This video from Vox reminds us of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explaining in 2019 why community gardens fail — it’s because we look at them through a “colonial lens.” While everyone is encouraging minority communities to start community gardens and grow their own fresh food, white folks go and colonialize the whole thing by planting cauliflower instead of yucca.
Now Vox goes in depth (we’ll admit we didn’t make it through the whole video) of why “people” are rejecting the name poinsettia in favor of the plant’s native name, cuetlaxochitl. We suspect it’s even fewer people than are trying to push the word Latinx. Anyway, it’s all tied into white colonialism and the Trail of Tears.
Why people are rejecting the name poinsettia in favor of the plant’s Native name, cuetlaxochitl https://t.co/Cg617RZfvv
— Vox (@voxdotcom) December 27, 2022
“Why the story of the poinsettia is a troubling one.”
Nobody is doing this.
— The Turquoise Temptress (@heartsabustin) December 28, 2022
No one is doing this.
— Allen Harris (@banthefox40) December 28, 2022
No one is doing that.
— Milkbone (@clarksthockey) December 27, 2022
They aren't.
— Nick Brown (@nwbvt) December 27, 2022
“People?” Who are these people?
— uppingwhatup 🎇 (@uppingwhatup) December 27, 2022
No one is doing this
In Mexico, they refer to them as nochebuena or flor de nochebuena (flower of Christmas Eve).
Here, we call them poinsettias.
Because people in different countries have different names for things.
— Spike Cohen (@RealSpikeCohen) December 28, 2022
"Why people are rejecting the name poinsettia…"
Because they are NPC leftist drones.
— J.G. Petruna (@jgpetruna) December 28, 2022
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Seems a bit harder to spell and pronounce
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) December 27, 2022
“People” doing a lot of heavy lifting here
— Dañiel Simpson (@DSimpson88) December 27, 2022
Vox editor: "I know how we can avoid the twitter files. Lets do a story on something no one even thinks about."
— Robert (@tally_dad) December 27, 2022
poinsettx
— japecake (@japecake) December 27, 2022
Nobody is doing this. This has sub-Latinx levels of adoption.
— Franklin Harris (@FranklinH3000) December 29, 2022
Literally no one. Nochebuena.
— Armando Carrillo (@aecarrillo) December 28, 2022
Literally no one is doing this.
— Shane Rider 🇺🇸 (@shaneriderMA) December 27, 2022
Headline says "why people", presenter says "many people", but video provides no evidence of these people. A good copyeditor would've slapped everybody involved for using these phrases.
— G3 Enjoyer 🇻🇦 (@EnjoyerG3) December 27, 2022
"people" being nobody.
— SoOverIt (@anypigslft2) December 27, 2022
Poinsettia is named for the person who introduced it to the US, which is a perfectly standard way of naming things cross-culturally as people have for thousands of years.
Another point against this name is the fact that the language in question is literally dead
— ✙ Copesint Central ✙ 🇺🇸🇱🇹🇵🇱🇩🇪🇺🇦 (@copesint) December 28, 2022
But it was a cisgender white man, thus erasing the plant’s cultural roots. Really, it’s amazing that they went to this length to produce a video that no one is going to watch.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Community gardens fail because we look at them through a colonial lens https://t.co/8l5gLWsL6n
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