The activists of the “last generation” probably don’t know what a Monet painting has to do with climate protection. But after her mashed potatoes attack, her concern is on everyone’s lips – thanks to the notoriously outraged, says Stefan Giese.
Everyone is talking about mashed potatoes at the moment, not as a mashed delicacy, but at least as a topic of conversation – and with it an action by supporters of the “Last Generation” climate protection movement. They just threw mashed potatoes at a painting by Claude Monet in Potsdam on Sunday to emphasize their demand for a more effective climate protection policy.
Stefan Giese’s opinion
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To be honest, the link between an Impressionist painting and efforts to save the world from climate catastrophe doesn’t immediately make sense to me. But it is unmistakable that the activists can book their mashed potato protest as a huge success in their sense.
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According to the museum, the painting – which is protected by a pane of glass – survived the action completely unscathed, waves of indignation ran high. They generate the hoped-for attention to the self-proclaimed “last generation” and their concerns. No accusation is big enough for the outraged to scourge the deed and the perpetrator. The FDP politician Frank Schäffler sees terrorists at work. The Bild newspaper asks whether the activists can be “sticked with one”. In the “social” networks, shreds fly in the face of highly heated discussions about mashed potatoes and climate protection.
This is how the mosquito becomes an elephant, which should be just as good for the mosquito as it is for the elephant. The members of the “Last Generation” are certainly already brooding over how to unleash an even greater wave of attention. You now know how to reliably trigger the notoriously outraged.
