I mean you can’t really go throwing soup around and expect everyone to be ok with it. Anyway protesters get arrested all the time, it’s kinda the point.
With the prison sentences for activists who threw soup on "sunflowers", our society has affirmed that an illustration of nature is something we value.
Submitted 3 months ago by yesman@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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VulKendov@reddthat.com 3 months ago
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
If protesters get arrested for protesting, then what will we do if the government goes against the people?
Punishing protesting is a form of domination, something that only has its place in dictatorships.
VulKendov@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Protesters don’t necessarily get arrested for protesting, usually its for creating a disturbance, like blocking roads and bridges, and doing weird shit like throwing tomato soup on paintings and gluing yourself to a museum wall. Protesting in this way is meant to be provocative, they know they’ll get arrested, but it gets on the news and gets people talking.
Personally I’m not sure why they targeted painting in an art museum specifically, they were protesting the extraction of oil. Maybe because they were oil paintings?
MeatPilot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I do agree something needs done aout climate change. But as someone who deeply appreciates art and understands how important it is to preserve it, I think protesters have a lot more avenue’s to gain attention AND actually target something related to climate change.
Why not go throw soup on a representative or maybe throw soup on the door of a famous municipal building. Target government, they ultimately make the decisions.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The issue is that does not get as much attention and publicity.
The problem with their approach however is that it makes everyone hate them.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I don’t think is a matter of publicity.
Every single human being on the planet knows what climate change is. Some people may not believe in it but they surely know what it is.
IMHO the solution comes from (real) education on the matter. We are past publicity, we need schooling on both causes, consequences and solutions to climate change.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I believe that particular “activist” group has been found to be related to oil companies (taking money from them). And there was assumptions that they were just trying to throw bad reputation into the movement.
Take it with a grain of salt because this is just something I remember reading some time ago and I don’t have any sources on it.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Humans value art. Specially irreplaceable art with significant historical importance.
masquenox@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is one hell of an incoherent logical leap.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
They threw soup on Sunflowers?? But it had glass over it right?
Atin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That is what happens when you ruin things that aren’t yours.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Oil companies are ruining the planet, yet what happens to them?
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Then throw soup at them
Atin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Was the painting owned by Shell?
ICastFist@programming.dev 3 months ago
They have money, activists don’t
Ifera@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Honestly, I agree with you and with them. They chose said painting because it is incredibly expensive, so it represents how much people are willing to pay for a painting, while not doing an effort to care for the world we live in.
According to my sources, another reason was that the painting was encased in glass, so they saw it as a great target for the stunt, to get attention, while not causing any damage to the actual work of art.
So, the message being “Look at how much you people’s care about us “destroying” a work of art, but nobody gives a shit about the people who are destroying the world”.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 months ago
And lo and behold, we’re also willing to spend money as a society to keep these scum locked up.
Happy to pay my part of that bill.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 months ago
Like the environment? How many BP execs are in prison?
doom_and_gloom@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Now if only we valued nature itself, or our continued ability to appreciate either.
Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Activists are not nice!
/s
db2@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Our society has affirmed that antisocial shit is antithetic to the concept of society.
Now if we could only get the sociopathic politicians/finance bros to understand that we’d be in pretty good shape.
Isoprenoid@programming.dev 3 months ago
The sociopathic politicians and finance bros mostly outsource and monetise antisocial behaviour.
It called the media and social media. /edgy