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Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.

Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.

The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.

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[–] rsuri@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah but what are they saying when they're talking? Most people are saying "look at these crazy climate people, something is clearly wrong with them". Maybe the protesters should do something that makes people say "maybe we should care more about climate change" instead.

This is a common problem I see with modern protests. Protesters of a certain other cause I won't name spray-painted my neighborhood. I try to be a logical person, and logically I'd like to think my perspective on the issue they were spraypainting about is unaffected. But I can't help but notice that on an emotional level, I really do not want to be on the same side as the people who disrespected me and my neighbors by spraypainting our neighborhood. To the point where if someone says they find that cause important, I actually feel a slight uncontrollable pang of disdain for them.

I don't think most people try to be as aware of how their emotions affects their thinking as I do.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

they said that about suffrage and women's suffrage too.

I feel like I'm starting to see way more sympathetic comments than I did a year ago.