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I think are using the term "Plantation" as a loaded word here to unconsciously invoke the negative ideas of slavery and oppression to get their point across. I'
by fasteddie31003 5y ago
I think are using the term "Plantation" as a loaded word here to unconsciously invoke the negative ideas of slavery and oppression to get their point across. I've never heard of a tree farm called a plantation before.
- guerrilla 5y agoOr just speaking English [1]. > A plantation is a large-scale estate, generally centered on a plantation house, meant for farming that specializes in cash crops. The crops that are grown include cotton, coffee, tea, cocoa, sugar cane, opium, sisal, oil seeds, oil palms, fruits, rubber trees and forest trees. Protectionist policies and natural comparative advantage have sometimes contributed to determining where plantations are located. > A tree plantation, forest plantation, plantation forest or timber plantation is a forest planted for high volume production of wood, usually by planting one type of tree as a monoculture forest. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation#Tree_plantations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantation#Tree_plantations
- hulitu 5y agoMaybe in your region plantation has those negative connotations. In other regions a plantation is an area of land planted with a particular plant. Why must every word treated as racist ?