Guest essay by Eric Worrall
According to AOC, support for environmental policies like the Green New Deal would be stronger if minorities weren’t being subtly coerced into growing colonial cauliflowers in their communal gardens.
Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Colonial’ Cauliflower in Community Gardens Makes Minorities Avoid Environmentalism
By Joshua Caplan 20 May 2019
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“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman said while filming herself strolling through a community garden in the Bronx.
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“But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism, and that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them,” she argued.
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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/21/ocasio-cortez-colonial-cauliflower-in-community-gardens-makes-minorities-avoid-environmentalism/
What can I say – Alexandria, you’re supposed to eat the cauliflower, not smoke it.
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I’ll bet she’s never grown anything, ever.
She’s definitely never cultivated her intellect.
Hahahaha! Nice Mark
I think she’s going for a “reality” show, after she utterly fails at gov’t.
What is scary to contemplate is the mind of mush that would spend any part of their day watching her inane video recordings for any reason other than a good laugh. I understand that would qualify them for dimmest bulb in the chandelier to begin with but viewing her ramblings can actually make them dimmer.
She didn’t grow that.
It’s certain she doesn’t know a thing about photosynthesis and the role of CO2 in it.
Did she sat “dahlias”? She’s going to make dahlia smoothies???? God in heaven, she really is dumber than a box of rocks!!!! (No insult meant to rocks, either.)
Run away!!!! Run away!!!! And make sure you spray your clothes and shoes so that none of it sticks to you!
actually let her use the dahlias;-) it might remove the problem
A Cauliflower looks a bit like a brain and is a lot smarter and taster than AOC.
PS Cauliflower is a favorite food of East Indians (1 billion + people) and is awesome with potatoes in curry.
Her problem w/cauliflower is that it’s white. She demands that there needs to be more vegetables of color….
Yeast? Is that a growth too far…
Come on, you guys! It’s “Be Kind To Vegetables” week!
I doubt Occasionally-Conscious can tell a hoe from a hand grenade.
Does this mean I have to be extra kind to AOC this week?
only when she’s outstanding in her field (with the remainder of the herd)
Like this?
The only thing she has grown is MORE STUPID
Now if AOC was really serious about climate change, she would really do something significant like maybe give up toilet paper. After all, we are flushing entire old growth forests down our toilets, using tens of millions of gallons every day of drinking water in the process. A little sacrifice like going without the comfort of toilet paper would really make me think that AOC is ultra sincere about the horrors of climate change and practices what she is preaching. C’mon Alexandria, just give up the toilet paper and we will know you are sincere.
A least she should adopt the “One Sheet Sheryl” policy and CROW ABOUT IT GAFAW
It was Sheryl Crow who implored her fans to limit their use of toilet paper to a single square per incident. And she was dead serious. Maybe she saw that cartoon that depicted whole trees being lathed down to a single toothpick each, and drew her own assumption about TP.
TP is not a carbon problem. It is not made from oil. Or coal.
One way we could “reduce our environmental impact” is what relatives of mine did. They had a dry outhouse (away from the house) and their indoor plumbing was a single hand pump with no hot water and no central heat ( in Minnesota). I wonder how well some of these “environmentalists” will enjoy that level of living “for the cause of protecting the environment” ?
My dad used corncobs for TP when growing up in the Midwest during the 1920s.
NOAA
One red followed by one white to see if you needed the other red.
I have Amish around me that still live like that. Some of these “environmentalists” bitch when they hold up traffic in their horse&buggy.
Use the “three shells”
I guess she’s never heard of Growing Zones…Does Yucca (A desert plant) grow in Her neck of the woods??
Or is Yucca simply a Racial Slur against the Minorities???
They are minority therefore they must prefer growing Yucca to Cauliflower
I think ‘yuca’ was meant. Tropical plant with starchy tubers…very popular in LA…
How does it handle winter, as experienced in NY-14?
But we’ll need a lot more global warming to grow yucca plants outdoors in NYC.
This is correct: Notice she pronounced “yooka”, which is the Hispano-Caribbean pronunciation of yuca. The yuca tuber, also known as cassava and manioc, is probably the most important starch-rich staple in Pureto Rican cuisine, or second after maize.
She also mentioned plantains. NYC bodegas carry both, as Caribbean immigrants seek to maintain their traditional dishes and diets.
AOC’s problem is, she is oblivious to the fact that cauliflower can readily be grown in NYC community springtime and late-summer-planted/autumn-harvest gardens, while tropical yuca and fruit-yielding banana-family plants cannot be grown in New York. In the U.S., commercial cultivation and harvesting of yuca and plantains is only feasible in South Florida and Hawaii.
In addition, yuca, being an equatorial-zone-origin plant, evolved to grow under 12 +/- 1 hr sunlight. It would might survive, but would not thrive in NYC’s 9-to-15 hour sunlight seasonal swings, even in temperature-controlled greenhouses.
But she believes that with Global Warming NYC will be in tropical zone next year.
Thank you for the insight ilftpm.
aoc’s statement borders on gibberish. She is explicit on items that define her red herring strawman fallacy; but extremely vague on her colonial accusations.
It amounts to aoc is declaring generic racism based upon her explicitly imagined strawman.
As others have noted, aoc’s exposure to communal gardens is extremely limited and likely restricted to minimal community restricted urban communal gardens.
Yet, aoc feels free to extrapolate her minimalist experience to malign civilization based upon her prejudices and bigotry.
Wherein aoc ignores that people who spend time in the outdoors, especially those who pay attention seasons, weather, plant growth and response to conditions tend to be very wary of climate alarmist doomisms.
aoc overlooks that communal gardens are filled with people desiring to increase their vegetable consumption while reducing cost. These same people are going to be very alert to political fixes for climate doomism that hit them directly in their pocketbooks.
Im just curious … is her cauliflower HATE specifically directed at WHITE cauliflower ? Or does it also extend to “colored” cauliflower?
https://www.friedas.com/products/colored-cauliflower/
Do you folks remember the outcry when George Herbert Walker Bush (41) mentioned that he didn’t like broccoli? Where is the outcry against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her blatant slur against cauliflower?
It’s a sad thing when we’ve come to politicize vegetables.
That should be ‘cauliflower of color’ of course.😊
Of course! Shame on Frieda’s Specialty Produce for their unfortunate wording.
Of course, those are yellow and purple cauliflower, not black cauliflower. Blatant racism!
My God! She really doesn’t know anything useful at all! What do they teach at Boston University? Presentation?
Teach!? Do you seriously believe that a modern Jesuit school would actually degrade itself to actually teach? Have you not heard “ignorance is strength”?
She went to Boston U (not Catholic), not Boston College (Jesuit). That’s not to say that BC is really any better, but don’t insult them for AOC.
Boston U – Have at it. She has single-handedly degraded the value of a BU degree by at least an order of magnitude
I think she meant yuca, which is a name for cassava from which we get tapioca. This is still a tropical plant.
As far as plantains are concerned, I don’t think they grow on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard either, although Climate Change being what it is, maybe she thinks they will?
Plantains grow in my lawn here in the UK.
Yep. Mine here in Canada too, but they’re actually plantago. Tried eating them. Not terribly tasty.
It will have to be a pretty hefty climate change. They are very sensitive to even brief frosts so even southern Florida is marginal.
Yuccas will grow in northern Iowa.
Can they survive the winter, or are grown only from spring to autumn?
I’ve read that 6 months are enough to get tubers of usable size from yucca/cassava plants (but for nice big roots it takes two years), so treating it as an annual plant could be possible.
They grow as decorative plants in Western Washington. It doesn’t get as cold here as it does in the desert at night in the winter. The bigger problem, I think, is too much moisture and root rot.
I think there’s confusion between the yuCCa (flowering shrub) and the yuCa, or tapioca – which seems to be very tolerant to high humidity.
She has a point, that it tends to be upper class individuals who can afford to be environmental activists.
Find me anyone outside of the well-educated, upper classes who eat cauliflower … hence her bartender ignorance on the subject. Sorry, but it is true. The upper classes eat more responsibly, and healthy (hint: cauliflower is healthy) than her lower class constituents and fans. Smh … how can someone this shockingly ignorant walk the halls of Federal POWER? And here I thought it couldn’t get any worse than Maxine Waters
The answer to your question is that she is a Representative of her Congressional District and therefore is “representative” of the majority of the voters in that District. It’s kind of sad when you think about that, isn’t it?
How, you ask?
Name recognition. Aka low information, low IQ voting, rooted in racism.
They vote 70% Democrat
Don’t value the 1st or 2nd amendments.
Abuse their children both physically and sexually at significantly higher rates than the average American.
Murder at a rate 9 times the rate of the average American (excluding blacks- they are 27 times more likely to murder)
https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/state-free-speech-tolerance-am%C3%A9rica
https://www.pewhispanic.org/2009/12/11/between-two-worlds-how-young-latinos-come-of-age-in-america/
https://youtu.be/eR0_rbpmyOA
Yep, let’s just keep bringing in more losers from third world crap hole countries with crappy cultures, and crappy values. That is a fantastically friendly idea!!🤗
Nah, that couldn’t lead to anything bad like, you know, someone like AOC getting elected.
Bunch of maroons these collectivists. Shame they can’t just suicide themselves instead of killing off the greatest nation that’s ever been created.
There is no Justice when a group like the Justice Democrats can place radicals like AOC and Omar (thanks Obama for screwing over those states your forced immigration policies).
Sorry AOC – time to wake up – the voting public already have.
Other prospective politicians wanting to jump on this bandwagon – you’ve missed the boat.
Those already on it – the wheels are starting to fall off.
Those who bankroll said politicians – time to start looking for a different scam.
The rest of us – keep your eyes open for new scams.
AOC is single handedly doing away with blonde jokes.
BTW, Breitbart has the wrong spelling for Yuca, a vegetable, as opposed to Yucca, an ornamental plant.
I’ll chip in to buy her some blonde dye for her hair.
I think Yucca (the ornamental plant) does have starchy, edible roots. Only a survival food tho.
This Communist want’s to take us back to the Dark Ages.
Well, if you took away a thousand years of gained knowledge, A O-C would almost fit in. She would still be considered ignorant, though. Wonder if she believes in witchcraft.
She believes in the magical molecule. Is that close enough?
She wants to take her supporters into the dark ages.
As for us, well, we shall be inhumed.
“As for us, well, we shall be inhumed.”
Not likely. Nuts like her just get more air time, nothing more than a comedy act.
For those looking for a contemporary example of insanity look no further than this woman and her bizarre misunderstanding of the world.
Sad. This is what generations of unprecedented affluence eventually breeds, people who not only are generations removed from physical labor, but are totally unaware of what it actually is.
The single upside I can see to the kind to total economic collapse that these GND hippies are cheering for would be that most of them wouldn’t survive a year.
‘Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.
And, weak men create hard times.’
— G. Michael Hopf
What is she talking about?
But really, we have enough stupid politicians on both sides of the Atlantic. What we really need from WUWT are papers on the science which show that the climate scare is groundless. Now is the time to be pushing against this rotten door until it crumbles…
That was my first thought: “EH??” Her point is completely incomprehensible. Her 15 minutes of fame should have been over 6 months ago.
WUWT has been pushing on that door for decades now. But you can lighten up every now and then. It’s good to laugh too.
Or:- All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I think she should step aside and let some darker skinned people have a chance.
To reduce their constant embarrassment from her self-beclowning, the Democrat Machine will step in and make sure she’s defeated in the next primary.
I’m going to miss her when she’s gone.
You live in Fantasy Land, Steve O. Hank Johnson Jr. and Maxine Waters still serve.
Sheila Jackson-Lee won’t. The Queen of Stupid wants her crown back.
Or run her for President.
She may be gone after the next election, but don’t underestimate the value of celebrity status. Plus, she keeps pushing the ‘ridiculous’ line further and further to the left, making the mainstream-radical-left look more acceptable. Thirdly, she obviously cares as she babbles idiotically. Caring is much more important than knowledge to the left. And most importantly…her ‘presentation’ is pretty damn good.
The left has always been about symbolism over substance. AOC is ‘symbolism over substance’ incarnate! She is to the Democratic Party as the ‘creature’ is to Dr. Frankenstein. She may destroy the party, but I think the party will always support her.
Well said, James.
No.
AOC is an asset for the Dems appealing to the useful idiots. She is pushing the boundaries but I think Nancy will be able to keep her in control. With the help of the MSM she is kept in the forefront.
In contrast, she is a joke on the overall national scene. (No rational politician would put her on a Presidential ticket.)
Let me get this straight. According to AOC, Hispanics are supposed to grow yucca, not cauliflower?
You know, there was a time when liberals were against stereotyping.
MarkW: That’s a keeper.
There was a time when liberals gave lip-service to being against stereotyping.
Surely growing plants from another country is environmental appropriation?
I’m sure there’s some social injustice in there too.
A picture is…
..worth a thousand words. Superb!
You know, out of simple kindness, you could post a spew alert with that link, fella!!!
She’s likely talking about yuca root (cassava), which is a root vegetable native to Central and South America. Yucca is a flowering shrub
I wish she had picked upon a vegetable I actually like… Cauliflower…Euwww. Please, ban anyone from growing this! LOL
So now the liberal morons in the House are going to tell us what is politically correct to eat. So next they will have to link it to Global Warming and then they can get it listed as a banned pollutant. Farmers that want to grow it will have to purchase Cauliflower Credits.
Why does a cauliflower resemble a human brain . . . ever think about that AOC?
Where humanity will be now without the “colonial cauliflowers” ever being there!
Maybe at the very point humanity still happens to be, as per now and here…. with no any differentiation…
Too bad Darwin missed this point in evolution of species…the “colonial cauliflowers” affect… 🙂
cheers
Prejudicial of the noble cauliflower.
I daren’t think of the offence against cheese sauce.
I just planted some watermelon seeds, a couple weeks back, and they are coming along nicely.
Is my planting of watermelons an act of white supremacist mockery of an Afro-American-sterotype food preference? Am I, thus, planting my garden through the … “colonial lens” … of white, hetero-normal male, sexist, middle-class Americans ?
What should a politically correct vegetable garden look like?
“Is my planting of watermelons an act of white supremacist mockery of an Afro-American-sterotype food preference? Am I, thus, planting my garden through the … “colonial lens” … of white, hetero-normal male, sexist, middle-class Americans ?”
Obviously! It’s even worse that you had to ask!
That would depend entirely on your skin color.
MarkW
Green?
About 30 years ago while watching football, one of the other watchers said “if you paint the ball green, they would never drop it”………..
Micro-aggression!
That’s not a garden in the video.
It is a propaganda showcase likely using stimulus money (taxes from others)
to give the mayor, or her, something to crow about.
Someone from the place should investigate and compare the total cost of
this showcase to the value of the food that can/will be harvested.
I’ll guess the benefits to cost ratio – – to the closest whole number – –
will be Zero.
Did you notice that in the 8 one-square-yard planter boxes, nothing seemed to be growing? Notice also that the space brand new; the wood hasn’t even weathered yet. I wonder how the place will look in 5 years? Even amortizing the capital cost over 20 years of food production, I would bet the return on investment is less than zero. And will it survive 20 years?
It only has to last two, max, before it is overwhelmed by needles and feces. In the meantime, virtue signal!
What I first noticed were the signs. Nice.
I’ll guess the mayor’s brother-in-law or cousin has the sign printing business. The cost of the signs will likely be greater than the value of the produce.
And how big is the community?
Maybe they can grow Chives and Radishes for all the families within 500 feet.
What a joke.
“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community.”
Since her culture is from Puerto Rico, her plantings should be sugar cane, coffee, bananas, plantains, pineapples, and mango.
“What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community.”
Since many people in low-income communities do not eat vegetables, there are none that are “culturally familiar to them” to grow. Best to have art gardens with fantasy trees made with Mountain Dew cans to pick off the branches, stylish vats of mayonnaise for communal spreading, French-fry bushes, nacho cheese oases, and walls of frozen-dinners as the backdrop.
On a separate note: Cauliflower is an excellent source of vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, pantothenic acid, and vitamin B6. It is a very good source of choline, dietary fiber, omega-3 fatty acids, manganese, phosphorus, and biotin.
Heaven forbid that we encourage broad mindedness in growing plants of all varieties that are actually good for you nutritionally, no matter what your ethnicity. AOC is actually promoting racist gardening. She is pushing the envelope on stupid now.
“we encourage broad mindedness…”
Remember who you’re talking to here.
“we encourage broad mindedness…”
Remember who you’re talking to here.
you mean a mindless broad 😉
People actually buy into this BS. Sad.
AOC is so stupid she doesn’t know how stupid she is. My guess is primaried by Dems in 2020 to remove the embarrassment.
Cauliflower (a Brassicae) was know to the Romans and the Arabs. Pliny the Elder wrote about it. Yucca is mainly a desert ornamental, not a foodstuff. Unless she meant in spanish Yuca, which is actually cassava (a root vegetable staple in some places, processed to tapioca in US). Neither Yucca nor yuca would grow in an outdoor NYC community garden. Ever.
Well surely she jests . . . in the coming days.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47098/ocasio-cortez-i-was-joking-about-world-ending-12-amanda-prestigiacomo
Rud, you are stupider than she is because she’s in Congress and you are not.
Being that she is in Congress and you are not Rud, her opinion and her vote matters much more than does yours.
Rud, AOC gets much more bandwidth on Fox News than you do. Come to think of it, you never get mentioned by Fox News, but she gets lots of coverage. That makes her much more important than you.
CM, I’m afraid that you are confusing “important” with “in the spotlight”.
I could shine a flashlight on a pile of crap, while leaving a large diamond completely in the dark.
Need I clarify what AOC is in that metaphor?
WOW Chris, insulting your goddess really got your panties in a wad.
Clearly Chris doesn’t who Rud is. Probably just a passing troll in the night. We’ll never see him again.
So Rud, have you ever gotten a mention on Fox news? (that is the metric of intelligence now).
Doesn’t matter who Rud is, he is not in Congress, so he has no clue about AOC
‘AOC is so stupid she doesn’t know how stupid she is. ‘
In 40 years of teaching, one of the things you learn is that the ones with ‘room temperature IQ’ can never understand what they did wrong. The words will be all there, but the meaning is lost in translation, and they cannot see the difference between what they wrote and what the book said. The best test for understanding is the ability to paraphrase without losing the meaning.
“Neither Yucca nor yuca would grow in an outdoor NYC community garden.”
Yuca won’t, yucca might be possible. There is a small species Yucca glauca ssp. albertana that grows as far north as southernmost Alberta. I wouldn’t recommend eating it though: