stabby_cicada ,

It's often told how the Nazis banned and burned "degenerate" art - art with messages they didn't want people to hear.

It's less often told how the Nazis set up art galleries to celebrate art they found useful - art that supported their ideology or the cultural and social messages they wanted the German people to believe, and so was valuable to them.

If art serves the desires of the wealthy and powerful instead of the needs of the people, that art is fascist. Disrupting it is not an attack on free speech; It is a blow for liberty.

The message given by climate activists disrupting a play is far more important than the message given by the play itself. I expect the audience will remember the disruption for far longer than they would have remembered the play - particularly given the irony of the message of the activists paired with the original message of the play itself. And I hope they think deeply about that message.

deweydecibel ,

What's interesting is the show they interrupted was Enemy of the People. A show about a man punished for revealing a truth the people didn't want to hear. An inconvenient truth, you might say.

runner_g ,

I'm totally in support of disrupting "rich people" activities as a form of climate protest.

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