The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” have sharply criticized climate change protesters who are attempting to destroy a Monet painting in Sweden this week, claiming that their actions are ruining everyone’s day, even those who agree with them on this matter.
Co-host Joy Behar called the recent climate stunt “annoying”, while co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed, calling it “counterproductive” for climate activists.
Whoopi Goldberg rebuked the protesters, declaring that destroying art “just isn’t your job” even when the earth suffers.
The points got here when the co-hosts discussed the creator of “Eat, Pray, Love”. Elizabeth Gilbert postponed the publication of her latest book “Snow Forest” because Ukrainian critics accused her of being set in Russia.
While the book has nothing to do with Ukraine’s current ordeal at the hands of its invaders, and merely portrayed Russia as a workplace, Gilbert delayed release indefinitely, citing the pain of the oppressed Ukrainian people.
The women didn’t agree with Gilbert, who bowed to the critics, and defended themselves to not suppress art simply based on the politics of the time.
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They then applied that time to a recent spate of climate activists attempting to vandalize great Western art in galleries across Europe.
Two climate activists were recently arrested in Stockholm, Sweden for dousing Claude Monet’s classic painting “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny” at the Swedish National Museum this week.
The painting was covered in glass, but museum staff reportedly analyzed the work to see if there was any damage.
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Attempted vandalism is one in every of many similar protests against climate changeaimed at shocking bystanders into taking the specter of climate change more seriously.
Although even the liberal ladies of The View insisted that the protests were pointless.
In the course of the discussion of Gilbert’s book, Behar brought up the difficulty of Monet’s failure, initially reporting on set that the painting was “destroyed” before correcting herself later within the segment.
While she generally agreed with the climate protests, Behar disapproved of this method. She said: “Now I agree with climate activism since the planet is on fire. We’ll have that smoke from Canada again. It doesn’t end there. But why are you using art?
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“It is so annoying that you simply use art as your truncheon. Don’t use art. Leave art alone – she declared, adding – Art is there to show you something, to light up something on the planet. This painting by Monet – what’s all of it about?”
After asking her co-hosts in the event that they see the purpose, Alyssa Farah Griffin he interjected that it was a “counterproductive” protest. She said: “No, and it’s counterproductive since it makes people portray them as ‘Look at these extremists’ when it’s a very important issue.”
After further discussion of Gilbert’s book, Goldberg criticized the attempted destruction of the Monet painting, saying, “I feel we should always watch out when people are available in and splash paint on things. That is my quibble with libraries: if you happen to don’t need to read a book or don’t need your kids to read a book, tell the librarian not to offer the book to your kids. But don’t stop my child from reading a book if my child desires to read it.”
She continued by saying, “I feel the identical about art. Don’t forbid me to look at it. Because you do not know, I’m an activist too, but now you have ruined my day. So why are you doing this?
She then rebuked the vandals, saying, “This just isn’t your job. It is your job to exit and make people understand why you will have to watch out with the earth, not destroy art that folks have been having fun with for years.”