More Pointless Protesting

[andy-hughes]

// Environmental protesters have thrown soup at the glass-protected Mona Lisa in France, calling for the right to "healthy and sustainable food".

The 16th Century painting by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous artworks, and is held at the Louvre in central Paris.

The Louvre said the work was behind protective glass and was not damaged.

Video shows two female protesters wearing T-shirts that read "food counterattack" throwing the liquid.

They then stand in front of the painting, saying: "What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food? //

I would suggest that the two are not actually mutually exclusive.

And if your protest is about the lack of food, what's the point of wasting food to make your protest, you could have popped out into the street, heated up the soup on a portable stove, and given it to a homeless person, while holding up a banner expressing your views, surely more effective.

This kind of action - throwing soup at a painting which is already behnind glass and cannot be damaged - shows the sheer mindlessness of some bigoted protest wonks.

I hope they are arrested and jailed, to deter others.

[andy-hughes]

Sorry - forgot the link -

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68121654

 

[jourdain2]

I agree completely, a-h.  But would the press have turned up in the numbers they did?

[andy-hughes]

jourdain - // I agree completely, a-h.  But would the press have turned up in the numbers they did? //

Probably not, which, since we get the media we deserve, says something about our society, that this kind of nonsense gets more headlines than simply pointing out a perceived injustice.

[Canary42]

if it hadn't been for those sort of activities, women may never have got the vote.  And jail didn't stop it.

[jno]

and to imagine the suffragettes slashed the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery in 1914. Talk about pointless, all it did was help women get the vote, a most retrograde step.

[jno]

snap, Canary

[andres]

Well it's being  discussed on here so it can't be pointless. 

[ToraToraTora]

Damn savages.....etc

[andy-hughes]

jno - // and to imagine the suffragettes slashed the Rokeby Venus in the National Gallery in 1914. Talk about pointless, all it did was help women get the vote, a most retrograde step. //

Suggesting that vandalism brings the requires results is a hell of a stretch.

As jourdain points out, it draws attention to the cause, but that's not the same as making the end result happen.

That's a bit of comforting hindsight, and I don't believe it had the desired effect then, any more than it will now.

[JACKSON-REACHER]

It was Campbell's Soup are they were disgruntled Warhol fans.

[ichkeria]

The fact the painting can't be damaged isn't the point. It's the publicity 

[naomi24]

And the publicity results in most people thinking they're idiots.  Clever!

[Khandro]

EU farmers are having a dreadful time and the future looks bleak unless policy changes happen (I can explain if you want).

It's a stupid and annoying act, but they knew the painting was behind bullet-proof glass so knew no harm beyond a clean up, would come of it.

France is very much an agriculture based country - more than the UK who import much of their food - so almost everyone is related to someone in the farming industry & feel strongly about what is happening.

p.s. I'm not condoning it, just trying to explain the high feelings running through the EU, & France particularly.

 

[douglas9401]

Souper.