Tuesday - August 05, 2014

lefty blockhead professor claims garden show is secret racist rant or, idiot gets his 15min fame

In the past I’ve complained a lot about the politically correct left always banging on about race issues even where none existed.  And if not, they would create one.
I’ve complained about pc meatheads who are offended on behalf of some other person or persons, even where the suspected offended party turns out not to be so.
Things just get dumber and dumber until we become so numb to things, we ignore it all.  And at one time or another, most of us ask if it can get any worse and any dumber.  Well … boy oh boy did I find a corker today in a morning paper.

Here the scary part before I share the article.

I was not surprised and you won’t be either.  And that is unfortunate.

Brief background.
Radio program been on for many, many years. It’s a program devoted to gardens and the millions of ordinary folk who love, nurture and tend them. The Brits are big on gardens and flowers.  It’s a national passion. So this radio program broadcasts as, Gardeners’ Question Time.
Now what the heck could possibly be racist about a garden show?

Ah well … seek and you can find whatever your twisted brain and black heart want to find.  You can even make things up, and if you’re a bearded stupid looking dweeb college professor, you can get people to pay attention.  Even if many will think you are a nutter.

Just another example of what our world has come to. And only someone from the left could dream this one up.

Gardeners’ Question Time? It’s so racist: Sociologist rails at references to ‘non-native’ plants

· Dr Ben Pitcher claims BBC Radio 4 programme is saturated in racism
· Sociology lecturer says its spreading covert racist stereotypes in disguise
· Believes the show is secretly feeding nationalist and fascist fantasies
· Appeared on another Radio 4 programme ‘Thinking Allowed’ on July 30
By Alasdair Glennie

With its amiable discussions on greenfly and compost, it may seem as innocuous as a radio show could be.
So regular listeners to Gardeners’ Question Time will be surprised to find it caught up in a race row.
For an academic claims that Radio 4’s long-running programme is spreading covert racist stereotypes disguised as horticultural advice.

Dr Ben Pitcher, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Westminster, says the panel show is ‘saturated’ with racial language.
From debates about native and non-native plant species to advice about the purity of different soil types, the programme’s resident green-fingered experts are secretly feeding nationalist and fascist fantasies, he claims.

Speaking on another Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed, he 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?’
Dr Pitcher said there is a ‘crisis in white identity in multicultural Britain’ caused by the fact that ‘white culture’ is historically associated with racism and far-Right views.

White people are therefore forced to find other ways of talking about white identity – such as through gardening – so they do not appear to be racist.
Speaking on the same programme, Lola Young, a crossbench peer and former professor of cultural studies, agreed with Dr Pitcher’s argument. 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.
It is not the first time Gardeners’ Question Time has been embroiled in a race row.

In 2008, listeners complained after a plant known as a ‘black man’s willy’ was mentioned. The BBC was accused of ‘pandering to political correctness’ after it apologised.

Last night horticulturalist Stefan Buczacki, who was on the programme for 13 years, said Dr Pitcher’s claims were ‘utterly absurd’.
‘Many things have been said about Gardeners’ Question Time, but you can’t say it is racist,’ he said. ‘His comments show a complete lack of understanding of the natural world.

‘Gardeners understand the fluidity of species over space and time.
‘They come and go, and adapt to different environments. That is what we mean by native and non-native species. It has nothing whatsoever to do with nationalism or racism.
‘There is enough real racism in the world without looking for it in places it doesn’t exist.’

WAYS THE PROGRAMME COULD BE PERCEIVED AS RACIST

NATIVE VERSUS NON-NATIVE SPECIES: The show’s experts often warn gardeners of the dangers of introducing foreign species of plant to a garden, and the importance of weed control. But is this actually a racist code?

SOIL: According to Dr Pitcher, nationalists often use the metaphor of soil to discuss ethnic purity. Are the Gardeners’ Question Time discussions about compost and soil types as innocent as they seem?

RHODOCHITON VOLUBILIS: A 2008 episode outraged some viewers when a caller asked for advice on how to care for the perennial climber, commonly known as ‘black man’s willy’.

SPADE: To most gardeners, it is no more than a simple garden implement. But in America, the word has long been a derogatory term for African Americans, equivalent to n*****.

BLACKFLY: Listeners often call in asking how to rid their broad beans of the pesky black bean aphid, commonly known as blackfly. But is there a secret racist subtext?

see the nutty professor here

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