Cue the outrage and two minutes hate.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2024
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Given that the painting is protected by glass, I don't really mind this protest. But I do hate when people destroy historical pieces in protest or like some stupid tourists have done in places like Italy.
I just don't see what its supposed to accomplish. You can't raise awareness when people are already aware that some form of problem exists and have preemptively demonized you.
Right but these are climate change activists, not stupid tourists. The internet is going to hate on them anyway. The Mona Lisa! Sacre bleu!
No, they were farming advocates. From the article:
The French capital has seen protests by farmers in recent days, calling for an end to rising fuel costs and for regulations to be simplified - on Friday they blocked key roads in and out of Paris.
And I was not indicating that protesters and dumb tourists destroying precious art are on the same level. But there are other ways to draw attention to crises than destroying historic artifacts.
I don't support that, regardless the cause.
I stand corrected, thanks. I assumed they were climate activists, since all the previous soup throwing was about climate.
Do you know of any instances where climate protestors have destroyed historic artifacts?
Just to play devils advocate, I decided to try to see if there were many instances of artwork actually being damaged. I found this article documenting the many "attacks" on artwork by climate protesters.
It does an excellent job illustrating how unjustified the outrage is, documenting how the attacks don't damage the artwork.
Yeah I assumed the same thing before reading the article.
I believe people have done similar things to unprotected artwork. I think I remember that happened here in the US at some point in recent years.
Just to be clear, I was saying from the beginning that I don't really see the harm in this because the painting was protected by glass.
My point in bringing that up was just to argue that people being outraged by this are unjustified in my opinion, as there was no damage done to the painting.
I was acknowledging that outrage would be justified if it were to actually cause damage; I wasn't insinuating that climate protesters were notorious for damaging artwork.
I think the Mona Lisa is probably the worst attraction at the louvre but i couldn't tell you because there are so many other motherfuckers shuffling and wheezing around that tiny frame that i didn't even bother.
Again?
Let's hate on protesters for making a statement with no real damage, but turn actually damaged art into a meme.
That was someone who didn’t actually intend to damage anything maliciously, though, just did so out of good intentions and complete ignorance.