrounds and why we are on this sunject, TREES absorb CO2. SO BOTH GRASS AND TREES HAVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN OUR CLIMATE.
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