Last week, crazed left-wing activists threw soup at the Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
This has become a common tactic for climate cultists because it gets them attention that they clearly can’t do without. It does nothing to further their cause, but that’s not the point. Even many liberals think this is stupid and wrong.
Except for the folks at the Los Angeles Times. The LA Times just went through a massive round of layoffs. If they continue to publish garbage like this, they will definitely have more layoffs in the near future.
I’m pretty proud to accomplish this during my second week of maternity leave…my first LA Times byline!
My opinion #climatejustice civil disobedience and diversity of tactics in the fight against the climate: https://t.co/UDkr0KGMtA
— Shannon Gibson (@ProfSMGibson) February 1, 2024
This is a real thing published by the newspaper:
How throwing soup at the Mona Lisa can help fight climate change
By combining radical forms of civil disobedience with more traditional actions, such as lobbying and state-sanctioned demonstrations, activists not only attract public attention but make less aggressive tactics more acceptable and perhaps more successful.
I study the role of disruptive policies and social movements in global climate politics and have chronicled the ebb, flow, and dynamism of climate activism. With today’s political institutions largely focused on short-term desires over long-term planetary health, and global climate negotiations moving too slowly to meet the challenge, climate activists have radically rethought their tactics.
…Criticisms of extreme activism often miss a crucial point: public reaction is not necessarily the activists’ ultimate goal. Often their purpose is to influence government and corporate decision makers.
Objections to acts of climate activism such as the latest food fight at the Louvre are understandable but may miss the point. The madness perceived by the protesters is in fact method.
The next time you see the journalists of the @latimes complain about layoffs, show them this title. https://t.co/vrnaKYub9p
— Chandra Sharma (@chandrasharma) February 2, 2024
It’s truly an amazing thing to see. The LA Times goes beyond parody.