I would disagree that it’s widely hated, I only hear the worst, most obnoxious assholes talking about how much they hate it. If anyone wants to say it’s “widely hated” they’ll need to give some numbers.

Also, anyone making a good faith effort to combat climate change in any way gets a pass from me, as long as we don’t yet know it’s actually counter-productive.

Anyone who actually cares about climate change would understand that there’s no measure too ridiculous. If throwing soup on a painting’s glass cover moves the needle on climate change even a millionth of a percent towards a solution then great, fucking do it. Even if it makes no difference at all fuck it, you’re trying, I support you. Fuck the paintings, they won’t matter if nobody’s left to look at or preserve them. That’s the point of that particular protest, to ask “Why do you care about this painting more than our climate?”

These people hate on activism despite never having any evidence that it’s counter-productive beyond “I reckon it is,” which just means they don’t like it. They don’t care about climate change or the human race, they’re just here to shit on activists because they’ve been taught to hate them by fossil fuel industry propaganda.

So these aren’t persuadable people, we shouldn’t care about what they have to say, fuck 'em.