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Just Stop Oil Activists Who Threw Tomato Soup at Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ Get Prison Time (www.artnews.com)
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[–] ynazuma@lemmy.world -3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Unpopular opinion. This is a terrible way to protest

Climate change is THE issue. I have seen first hand glaciers disappear over the last 10 years. Protests need to happen.

However endangering and/or damaging irreplaceable historical objects and art is not going to win you any friends and is not the way to protest. These guys look like loons to the general population. Most people would consider them vandals rather than protesters

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but, unfortunately,

  1. Your opinion is not unpopular, it's the most common one

And

  1. This is a proven, and wonderfully effective way to protest. Getting the media to report on things at all, is an enormous, and repeatedly researched driver of discussion and awareness. And the climate emergency is not acted upon enough, and the continued criminal actions of the Oil industry are also painfully underreported.

I wish from the bottom of my heart this natural sense of justice of yours was the way to solve these issues, but those rich fucks are literally relying on, and fanning the flames of this mental pitfall, to keep people more passive on this issue.

Data and science says this protest, just like most other protests, works.

Protest in any way you see fit, different kinds of protest "work" on different people and structures. Just go and actually participate in whichever you believe in.

[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The painting was never in any danger of being damaged, and I'm certain these protesters knew that ahead of time.

[–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

TBH if they had damaged the painting I'd be pissed, but if oil execs started suddenly falling out of windows Moscow style I really wouldn't care. I don't know if your opinion is actually unpopular, but I agree with it