Soil Purity and Non-Native Species: The way you talk about your garden may be racist

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Via David Thompson, The Telegraph reports, Is Gardeners’ Question Time racist?:

It is the softly spoken radio show that provides good-natured help and advice to thousands of gardeners every week.

So regular listeners to Gardeners’ Question Time may be horrified to discover it has been accused of peddling racial stereotypes….

But 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.

When David Thompson sent me the link, he joked: “Well, Soil is Sort of Brown…”