rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

To me it just seems like a real baby and bathwater moment.

"Oh these fascists are using the language of ecology to spread racist tropes? Might as well not care about the principles of ecology "

To me it just seems like a real baby and bathwater moment.

"Oh these fascists are using the language of ecology to spread racist tropes? Might as well not care about the principles of ecology "

I wasn't addressing anything you, just adding my pov? Why do you take everything I write as a personal assault on you? Calm down.

Always a good look, telling a woman to calm down.

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sorry, I may have muddied things even further. I wasn't even talking about the environmental movement, just kudzu discourse in general (the "green plague" the "thug plant"). I do not think the concept of invasive species is inherently racist

map, not sure if you can read this but it may interest you: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26225593

interesting.

i don't know to what extent this is really present in ecologic discourse but i think any time there's a framing of it in terms of "original = good" and "corrupted = bad" it's a weak point. it doesn't mean that some plants aren't too far on the extreme of hogging resources to be desired in a particular environment. but in general i think people should move away from trying to "preserve" and "restore" and acknowledge that stewarding biological diversity is an act of creation that includes human input in important ways.

i'm not trying to criticize or start a beef or anything, but i'll just note that "stewarding biological diversity is an act of creation that includes human input in important ways" sounds like a slogan for an oil company

i agree, of course, that humans are part of the environment and that the sum of what we do and don't do has an enormous effect on the rest of it

but in general i think people should move away from trying to "preserve" and "restore" and acknowledge that stewarding biological diversity is an act of creation that includes human input in important ways.

And so is fomenting destruction of biodiversity, map. "Just leaving nature be" is sometimes a laudable position when talking about certain environmental issues. For example, I'm pretty firmly against off-shore wind farms, because of the amount of destruction they do to already threatened aquatic habitats. But simply allowing threatening plant species or pests to destroy important parts of North America's biodiversity because some fascist assholes use it as a cover for their fascism is a non-starter for me.

ok

If the spotted lanternfly makes its way down to my county this summer, I'm picking up one of these fuckers and going to war.

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i guess i'll just give an example to illustrate what i'm trying to get at. outside of boulder utah there is a small stream that runs off boulder mountain and eventually descends into the rock of the colorado plateau. right before it does, it passes through an area that used to be a cattle ranch. now it is half-ranch and half-rustic tourist resort. the ranch part still does single-crop alfalfa farming, but below that, the resort has modified the water flow in a few ways to create a very beautiful sanctuary for birds, bees, and plants. there are still areas of overgrazed and parched brush here and there, and afaik they do minimal planting or weeding to the grounds beyond a garden with a few crops, but the water motification has transformed the area into a place that is undoubtedly more biodiverse than it was as a cattle ranch, and possibly more biodiverse than it was as a single stream surrounded by pinion/juniper.

i think ecology discourse could use a little less of the american virgin / whore thing and take a more sober, clear-eyed view of the values that we want to instill in the gardens that surround us, possibly including one called "balance."

I'd simply say that the pinion/juniper and stream from pre-ranching days was garden enough, but your point is taken.

What the rest of us are getting worked up about, obviously, is that there are any number of pests (both insect and plant) that are actively killing parts of native forest. There are hardly any Ash trees left near where I live, and every warm season there are swarms of the spotted lanternfly, which are absolutely disastrous for many plants and the animals that depend upon them. So many trees have died in the years since it first got to metro Philly.

peace, man, one way to fight the lanternfly is to PLANT MILKWEED. The lanternfly loves it and is attracted to it, but milkweed sap immobilizes and kills the lanternfly :-)

Sweet! Will do

I would consider an "invasive" species to be any introduced plant, insect, crustacean, fungus, animal or other organism whose proliferation significantly degrades the food chain of an entire ecosystem, leading to large increases in mortality in all parts of that ecosystem. And, yes, I recognize that under that definition European colonization across the globe has been by far the most destructive instance of such invasion.

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wait, table and Aimless may have never beefed

No, we have.

I swear I have never seen “invasive species” associated with human immigration or whatever.

So is this where we talk about the racist buzzwording about the "Africanized" killer bee invasion?

this seems relevant, I found this article very thought-provoking, ATTN table and map and Elvis

https://thenaturalfarmer.org/article/rethinking-the-invasive-species-paradigm/

that looks really informative, thanks.

wait, table and Aimless may have never beefed

― imago, Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:26 PM (four hours ago)

lol what? it's rare to see them agree on anything remotely political!

okok, my initial instincts otm lol

thanks for the article post sleeve

thanks sleeve.

xp imago, i can say you were OTM 490 if that helps?

https://streetcarsuburbs.news/camp-reenacts-civil-war-battle-on-juneteenth-director-apologizes/

White guy wearing a Howard t shirt ?

Howard University? if so, then no

If not racist then…inappropriate?

Maybe he has a family member who attends or attended.

or he attends / attended the school himself

maybe his name is Howard

xp or he's employed there, or has some other connection to the school, or just wants to support the school, or just likes the shirt

I know at least two white guys who went to Howard for grad school, one in the physician assistant program, and one who I think did an MFA. It's a good school!

I'm a white guy who wears a FAMU shirt from time to time. Didn't go there. Was never employed there. Did live in Tallahassee. Racist? Let me know, because if it is, I'll burn the motherfucker.

Burning FAMU apparel... racist? Y/N

Can we spend more time policing people for what they do than what they wear plz

i'd love to start with policing calstars from posting tbqh

What the rest of us are getting worked up about, obviously, is that there are any number of pests (both insect and plant) that are actively killing parts of native forest. There are hardly any Ash trees left near where I live, and every warm season there are swarms of the spotted lanternfly, which are absolutely disastrous for many plants and the animals that depend upon them. So many trees have died in the years since it first got to metro Philly.

peace, man, one way to fight the lanternfly is to PLANT MILKWEED. The lanternfly loves it and is attracted to it, but milkweed sap immobilizes and kills the lanternfly :-)

― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Wednesday, March 9, 2022 2:08 PM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

Weird thread to revive but I just wanted to clarify something upthread - you see we're having an increasing issue with lantern fly infestations here in NJ so I searched the term on ILX out of curiosity and found table's post. I was intrigued but it turns out milkweed is not a solution, according to this source below debunking it... bummed because we have the pest's favorite tree out back next door and it actually is a nice looking tree despite being classified as a weed. This particular one thinks it's an oak tree or something and would pass as one if it weren't for its foliage. Anyway, now neighbors will be incentivized to destroy it because of these jerk flies and we'd then lose a huge source of greenery out our back window, where we in particular have no personal access to greenery otherwise (no yard access).

https://www.farms.com/news/spotted-lanternfly-experts-debunk-myths-about-the-prodigious-pestilent-pest-164065.aspx

Lanternflies are an absolute fucking plague near me - they're everywhere - and I hate them because most bugs for whatever reason don't land on me or bite me, but just this week I've had lanternflies land on me three times already, including one that landed on the back of my neck and started walking up into my hair, and it freaks me the fuck out.

I'm not sure if I'd recognise an Ash if it was fully healthy. Seems all of the ones I'm seeing are partially bare. Skeletal looking trees.

Notice the effect a couple of years ago but only recently found out what caused it.

I dreamt a lanternfly flew at me and I punched it.

^ great The Smiths song

I was at a park and had to grab onto a branch so I could adjust my shoe. I felt a crunch and looked to see that the entire branch was completely coated in lanternflies.

I made a new thread where we can discuss invasive species without being off-topic on the racism thread: Zebra Mussels, Honeysuckle, and Spotted Lanternflies! - Rolling Invasive Species thread

I know it's a parody but uhhh...Eskimo by The Residents??

Yeah, Not Good