Revealed: Gardening Is Racist

by Dave Blount | August 12, 2014 3:27 pm

According to the Thought Police, racism is everywhere – even on gardening shows like Britain’s Gardeners’ Question Time:

Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, claimed the programme’s regular discussions on soil purity and non-native species promoted nationalist and fascist beliefs.

Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, the academic said: “Gardeners’ Question Time is not the most controversial show on Radio 4, and yet it is layered with, saturated with, racial meanings.

“The context here is the rise of nationalism. The rise of racist and fascist parties across Europe. Nationalism is about shoring up a fantasy of national integrity. My question is, what feeds nationalism? What makes nationalism powerful?”

Let me guess: identification with the soil, right?

Dr Pitcher said the “crisis in white identity in multicultural Britain” meant people felt unable to express their views for fear of being called racist, so expressed their racial identity in other ways, such as talking about gardening.

Speaking on the same programme, Lola Young, a crossbench peer and former professor of cultural studies, backed Dr Pitcher’s analysis.

She added: “I remember back in the late 80s-early 90s when rhododendrons were seen as this huge problem, and people were talking about going out rhododendron-bashing.

“That was at a time when Paki-bashing was something that was all too prevalent on our streets.”

This indicates how desperate liberal totalitarians are to find resistance to their ideology so that they can sanctimoniously squash it.

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Evidence. Boden = soil.

On a tip from Henry. Hat tips: Legal Insurrection, David Thompson. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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