To demonstrate for climate protection, activists stick themselves on the street or throw mashed potatoes at paintings. Some may understand this, but for others the radical protest goes too far. Just like Sophia Thomalla.
“For a long time I thought about whether I wanted to pay attention to the topic at all, because that’s exactly what you want,” Sophia Thomalla opens a long post on her Instagram page. Finally, the 33-year-old takes care of the matter – “with a greeting card that has washed”.
It’s about climate protection. Strictly speaking, the actions with which the alleged “last generation” has recently drawn attention to their concerns in an increasingly radical manner. It all started with demonstrators sticking themselves to busy streets, bringing traffic to a standstill. Now the activists followed up with tomato soup and mashed potatoes attacks on works of art by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet in London and Potsdam.
“You can be for climate protection and still have respect for the work of deceased artists,” says Sophia Thomalla. “Complaining about world hunger, but then throwing mashed potatoes around. What a double standard,” she adds.
You can also be for climate protection “and still not annoy the hard-working people by sticking myself on the streets like an insulted liverwurst,” Thomalla writes to the activists in the register. “They expect respect for their cause by behaving disrespectfully,” she analyzes and concludes: “It’s as stupid as the dark night.”
She wonders why the violations of the law in the name of climate protection are not properly punished, explains Thomalla and adds: “It’s such an unbelievable shame because the approach is actually not bad. There is a climate crisis and they are harming the actual climate activists, the good ones Having intentions, immense with their snotty behavior. That’s not a basis for a conversation, throwing themselves out on the street or throwing food around.”
Thomalla does not accept the fact that – as her post now shows – attention is generated with the actions as an argument. That’s no good “if nothing follows. It’s not thought through to the end. Nobody gets involved in a conversation like that.” In her Instagram story, the moderator and influencer once again clearly takes issue with the activists. “Idiot,” she blurts out.
Finally, Thomalla has another more or less practical tip in store: “Next time I would just leave the climate stickers where they were stuck. Politely ask the police to redirect and just wait. Believe me … the problem will solve itself. “
Another had recently expressed more understanding for the radical climate protection protests. The musician and “Live Aid” initiator Bob Geldof explained with regard to a tomato soup throw at a famous Vincent van Gogh painting in London: “The climate activists are 1000 percent right. And I support them 1000 percent. ” After all, the picture was not damaged. The action was just annoying. “And annoying is fine,” said Geldof.
