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Just Stop Oil Vandalizes Van Gogh Painting to Protest Oil and Gas Industries
Vandalism and desecration of art and history are apparently okay when protesters deem the cause to be just
I’m not sure what Vincent Van Gogh or sunflowers have to do with climate change, but the climate activist group “Just Stop Oil” just linked the 19th-century-artist with their cause.
Perhaps Van Gogh was a climate change denier?
In a brazen act of vandalism and defiant virtue-signaling on steroids, two young activists with “Just Stop Oil” hurled the contents of two Heinz tomato soup cans over Van Gogh’s 1888 “Sunflowers” painting — a work of art estimated at $84.2 million.
This attack on art, history, civil order, and decency took place today at the National Gallery in London today at 11 am.
Many are defending the actions of these angry malcontents based on the seriousness of the climate change crisis. Whatever your views might be on climate change (or on the oil-and-gas industries), answer this question:
Do protesters get to determine what causes warrant vandalism, breaking the law, or possibly violence?
Today, it’s climate change. Before, it’s been election disputes. Before that, racism…
