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s0nicfan posted...

As someone who believes in climate change, "We will continue to escalate our violence until our demands are met" isn't protesting. It's terrorism. Now, if you want to argue that terrorism is necessary here you go ahead and do that, but let's not mince words.

History says otherwise. The civil rights protestors were called terrorists at the time when they took to the streets and other violent protests.

masterpug53 posted...

I've said before many times that one of the few things that elevates humanity beyond the status of a particularly-successful virus is our shared art history. I'm also of the opinion that when you attempt to deface or destroy that art for the sake of your contemporary drama, you instantly lower yourself back down to 'virus' status (there are of course exceptions to this, but this instance ain't one of them).

I stand by what I said, but in this particular example I don't believe they even sought to destroy it. The painting has a sheet of glass in front of it, it's not as if they did any actual damage. So, as far as protests go, it's not exactly very disruptive or damaging.