Gardener's Question Time

[darmstadt]

Racist? The lunatics (read academics) are taking over the asylum...these people don't live in the real world: Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time accused of being a vehicle to project 'racist' leanings - Home News - UK - The Independent

The use of botanic terms such as native and non-native, for example, panders to an innate desire to express nationalism, he says.

So what is a plant such as Japanese Knotweed if not non-native? What should we call it? 'Immigrant Vegetation?' **** me even it's Latin name is not in English: Fallopia japonica. What should we call words like this that are not English? 'Bloody Foreign Gibberish?' *******

[barrydidit]

Racist? The lunatics (read academics) are taking over the asylum...these people don't live in the real world: Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time accused of being a vehicle to project 'racist' leanings - Home News - UK - The Independent



So what is a plant such as Japanese Knotweed if not non-native? What should we call it? 'Immigrant Vegetation?' **** me even it's Latin name is not in English: Fallopia japonica. What should we call words like this that are not English? 'Bloody Foreign Gibberish?' *******

Mind you, NLyUK was on there the other week. She had something nasty growing in her front privett iirc.

[SueEllen]

Some academics have too much time on their hands and are desperate to get their work read they will say anything to get in the news.


A more sensible analysis of the findings is given by:

A horticulturalist and long-time Gardeners’ Question Time panellist Stefan Buczacki called the claims “utterly absurd.”

Stefan was born in Derbyshire of an English mother and a Polish father and says the achievement of which he is proudest is to have been voted among the 100 people of Polish descent who have contributed most to the life and culture of Britain

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[NickFitz]

Link to the Independent. But wait, what's this at the start of para 5?

According to the Daily Mail…

Ah

[NickFitz]

Link to the Independent. But wait, what's this at the start of para 5?

According to the Daily Mail…

Ah

Just to emphasise the laziness of the Indy's journalist: the programme itself is available on BBC iPlayer. But they didn't even bother listening to it and reporting what was actually said and understanding its context, instead just grabbing stuff from the Mail and repeating it.

Lazy, lazy, lazy

[darmstadt]

Damn, even the government are racist now:

Invasive non-native species report published - News from Parliament - UK Parliament

Natural England - England's Non-native Species Audit

[MicrosoftBob]

What about the boycott Israel campaign, isn't just an front for lefty closet racists to be able feel superior when the post about it social media

[xoggoth]

And surely all this reluctance by supermarkets to sell distorted fruit and vegetables is a concealed attack on the disabled?

[mudskipper]

Just to emphasise the laziness of the Indy's journalist: the programme itself is available on BBC iPlayer. But they didn't even bother listening to it and reporting what was actually said and understanding its context, instead just grabbing stuff from the Mail and repeating it.

Lazy, lazy, lazy

Only what we do - google, cut and paste

[greenlake]

Don't forget those racist gnomes....