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Mona Lisa: Protesters throw soup at da Vinci painting(www.bbc.co.uk)

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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.

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Right but these are climate change activists, not stupid tourists. The internet is going to hate on them anyway. The Mona Lisa! Sacre bleu!

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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.

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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?

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