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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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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.

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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.

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