“Climate activists in Vancouver said they threw maple syrup on a painting by one of Canada’s most iconic artists at the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday to bring attention to the global climate emergency”
“The group is demanding an end to the Coastal GasLink Pipeline project, currently under construction from Dawson Creek to Kitimat on B.C.’s north coast.
The group told media that they, along with other protesters around the world, are targeting works of art because too little is being done to stop the progress of human-caused climate change.”
Stunts like these are setting a precedent for more irresponsible ‘activism’ in the future. Eventually they will target a work of art that isn’t behind class or similarly protected and then their bullshit antics will destroy a work of art permanently.
“Police said no arrests have been made, but officers are investigating the incident.”
The authorities are gladhanding this incident, as usual it seems, with little or minor consequences for the perpetrators of criminal actions.
Canada needs to brace for more insipid activism as we have a class of children coming up who are not prepared to deal with reality or how to live peacefully in the current society.
Source: cbc.ca
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November 14, 2022 at 9:49 am
tildeb
How we think determines what we think. The current tolerance (and ‘gladhanding’) for those crossing boundaries and being destructive to ‘raise awareness’ in the name of something else has no end. So we know there’s a problem of reasoning here, a problem of how we are thinking about what’s going on.
I suppose once people start carrying out mass casualties in the name of ‘raising awareness’ in the name of something else, the better able will people of very small intelligence realize only the scope has changed in what is being destroyed and not the (apparently acceptable) reasoning that leads to it.
Just watch this boundary expand.
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November 14, 2022 at 11:28 am
lungta mtn
Amateurs and 50 years late
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
compare and contrast
an “art work ” vs “Convention on Biological Diversity concluded that: “Every day, up to 150 species are lost.”
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November 15, 2022 at 7:28 am
Infidel753
So now every time somebody is unhappy about something, they can go out and destroy something completely unrelated to the problem, that doesn’t belong to them? I’m unhappy about Putin invading Ukraine, so does that mean I can go to the house of one of these “activists” and smash all their windows?
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November 15, 2022 at 8:43 am
tildeb
Infidel753, the reasoning is the same. To quote that brilliant philosopher king, “Stupid is as stupid does.”
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